Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Illinois

Measured against the national total for each industry, Illinois is strongest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 6.9% of the US jobs, and weakest in chemical manufacturing, with 5.5%. The state holds 4.21% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Will holds 31.7% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 62.2%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists one metro market in Illinois. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Illinois stands 4,659 jobs behind Georgia and 3,919 ahead of New Jersey. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Illinois sits 3.4 times above that line.

• The average Illinois warehousing site employs 93 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.23 people for every warehousing job in Illinois; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 33,812 jobs in Illinois, 4.2% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 24,257 jobs, 6.9% of the national 350,886, which makes it 5th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,373 thousand cubic feet of gross refrigerated capacity for every thousand warehousing jobs here, against 2,098 thousand for the country as a whole.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Illinois has 33.8% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Illinois is 8th of fifty, and by average site size it is 11th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Illinois ranks 3rd with 98,300 jobs, 5.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 49,782 of the state's 80,071 warehousing jobs, so 30,289 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Every measure on this page has a figure for Illinois: warehousing, food, pharmaceutical, motor vehicle assembly and parts, counties and cold storage.

Loads for Illinois often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Illinois's 80,071, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin.

The table sets Illinois beside each state that borders it on the same five measures: establishments, jobs per site, food manufacturing jobs for each warehousing job, share of the US warehousing total, and sites for every thousand warehousing jobs. All of it is arithmetic on the BLS counts named in the sources.

• To reach the median state's 23,211 warehousing jobs, Illinois would have to lose 56,860; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 558.
• Its 4.21% of US warehousing jobs compares with 5.54% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.32: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 864 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 10,368 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Illinois fall in 600 to 629, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 24,257 jobs, 0.30 for every warehousing job and 28 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 98,300 food manufacturing jobs by the 864 warehousing sites gives 113.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 4.21% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 24 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 864 Illinois sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 70,392 warehousing jobs, which is 9,679 fewer than the 80,071 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Indiana, Illinois has 12,565 more warehousing jobs, 325 more sites and 51,826 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Indiana site holds 125.2 jobs and the typical Illinois site 92.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.23 here and 0.69 there.
• Against Iowa, Illinois has 60,247 more warehousing jobs, 526 more sites and 38,139 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Iowa site holds 58.7 jobs and the typical Illinois site 92.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.23 here and 3.03 there.
• Against Kentucky, Illinois has 41,790 more warehousing jobs, 434 more sites and 67,027 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kentucky site holds 89.0 jobs and the typical Illinois site 92.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.23 here and 0.82 there.
• Against Missouri, Illinois has 53,345 more warehousing jobs, 341 more sites and 53,032 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Missouri site holds 51.1 jobs and the typical Illinois site 92.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.23 here and 1.69 there.
• Against Wisconsin, Illinois has 47,017 more warehousing jobs, 436 more sites and 16,307 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Wisconsin site holds 77.2 jobs and the typical Illinois site 92.7; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.23 here and 2.48 there.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 24,257 in Illinois, 6.9% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.30 of these jobs.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 48,629 in Illinois, 5.9% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.61 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 4,095 in Illinois, 5.6% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.05 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 98,300 in Illinois, 5.5% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.23 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 48,745 in Illinois, 5.5% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.61 of these jobs.

• Will is 1st of the counties shown with 25,357 warehousing jobs, which is 273.6 times the average Illinois site headcount of 93 and 1.33% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Cook is 2nd of the counties shown with 16,057 warehousing jobs, which is 173.3 times the average Illinois site headcount of 93 and 0.84% of all US warehousing jobs.
• DuPage is 3rd of the counties shown with 8,368 warehousing jobs, which is 90.3 times the average Illinois site headcount of 93 and 0.44% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Illinois begin with 600 to 629.
• The footprint and the number of pallets, or the number of trailers.
• The three ratings the load needs, or a description of the load.
• Resin and colourant papers wanted, if the pallets touch food or pharma product.
• The month you want them, and whether a standing supply follows.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.