Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Indiana

Measured against the national total for each industry, Indiana is strongest in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, with 10.0% of the US jobs, and weakest in chemical manufacturing, with 4.3%. The state holds 3.55% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Boone holds 18.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 47.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Indiana stands 8,646 jobs behind New Jersey and 12,135 ahead of New York. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Indiana sits 2.9 times above that line.

• The average Indiana warehousing site employs 125 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.5 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.69 people for every warehousing job in Indiana; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 73,215 jobs in Indiana, 9.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 23,709 jobs, 6.8% of the national 350,886, which makes it 6th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,452 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 Indiana has 28.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Indiana is 14th of fifty, and by average site size it is 4th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Indiana ranks 13th with 46,474 jobs, 2.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 32,269 of the state's 67,506 warehousing jobs, so 35,237 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Indiana often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Indiana's 67,506, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio.

The table sets Indiana 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, Indiana would have to lose 44,295; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 233.
• Its 3.55% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.62% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.74: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 539 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 6,468 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Indiana fall in 460 to 479, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 52,146 jobs, 0.77 for every warehousing job and 97 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 46,474 food manufacturing jobs by the 539 warehousing sites gives 86.2; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 3.55% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 28 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 539 Indiana sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 43,914 warehousing jobs, which is 23,592 fewer than the 67,506 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Illinois has 12,565 more warehousing jobs, 325 more sites and 51,826 more food manufacturing jobs than Indiana, so a Illinois dock averages 92.7 jobs per site against 125.2 here, and 1.23 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.69.
• Kentucky has 29,225 fewer warehousing jobs, 109 fewer sites and 15,201 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Indiana, so a Kentucky dock averages 89.0 jobs per site against 125.2 here, and 0.82 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.69.
• Michigan has 26,753 fewer warehousing jobs, 37 more sites and 2,070 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Indiana, so a Michigan dock averages 70.8 jobs per site against 125.2 here, and 1.09 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.69.
• Ohio has 30,848 more warehousing jobs, 483 more sites and 19,646 more food manufacturing jobs than Indiana, so a Ohio dock averages 96.2 jobs per site against 125.2 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.69.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 52,146 in Indiana, 10.0% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.77 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 21,069 in Indiana, 7.3% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.31 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 23,709 in Indiana, 6.8% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.35 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 33,122 in Indiana, 5.8% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.49 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 38,178 in Indiana, 4.3% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.57 of these jobs.

• Boone is 1st of the counties shown with 12,552 warehousing jobs, which is 100.2 times the average Indiana site headcount of 125 and 0.66% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Hendricks is 2nd of the counties shown with 11,774 warehousing jobs, which is 94.0 times the average Indiana site headcount of 125 and 0.62% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Marion is 3rd of the counties shown with 7,943 warehousing jobs, which is 63.4 times the average Indiana site headcount of 125 and 0.42% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Indiana begin with 460 to 479.
• 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.