Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Kansas

Measured against the national total for each industry, Kansas is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 3.5% of the US jobs, and weakest in plastics product manufacturing, with 1.3%. The state holds 1.11% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Johnson holds 31.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 71.3%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Kansas stands 722 jobs behind Alabama and 463 ahead of Massachusetts. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Kansas sits at 91 percent of that line.

• The average Kansas warehousing site employs 72 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 89 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.79 people for every warehousing job in Kansas; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 2,329 jobs in Kansas, 0.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 4,682 jobs, 1.3% of the national 350,886, which makes it 21st of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,174 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 Kansas has 8.9% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Kansas is 28th of fifty, and by average site size it is 28th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Kansas ranks 21st with 37,772 jobs, 2.1% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 15,094 of the state's 21,158 warehousing jobs, so 6,064 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Kansas in motor vehicle assembly. Those gaps are in the data, which hides or omits small cells to protect privacy; they are not a claim that the industry is absent, and a missing row above means the same.

Loads for Kansas often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Kansas's 21,158, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

The table sets Kansas 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, Kansas would need to add 2,053; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 13.
• Its 1.11% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.13% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.91: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 293 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,516 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Kansas fall in 660 to 679, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Meat and poultry processing is the largest listed industry on this page at 19,716 jobs, 0.93 for every warehousing job and 67 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 37,772 food manufacturing jobs by the 293 warehousing sites gives 128.9; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.11% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 90 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 293 Kansas sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 23,871 warehousing jobs, which is 2,713 more than the 21,158 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Colorado, Kansas has 3,383 fewer warehousing jobs, 11 fewer sites and 11,203 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Colorado site holds 80.7 jobs and the typical Kansas site 72.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.79 here and 1.08 there.
• Against Missouri, Kansas has 5,568 fewer warehousing jobs, 230 fewer sites and 7,496 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Missouri site holds 51.1 jobs and the typical Kansas site 72.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.79 here and 1.69 there.
• Against Nebraska, Kansas has 12,912 more warehousing jobs, 137 more sites and 4,167 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Nebraska site holds 52.9 jobs and the typical Kansas site 72.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.79 here and 5.09 there.
• Against Oklahoma, Kansas has 1,489 more warehousing jobs, 107 more sites and 17,725 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oklahoma site holds 105.7 jobs and the typical Kansas site 72.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.79 here and 1.02 there.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 19,716 in Kansas, 3.5% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.93 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 37,772 in Kansas, 2.1% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.79 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 4,682 in Kansas, 1.3% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.22 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 7,339 in Kansas, 1.3% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.35 of these jobs.

• Johnson is 1st of the counties shown with 6,642 warehousing jobs, which is 92.0 times the average Kansas site headcount of 72 and 0.35% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Wyandotte is 2nd of the counties shown with 6,378 warehousing jobs, which is 88.3 times the average Kansas site headcount of 72 and 0.34% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Shawnee is 3rd of the counties shown with 2,074 warehousing jobs, which is 28.7 times the average Kansas site headcount of 72 and 0.11% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Kansas begin with 660 to 679.
• 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.