Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Kentucky

Measured against the national total for each industry, Kentucky is strongest in motor vehicle manufacturing, with 8.1% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 2.0%. The state holds 2.01% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Boone holds 23.8% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 61.7%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Kentucky stands 2,472 jobs behind Michigan and 1,590 ahead of Washington. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Kentucky sits 1.6 times above that line.

• The average Kentucky warehousing site employs 89 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.82 people for every warehousing job in Kentucky; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 55,569 jobs in Kentucky, 6.9% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,045 jobs, 0.58% of the national 350,886, which makes it 31st of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 627 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 Kentucky has 16.2% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Kentucky is 19th of fifty, and by average site size it is 13th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Kentucky ranks 24th with 31,273 jobs, 1.8% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 23,622 of the state's 38,281 warehousing jobs, so 14,659 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Kentucky often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Kentucky's 38,281, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The table sets Kentucky 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, Kentucky would have to lose 15,070; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 124.
• Its 2.01% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.76% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.88: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 430 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 5,160 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Kentucky fall in 400 to 427, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 23,308 jobs, 0.61 for every warehousing job and 54 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 31,273 food manufacturing jobs by the 430 warehousing sites gives 72.7; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.01% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 50 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 430 Kentucky sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 35,033 warehousing jobs, which is 3,248 fewer than the 38,281 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Illinois has 41,790 more warehousing jobs, 434 more sites and 67,027 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Illinois dock averages 92.7 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 1.23 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• Indiana has 29,225 more warehousing jobs, 109 more sites and 15,201 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Indiana dock averages 125.2 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 0.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• Missouri has 11,555 fewer warehousing jobs, 93 more sites and 13,995 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Missouri dock averages 51.1 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 1.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• Ohio has 60,073 more warehousing jobs, 592 more sites and 34,847 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Ohio dock averages 96.2 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• Tennessee has 15,146 more warehousing jobs, 212 more sites and 9,047 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Tennessee dock averages 83.2 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 0.75 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• Virginia has 12,842 more warehousing jobs, 99 more sites and 1,411 more food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a Virginia dock averages 96.6 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.
• West Virginia has 34,650 fewer warehousing jobs, 330 fewer sites and 27,637 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Kentucky, so a West Virginia dock averages 36.3 jobs per site against 89.0 here, and 1.00 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.82.

• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 23,308 in Kentucky, 8.1% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.61 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 32,261 in Kentucky, 6.2% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.84 of these jobs.
• Beverage manufacturing employs 10,105 in Kentucky, 3.2% of the 316,938 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.26 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 13,820 in Kentucky, 2.4% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.36 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 38,281 in Kentucky, 2.0% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Boone is 1st of the counties shown with 9,121 warehousing jobs, which is 102.5 times the average Kentucky site headcount of 89 and 0.48% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Bullitt is 2nd of the counties shown with 7,642 warehousing jobs, which is 85.8 times the average Kentucky site headcount of 89 and 0.40% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Jefferson is 3rd of the counties shown with 6,859 warehousing jobs, which is 77.0 times the average Kentucky site headcount of 89 and 0.36% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Kentucky begin with 400 to 427.
• 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.