Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Louisiana

Measured against the national total for each industry, Louisiana is strongest in chemical manufacturing, with 3.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.96%. The state holds 0.81% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

East Baton Rouge holds 25.8% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 51.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Louisiana stands 312 jobs behind Arkansas and 1,629 ahead of Utah. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Louisiana sits at 66 percent of that line.

• The average Louisiana warehousing site employs 47 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 58 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.11 people for every warehousing job in Louisiana; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 307 jobs in Louisiana, 0.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 748 jobs, 0.21% of the national 350,886, which makes it 40th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 522 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 Louisiana has 6.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Louisiana is 23rd of fifty, and by average site size it is 42nd, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Louisiana ranks 34th with 16,970 jobs, 1.0% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 7,888 of the state's 15,312 warehousing jobs, so 7,424 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Louisiana 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 Louisiana often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Louisiana's 15,312, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas.

The table sets Louisiana 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, Louisiana would need to add 7,899; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 20.
• Its 0.81% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.96% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.19: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 326 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,912 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Louisiana fall in 700 to 714, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Chemical manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 28,918 jobs, 1.89 for every warehousing job and 89 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 16,970 food manufacturing jobs by the 326 warehousing sites gives 52.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.81% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 123 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 326 Louisiana sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 26,560 warehousing jobs, which is 11,248 more than the 15,312 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Arkansas, Louisiana has 312 fewer warehousing jobs, 108 more sites and 34,829 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arkansas site holds 71.7 jobs and the typical Louisiana site 47.0; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.11 here and 3.32 there.
• Against Mississippi, Louisiana has 10,142 fewer warehousing jobs, 21 more sites and 7,757 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Mississippi site holds 83.5 jobs and the typical Louisiana site 47.0; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.11 here and 0.97 there.
• Against Texas, Louisiana has 160,267 fewer warehousing jobs, 1,848 fewer sites and 95,118 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Texas site holds 80.8 jobs and the typical Louisiana site 47.0; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.11 here and 0.64 there.

• Chemical manufacturing employs 28,918 in Louisiana, 3.2% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.89 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 16,970 in Louisiana, 0.96% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.11 of these jobs.

• East Baton Rouge is 1st of the counties shown with 3,948 warehousing jobs, which is 84.1 times the average Louisiana site headcount of 47 and 0.21% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Caddo is 2nd of the counties shown with 2,610 warehousing jobs, which is 55.6 times the average Louisiana site headcount of 47 and 0.14% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Tangipahoa is 3rd of the counties shown with 1,330 warehousing jobs, which is 28.3 times the average Louisiana site headcount of 47 and 0.07% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Louisiana begin with 700 to 714.
• 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.