Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Maine

Measured against the national total for each industry, Maine is strongest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 0.79% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.32%. The state holds 0.2% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Cumberland holds 45.9% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 67.3%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Maine stands 1,378 jobs behind Rhode Island and 143 ahead of West Virginia. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Maine sits at 16 percent of that line.

• The average Maine warehousing site employs 52 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 64 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.50 people for every warehousing job in Maine; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 528 jobs in Maine, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,783 jobs, 0.79% of the national 350,886, which makes it 27th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,120 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 Maine has 1.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Maine is 41st of fifty, and by average site size it is 38th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Maine ranks 43rd with 5,673 jobs, 0.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 2,541 of the state's 3,774 warehousing jobs, so 1,233 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Maine 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 Maine often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Maine's 3,774, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: New Hampshire.

The table sets Maine 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, Maine would need to add 19,437; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 234.
• Its 0.2% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.32% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.61: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 72 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 864 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Maine fall in 039 to 049, 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 2,783 jobs, 0.74 for every warehousing job and 39 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 5,673 food manufacturing jobs by the 72 warehousing sites gives 78.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.2% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 500 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 72 Maine sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 5,866 warehousing jobs, which is 2,092 more than the 3,774 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• New Hampshire has 491 fewer warehousing jobs, 24 more sites and 2,899 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Maine, so a New Hampshire dock averages 34.2 jobs per site against 52.4 here, and 0.84 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.50.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 2,783 in Maine, 0.79% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.74 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 5,673 in Maine, 0.32% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.50 of these jobs.

• Cumberland is 1st of the counties shown with 1,731 warehousing jobs, which is 33.0 times the average Maine site headcount of 52 and 0.09% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Kennebec is 2nd of the counties shown with 419 warehousing jobs, which is 8.0 times the average Maine site headcount of 52 and 0.02% of all US warehousing jobs.
• York is 3rd of the counties shown with 391 warehousing jobs, which is 7.5 times the average Maine site headcount of 52 and 0.02% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Maine begin with 039 to 049.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.
• 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.