Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Maryland

Measured against the national total for each industry, Maryland is strongest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 2.6% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 1.6%. The state holds 1.58% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Harford holds 11.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 26.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 2 metro markets in Maryland. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Maryland stands 3,088 jobs behind Wisconsin and 2,816 ahead of South Carolina. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Maryland sits 1.3 times above that line.

• The average Maryland warehousing site employs 122 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.5 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.65 people for every warehousing job in Maryland; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 465 jobs in Maryland, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 9,019 jobs, 2.6% of the national 350,886, which makes it 12th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Maryland has 12.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Maryland is 32nd of fifty, and by average site size it is 5th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Maryland ranks 32nd with 19,600 jobs, 1.1% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 7,941 of the state's 29,966 warehousing jobs, so 22,025 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Maryland in cold storage capacity. 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 Maryland often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Maryland's 29,966, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

The table sets Maryland 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, Maryland would have to lose 6,755; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 61.
• Its 1.58% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.10% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.70: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 245 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 2,940 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Maryland fall in 206 to 212 and 214 to 219, 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 9,019 jobs, 0.30 for every warehousing job and 37 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 19,600 food manufacturing jobs by the 245 warehousing sites gives 80.0; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.58% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 63 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 245 Maryland sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 19,961 warehousing jobs, which is 10,005 fewer than the 29,966 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Delaware has 17,471 fewer warehousing jobs, 111 fewer sites and 8,443 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Maryland, so a Delaware dock averages 93.2 jobs per site against 122.3 here, and 0.89 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.65.
• Pennsylvania has 93,515 more warehousing jobs, 917 more sites and 62,938 more food manufacturing jobs than Maryland, so a Pennsylvania dock averages 106.3 jobs per site against 122.3 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.65.
• Virginia has 21,157 more warehousing jobs, 284 more sites and 13,084 more food manufacturing jobs than Maryland, so a Virginia dock averages 96.6 jobs per site against 122.3 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.65.
• West Virginia has 26,335 fewer warehousing jobs, 145 fewer sites and 15,964 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Maryland, so a West Virginia dock averages 36.3 jobs per site against 122.3 here, and 1.00 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.65.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 9,019 in Maryland, 2.6% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.30 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 29,966 in Maryland, 1.6% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Harford is 1st of the counties shown with 3,435 warehousing jobs, which is 28.1 times the average Maryland site headcount of 122 and 0.18% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Prince George's is 2nd of the counties shown with 2,664 warehousing jobs, which is 21.8 times the average Maryland site headcount of 122 and 0.14% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Washington is 3rd of the counties shown with 1,842 warehousing jobs, which is 15.1 times the average Maryland site headcount of 122 and 0.10% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Maryland begin with 206 to 212 and 214 to 219.
• 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.