Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Michigan

Measured against the national total for each industry, Michigan is strongest in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, with 21.4% of the US jobs, and weakest in fruit and vegetable preserving, with 4.3%. The state holds 2.14% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Wayne holds 54.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 73.4%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Michigan stands 1,360 jobs behind Nevada and 2,472 ahead of Kentucky. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Michigan sits 1.8 times above that line.

• The average Michigan warehousing site employs 71 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 87 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.09 people for every warehousing job in Michigan; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 156,335 jobs in Michigan, 19.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 11,060 jobs, 3.2% of the national 350,886, which makes it 10th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 2,159 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 Michigan has 17.2% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Michigan is 13th of fifty, and by average site size it is 31st, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Michigan ranks 15th with 44,404 jobs, 2.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 29,924 of the state's 40,753 warehousing jobs, so 10,829 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Michigan often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Michigan's 40,753, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

The table sets Michigan 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, Michigan would have to lose 17,542; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 270.
• Its 2.14% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.50% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.17: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 576 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 6,912 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Michigan fall in 480 to 499, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 111,465 jobs, 2.74 for every warehousing job and 194 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 44,404 food manufacturing jobs by the 576 warehousing sites gives 77.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.14% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 47 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 576 Michigan sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 46,928 warehousing jobs, which is 6,175 more than the 40,753 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Indiana has 26,753 more warehousing jobs, 37 fewer sites and 2,070 more food manufacturing jobs than Michigan, so a Indiana dock averages 125.2 jobs per site against 70.8 here, and 0.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• Ohio has 57,601 more warehousing jobs, 446 more sites and 21,716 more food manufacturing jobs than Michigan, so a Ohio dock averages 96.2 jobs per site against 70.8 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• Wisconsin has 7,699 fewer warehousing jobs, 148 fewer sites and 37,589 more food manufacturing jobs than Michigan, so a Wisconsin dock averages 77.2 jobs per site against 70.8 here, and 2.48 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 111,465 in Michigan, 21.4% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.74 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 44,870 in Michigan, 15.5% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.10 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 32,916 in Michigan, 5.7% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.81 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 3,158 in Michigan, 4.3% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.08 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 7,444 in Michigan, 4.3% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.18 of these jobs.

• Wayne is 1st of the counties shown with 22,255 warehousing jobs, which is 314.6 times the average Michigan site headcount of 71 and 1.17% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Oakland is 2nd of the counties shown with 4,113 warehousing jobs, which is 58.1 times the average Michigan site headcount of 71 and 0.22% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Macomb is 3rd of the counties shown with 3,556 warehousing jobs, which is 50.3 times the average Michigan site headcount of 71 and 0.19% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Michigan begin with 480 to 499.
• 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.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.