Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Minnesota

Measured against the national total for each industry, Minnesota is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 3.1% of the US jobs, and weakest in plastics product manufacturing, with 2.5%. The state holds 0.94% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Hennepin holds 20.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 30.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Minnesota stands 1,748 jobs behind Oklahoma and 1,171 ahead of Oregon. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Minnesota sits at 77 percent of that line.

• The average Minnesota warehousing site employs 57 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 71 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 2.67 people for every warehousing job in Minnesota; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 2,028 jobs in Minnesota, 0.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 5,458 jobs, 1.6% of the national 350,886, which makes it 18th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 5,859 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 Minnesota has 7.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Minnesota is 24th of fifty, and by average site size it is 36th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Minnesota ranks 12th with 47,829 jobs, 2.7% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 5,514 of the state's 17,921 warehousing jobs, so 12,407 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Minnesota 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 Minnesota often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Minnesota's 17,921, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The table sets Minnesota 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, Minnesota would need to add 5,290; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 6.
• Its 0.94% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.69% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 2.86: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 312 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,744 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Minnesota fall in 550 to 567, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Meat and poultry processing is the largest listed industry on this page at 17,525 jobs, 0.98 for every warehousing job and 56 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 47,829 food manufacturing jobs by the 312 warehousing sites gives 153.3; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.94% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 106 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 312 Minnesota sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 25,419 warehousing jobs, which is 7,498 more than the 17,921 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Iowa has 1,903 more warehousing jobs, 26 more sites and 12,332 more food manufacturing jobs than Minnesota, so a Iowa dock averages 58.7 jobs per site against 57.4 here, and 3.03 food jobs for each warehousing job against 2.67.
• North Dakota has 16,483 fewer warehousing jobs, 251 fewer sites and 42,265 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Minnesota, so a North Dakota dock averages 23.6 jobs per site against 57.4 here, and 3.87 food jobs for each warehousing job against 2.67.
• South Dakota has 14,652 fewer warehousing jobs, 270 fewer sites and 36,963 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Minnesota, so a South Dakota dock averages 77.8 jobs per site against 57.4 here, and 3.32 food jobs for each warehousing job against 2.67.
• Wisconsin has 15,133 more warehousing jobs, 116 more sites and 34,164 more food manufacturing jobs than Minnesota, so a Wisconsin dock averages 77.2 jobs per site against 57.4 here, and 2.48 food jobs for each warehousing job against 2.67.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 17,525 in Minnesota, 3.1% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.98 of these jobs.
• Dairy product manufacturing employs 5,085 in Minnesota, 3.0% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.28 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 4,721 in Minnesota, 2.7% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.26 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 47,829 in Minnesota, 2.7% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.67 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 14,511 in Minnesota, 2.5% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.81 of these jobs.

• Hennepin is 1st of the counties shown with 3,616 warehousing jobs, which is 63.0 times the average Minnesota site headcount of 57 and 0.19% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Anoka is 2nd of the counties shown with 1,119 warehousing jobs, which is 19.5 times the average Minnesota site headcount of 57 and 0.06% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Washington is 3rd of the counties shown with 779 warehousing jobs, which is 13.6 times the average Minnesota site headcount of 57 and 0.04% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Minnesota begin with 550 to 567.
• 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.