Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Mississippi

Measured against the national total for each industry, Mississippi is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 3.4% of the US jobs, and weakest in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, with 0.95%. The state holds 1.34% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

DeSoto holds 45.7% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 77.6%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Mississippi stands 1,272 jobs behind Missouri and 327 ahead of Connecticut. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Mississippi sits 1.1 times above that line.

• The average Mississippi warehousing site employs 83 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.0 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.97 people for every warehousing job in Mississippi; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 10,671 jobs in Mississippi, 1.3% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 1,138 jobs, 0.32% of the national 350,886, which makes it 36th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 550 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 Mississippi has 10.7% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Mississippi is 26th of fifty, and by average site size it is 19th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Mississippi ranks 28th with 24,727 jobs, 1.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 19,749 of the state's 25,454 warehousing jobs, so 5,705 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Mississippi often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Mississippi's 25,454, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

The table sets Mississippi 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, Mississippi would have to lose 2,243; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 1.
• Its 1.34% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.39% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.04: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 305 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,660 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Mississippi fall in 386 to 397, 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 18,648 jobs, 0.73 for every warehousing job and 61 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 24,727 food manufacturing jobs by the 305 warehousing sites gives 81.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.34% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 75 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 305 Mississippi sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 24,849 warehousing jobs, which is 605 fewer than the 25,454 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Alabama, Mississippi has 3,574 more warehousing jobs, 1 fewer sites and 9,001 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Alabama site holds 71.5 jobs and the typical Mississippi site 83.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.97 here and 1.54 there.
• Against Arkansas, Mississippi has 9,830 more warehousing jobs, 87 more sites and 27,072 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arkansas site holds 71.7 jobs and the typical Mississippi site 83.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.97 here and 3.32 there.
• Against Louisiana, Mississippi has 10,142 more warehousing jobs, 21 fewer sites and 7,757 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Louisiana site holds 47.0 jobs and the typical Mississippi site 83.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.97 here and 1.11 there.
• Against Tennessee, Mississippi has 27,973 fewer warehousing jobs, 337 fewer sites and 15,593 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Tennessee site holds 83.2 jobs and the typical Mississippi site 83.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.97 here and 0.75 there.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 18,648 in Mississippi, 3.4% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.73 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 5,745 in Mississippi, 2.0% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.23 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 24,727 in Mississippi, 1.4% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.97 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 25,454 in Mississippi, 1.3% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 4,926 in Mississippi, 0.95% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.19 of these jobs.

• DeSoto is 1st of the counties shown with 11,634 warehousing jobs, which is 139.4 times the average Mississippi site headcount of 83 and 0.61% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Madison is 2nd of the counties shown with 4,239 warehousing jobs, which is 50.8 times the average Mississippi site headcount of 83 and 0.22% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Marshall is 3rd of the counties shown with 3,876 warehousing jobs, which is 46.4 times the average Mississippi site headcount of 83 and 0.20% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Mississippi begin with 386 to 397.
• 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.