Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Missouri

Measured against the national total for each industry, Missouri is strongest in motor vehicle manufacturing, with 4.6% of the US jobs, and weakest in chemical manufacturing, with 2.6%. The state holds 1.41% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

St. Charles holds 21.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 44.6%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Missouri stands 424 jobs behind South Carolina and 1,272 ahead of Mississippi. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Missouri sits 1.2 times above that line.

• The average Missouri warehousing site employs 51 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 63 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.69 people for every warehousing job in Missouri; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 21,650 jobs in Missouri, 2.7% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 6,745 jobs, 1.9% of the national 350,886, which makes it 15th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 3,891 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 Missouri has 11.3% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Missouri is 17th of fifty, and by average site size it is 40th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Missouri ranks 14th with 45,268 jobs, 2.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 11,912 of the state's 26,726 warehousing jobs, so 14,814 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Missouri often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Missouri's 26,726, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

The table sets Missouri 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, Missouri would have to lose 3,515; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 217.
• Its 1.41% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.55% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.81: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 523 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 6,276 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Missouri fall in 630 to 658, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 13,274 jobs, 0.50 for every warehousing job and 25 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 45,268 food manufacturing jobs by the 523 warehousing sites gives 86.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.41% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 71 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 523 Missouri sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 42,610 warehousing jobs, which is 15,884 more than the 26,726 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Arkansas, Missouri has 11,102 more warehousing jobs, 305 more sites and 6,531 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arkansas site holds 71.7 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 3.32 there.
• Against Iowa, Missouri has 6,902 more warehousing jobs, 185 more sites and 14,893 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Iowa site holds 58.7 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 3.03 there.
• Against Illinois, Missouri has 53,345 fewer warehousing jobs, 341 fewer sites and 53,032 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Illinois site holds 92.7 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 1.23 there.
• Against Kansas, Missouri has 5,568 more warehousing jobs, 230 more sites and 7,496 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kansas site holds 72.2 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 1.79 there.
• Against Kentucky, Missouri has 11,555 fewer warehousing jobs, 93 more sites and 13,995 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kentucky site holds 89.0 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 0.82 there.
• Against Nebraska, Missouri has 18,480 more warehousing jobs, 367 more sites and 3,329 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Nebraska site holds 52.9 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 5.09 there.
• Against Oklahoma, Missouri has 7,057 more warehousing jobs, 337 more sites and 25,221 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oklahoma site holds 105.7 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 1.02 there.
• Against Tennessee, Missouri has 26,701 fewer warehousing jobs, 119 fewer sites and 4,948 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Tennessee site holds 83.2 jobs and the typical Missouri site 51.1; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.69 here and 0.75 there.

• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 13,274 in Missouri, 4.6% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.50 of these jobs.
• Dairy product manufacturing employs 6,107 in Missouri, 3.6% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.23 of these jobs.
• Meat and poultry processing employs 16,925 in Missouri, 3.0% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.63 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 4,877 in Missouri, 2.8% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.18 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 22,970 in Missouri, 2.6% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.86 of these jobs.

• St. Charles is 1st of the counties shown with 5,782 warehousing jobs, which is 113.1 times the average Missouri site headcount of 51 and 0.30% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Cass is 2nd of the counties shown with 3,306 warehousing jobs, which is 64.7 times the average Missouri site headcount of 51 and 0.17% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Greene is 3rd of the counties shown with 2,824 warehousing jobs, which is 55.3 times the average Missouri site headcount of 51 and 0.15% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Missouri begin with 630 to 658.
• 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.