Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Nebraska

Measured against the national total for each industry, Nebraska is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 5.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 2.4%. The state holds 0.43% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Sarpy holds 43.8% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 72.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Nebraska stands 4,249 jobs behind Delaware and 2,521 ahead of New Mexico. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Nebraska sits at 36 percent of that line.

• The average Nebraska warehousing site employs 53 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 65 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 5.09 people for every warehousing job in Nebraska; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 3,822 jobs in Nebraska, 0.5% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,616 jobs, 0.75% of the national 350,886, which makes it 29th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 5,942 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 Nebraska has 3.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Nebraska is 36th of fifty, and by average site size it is 37th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Nebraska ranks 17th with 41,939 jobs, 2.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 5,945 of the state's 8,246 warehousing jobs, so 2,301 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Nebraska 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 Nebraska often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Nebraska's 8,246, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

The table sets Nebraska 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, Nebraska would need to add 14,965; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 150.
• Its 0.43% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.36% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 5.45: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 156 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 1,872 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Nebraska fall in 680 to 693, 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 31,833 jobs, 3.86 for every warehousing job and 204 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 41,939 food manufacturing jobs by the 156 warehousing sites gives 268.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.43% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 233 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 156 Nebraska sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 12,710 warehousing jobs, which is 4,464 more than the 8,246 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Colorado, Nebraska has 16,295 fewer warehousing jobs, 148 fewer sites and 15,370 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Colorado site holds 80.7 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 1.08 there.
• Against Iowa, Nebraska has 11,578 fewer warehousing jobs, 182 fewer sites and 18,222 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Iowa site holds 58.7 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 3.03 there.
• Against Kansas, Nebraska has 12,912 fewer warehousing jobs, 137 fewer sites and 4,167 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kansas site holds 72.2 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 1.79 there.
• Against Missouri, Nebraska has 18,480 fewer warehousing jobs, 367 fewer sites and 3,329 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Missouri site holds 51.1 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 1.69 there.
• Against South Dakota, Nebraska has 4,977 more warehousing jobs, 114 more sites and 31,073 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical South Dakota site holds 77.8 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 3.32 there.
• Against Wyoming, Nebraska has 6,272 more warehousing jobs, 133 more sites and 41,037 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Wyoming site holds 85.8 jobs and the typical Nebraska site 52.9; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.09 here and 0.46 there.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 31,833 in Nebraska, 5.7% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 3.86 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 41,939 in Nebraska, 2.4% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 5.09 of these jobs.

• Sarpy is 1st of the counties shown with 3,613 warehousing jobs, which is 68.4 times the average Nebraska site headcount of 53 and 0.19% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Douglas is 2nd of the counties shown with 1,252 warehousing jobs, which is 23.7 times the average Nebraska site headcount of 53 and 0.07% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Lancaster is 3rd of the counties shown with 1,080 warehousing jobs, which is 20.4 times the average Nebraska site headcount of 53 and 0.06% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Nebraska begin with 680 to 693.
• 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.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.