Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Nevada

Measured against the national total for each industry, Nevada is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 2.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.47%. The state holds 2.21% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Clark holds 67.1% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 96.2%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Nevada stands 9,010 jobs behind Virginia and 1,360 ahead of Michigan. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Nevada sits 1.8 times above that line.

• The average Nevada warehousing site employs 69 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 84 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.20 people for every warehousing job in Nevada; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 1,083 jobs in Nevada, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 1,439 jobs, 0.41% of the national 350,886, which makes it 33rd of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Nevada has 17.8% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Nevada is 11th of fifty, and by average site size it is 32nd, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Nevada ranks 40th with 8,424 jobs, 0.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 40,519 of the state's 42,113 warehousing jobs, so 1,594 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Nevada in cold storage capacity. 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 Nevada often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Nevada's 42,113, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arizona, California, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah.

The table sets Nevada 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, Nevada would have to lose 18,902; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 308.
• Its 2.21% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.47% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.21: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 614 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 7,368 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Nevada fall in 889 to 898, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Warehousing and storage is the largest listed industry on this page at 42,113 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 69 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 8,424 food manufacturing jobs by the 614 warehousing sites gives 13.7; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.21% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 45 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 614 Nevada sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 50,024 warehousing jobs, which is 7,911 more than the 42,113 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Arizona, Nevada has 9,941 fewer warehousing jobs, 269 more sites and 7,520 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arizona site holds 150.9 jobs and the typical Nevada site 68.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.20 here and 0.31 there.
• Against California, Nevada has 194,810 fewer warehousing jobs, 2,162 fewer sites and 158,236 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical California site holds 85.3 jobs and the typical Nevada site 68.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.20 here and 0.70 there.
• Against Idaho, Nevada has 39,668 more warehousing jobs, 468 more sites and 12,939 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Idaho site holds 16.7 jobs and the typical Nevada site 68.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.20 here and 8.74 there.
• Against Oregon, Nevada has 25,363 more warehousing jobs, 347 more sites and 19,779 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oregon site holds 62.7 jobs and the typical Nevada site 68.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.20 here and 1.68 there.
• Against Utah, Nevada has 28,430 more warehousing jobs, 324 more sites and 14,999 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Utah site holds 47.2 jobs and the typical Nevada site 68.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.20 here and 1.71 there.

• Warehousing and storage employs 42,113 in Nevada, 2.2% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 8,424 in Nevada, 0.47% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.20 of these jobs.

• Clark is 1st of the counties shown with 28,250 warehousing jobs, which is 411.9 times the average Nevada site headcount of 69 and 1.49% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Washoe is 2nd of the counties shown with 9,662 warehousing jobs, which is 140.9 times the average Nevada site headcount of 69 and 0.51% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Storey is 3rd of the counties shown with 2,607 warehousing jobs, which is 38.0 times the average Nevada site headcount of 69 and 0.14% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Nevada begin with 889 to 898.
• 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.