Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to New Hampshire

Measured against the national total for each industry, New Hampshire is strongest in plastics product manufacturing, with 0.71% of the US jobs, and weakest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 0.63%. The state holds 0.17% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Rockingham holds 56.0% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 80.7%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

New Hampshire stands 348 jobs behind West Virginia and 14 ahead of South Dakota. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so New Hampshire sits at 14 percent of that line.

• The average New Hampshire warehousing site employs 34 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 42 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.84 people for every warehousing job in New Hampshire; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 910 jobs in New Hampshire, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,222 jobs, 0.63% of the national 350,886, which makes it 30th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and New Hampshire has 1.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments New Hampshire is 40th of fifty, and by average site size it is 44th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing New Hampshire ranks 48th with 2,774 jobs, 0.2% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 2,651 of the state's 3,283 warehousing jobs, so 632 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for New Hampshire in motor vehicle assembly and 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 New Hampshire often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by New Hampshire's 3,283, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Massachusetts, Maine, and Vermont.

The table sets New Hampshire 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, New Hampshire would need to add 19,928; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 210.
• Its 0.17% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.16% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.91: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 96 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 1,152 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in New Hampshire fall in 030 to 038, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Plastics product manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 4,093 jobs, 1.25 for every warehousing job and 43 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 2,774 food manufacturing jobs by the 96 warehousing sites gives 28.9; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.17% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 588 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 96 New Hampshire sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 7,821 warehousing jobs, which is 4,538 more than the 3,283 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Massachusetts has 17,412 more warehousing jobs, 152 more sites and 26,262 more food manufacturing jobs than New Hampshire, so a Massachusetts dock averages 83.4 jobs per site against 34.2 here, and 1.40 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.84.
• Maine has 491 more warehousing jobs, 24 fewer sites and 2,899 more food manufacturing jobs than New Hampshire, so a Maine dock averages 52.4 jobs per site against 34.2 here, and 1.50 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.84.
• Vermont has 2,226 fewer warehousing jobs, 54 fewer sites and 2,574 more food manufacturing jobs than New Hampshire, so a Vermont dock averages 25.2 jobs per site against 34.2 here, and 5.06 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.84.

• Plastics product manufacturing employs 4,093 in New Hampshire, 0.71% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.25 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 2,222 in New Hampshire, 0.63% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.68 of these jobs.

• Rockingham is 1st of the counties shown with 1,838 warehousing jobs, which is 53.7 times the average New Hampshire site headcount of 34 and 0.10% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Merrimack is 2nd of the counties shown with 497 warehousing jobs, which is 14.5 times the average New Hampshire site headcount of 34 and 0.03% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Strafford is 3rd of the counties shown with 316 warehousing jobs, which is 9.2 times the average New Hampshire site headcount of 34 and 0.02% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in New Hampshire begin with 030 to 038.
• 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.