Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to New Jersey

Measured against the national total for each industry, New Jersey is strongest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 8.6% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 4.0%. The state holds 4% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Middlesex holds 34.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 61.7%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

New Jersey stands 3,919 jobs behind Illinois and 8,646 ahead of Indiana. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so New Jersey sits 3.3 times above that line.

• The average New Jersey warehousing site employs 84 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.0 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.57 people for every warehousing job in New Jersey; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 1,213 jobs in New Jersey, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 30,062 jobs, 8.6% of the national 350,886, which makes it 2nd of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,799 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 New Jersey has 32.1% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments New Jersey is 7th of fifty, and by average site size it is 18th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing New Jersey ranks 16th with 43,231 jobs, 2.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 46,970 of the state's 76,152 warehousing jobs, so 29,182 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for New Jersey often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by New Jersey's 76,152, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania.

The table sets New Jersey 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 Jersey would have to lose 52,941; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 605.
• Its 4% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.44% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.61: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 911 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 10,932 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in New Jersey fall in 070 to 089, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 30,062 jobs, 0.39 for every warehousing job and 33 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 43,231 food manufacturing jobs by the 911 warehousing sites gives 47.5; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 4% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 25 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 911 New Jersey sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 74,221 warehousing jobs, which is 1,931 fewer than the 76,152 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Delaware, New Jersey has 63,657 more warehousing jobs, 777 more sites and 32,074 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Delaware site holds 93.2 jobs and the typical New Jersey site 83.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.57 here and 0.89 there.
• Against New York, New Jersey has 20,781 more warehousing jobs, 78 more sites and 17,085 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical New York site holds 66.5 jobs and the typical New Jersey site 83.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.57 here and 1.09 there.
• Against Pennsylvania, New Jersey has 47,329 fewer warehousing jobs, 251 fewer sites and 39,307 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Pennsylvania site holds 106.3 jobs and the typical New Jersey site 83.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.57 here and 0.67 there.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 30,062 in New Jersey, 8.6% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.39 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 5,388 in New Jersey, 7.4% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.07 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 47,966 in New Jersey, 5.4% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.63 of these jobs.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 38,127 in New Jersey, 4.6% of the 829,364 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.50 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 76,152 in New Jersey, 4.0% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Middlesex is 1st of the counties shown with 26,309 warehousing jobs, which is 314.7 times the average New Jersey site headcount of 84 and 1.38% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Burlington is 2nd of the counties shown with 10,713 warehousing jobs, which is 128.2 times the average New Jersey site headcount of 84 and 0.56% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Gloucester is 3rd of the counties shown with 9,948 warehousing jobs, which is 119.0 times the average New Jersey site headcount of 84 and 0.52% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in New Jersey begin with 070 to 089.
• 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.