Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to New Mexico

Measured against the national total for each industry, New Mexico is strongest in dairy product manufacturing, with 1.0% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.36%. The state holds 0.3% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Doña Ana holds 7.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 2 counties shown together hold 7.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

New Mexico stands 2,521 jobs behind Nebraska and 573 ahead of Rhode Island. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so New Mexico sits at 25 percent of that line.

• The average New Mexico warehousing site employs 87 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.11 people for every warehousing job in New Mexico; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 10 jobs in New Mexico, 0.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 839 jobs, 0.24% of the national 350,886, which makes it 38th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and New Mexico has 2.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments New Mexico is 42nd of fifty, and by average site size it is 14th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing New Mexico ranks 41st with 6,374 jobs, 0.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 2 counties shown hold 427 of the state's 5,725 warehousing jobs, so 5,298 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for New Mexico 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 Mexico often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by New Mexico's 5,725, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah.

The table sets New Mexico 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 Mexico would need to add 17,486; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 240.
• Its 0.3% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.36% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.19: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 66 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 792 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in New Mexico fall in 870 to 884, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Dairy product manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 1,732 jobs, 0.30 for every warehousing job and 26 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 6,374 food manufacturing jobs by the 66 warehousing sites gives 96.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.3% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 333 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 66 New Mexico sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 5,377 warehousing jobs, which is 348 fewer than the 5,725 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Arizona has 46,329 more warehousing jobs, 279 more sites and 9,570 more food manufacturing jobs than New Mexico, so a Arizona dock averages 150.9 jobs per site against 86.7 here, and 0.31 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.11.
• Colorado has 18,816 more warehousing jobs, 238 more sites and 20,195 more food manufacturing jobs than New Mexico, so a Colorado dock averages 80.7 jobs per site against 86.7 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.11.
• Oklahoma has 13,944 more warehousing jobs, 120 more sites and 13,673 more food manufacturing jobs than New Mexico, so a Oklahoma dock averages 105.7 jobs per site against 86.7 here, and 1.02 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.11.
• Texas has 169,854 more warehousing jobs, 2,108 more sites and 105,714 more food manufacturing jobs than New Mexico, so a Texas dock averages 80.8 jobs per site against 86.7 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.11.
• Utah has 7,958 more warehousing jobs, 224 more sites and 17,049 more food manufacturing jobs than New Mexico, so a Utah dock averages 47.2 jobs per site against 86.7 here, and 1.71 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.11.

• Dairy product manufacturing employs 1,732 in New Mexico, 1.0% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.30 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 6,374 in New Mexico, 0.36% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.11 of these jobs.

• Doña Ana is 1st of the counties shown with 411 warehousing jobs, which is 4.7 times the average New Mexico site headcount of 87 and 0.02% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Santa Fe is 2nd of the counties shown with 16 warehousing jobs, which is 0.2 times the average New Mexico site headcount of 87 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in New Mexico begin with 870 to 884.
• 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.