Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to New York

Measured against the national total for each industry, New York is strongest in food manufacturing, with 3.4% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 2.9%. The state holds 2.91% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Onondaga holds 11.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 28.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

New York stands 12,135 jobs behind Indiana and 820 ahead of North Carolina. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so New York sits 2.4 times above that line.

• The average New York warehousing site employs 66 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 82 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.09 people for every warehousing job in New York; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 8,597 jobs in New York, 1.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 25,087 jobs, 7.1% of the national 350,886, which makes it 4th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,011 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 York has 23.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments New York is 9th of fifty, and by average site size it is 33rd, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing New York ranks 9th with 60,316 jobs, 3.4% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 15,552 of the state's 55,371 warehousing jobs, so 39,819 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for New York often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by New York's 55,371, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.

The table sets New York 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 York would have to lose 32,160; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 527.
• Its 2.91% of US warehousing jobs compares with 3.40% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.17: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 833 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 9,996 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in New York fall in 005 and 100 to 149, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Food manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 60,316 jobs, 1.09 for every warehousing job and 72 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 60,316 food manufacturing jobs by the 833 warehousing sites gives 72.4; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.91% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 34 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 833 New York sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 67,867 warehousing jobs, which is 12,496 more than the 55,371 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Connecticut has 30,244 fewer warehousing jobs, 640 fewer sites and 50,645 fewer food manufacturing jobs than New York, so a Connecticut dock averages 130.2 jobs per site against 66.5 here, and 0.38 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• Massachusetts has 34,676 fewer warehousing jobs, 585 fewer sites and 31,280 fewer food manufacturing jobs than New York, so a Massachusetts dock averages 83.4 jobs per site against 66.5 here, and 1.40 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• New Jersey has 20,781 more warehousing jobs, 78 more sites and 17,085 fewer food manufacturing jobs than New York, so a New Jersey dock averages 83.6 jobs per site against 66.5 here, and 0.57 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• Pennsylvania has 68,110 more warehousing jobs, 329 more sites and 22,222 more food manufacturing jobs than New York, so a Pennsylvania dock averages 106.3 jobs per site against 66.5 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.
• Vermont has 54,314 fewer warehousing jobs, 791 fewer sites and 54,968 fewer food manufacturing jobs than New York, so a Vermont dock averages 25.2 jobs per site against 66.5 here, and 5.06 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.09.

• Food manufacturing employs 60,316 in New York, 3.4% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.09 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 55,371 in New York, 2.9% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Onondaga is 1st of the counties shown with 6,329 warehousing jobs, which is 95.2 times the average New York site headcount of 66 and 0.33% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Monroe is 2nd of the counties shown with 5,986 warehousing jobs, which is 90.1 times the average New York site headcount of 66 and 0.31% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Erie is 3rd of the counties shown with 3,237 warehousing jobs, which is 48.7 times the average New York site headcount of 66 and 0.17% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in New York begin with 005 and 100 to 149.
• 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.
• Whether the dock has a loading dock or needs a liftgate trailer.