Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to North Carolina

Measured against the national total for each industry, North Carolina is strongest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 7.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in plastics product manufacturing, with 4.8%. The state holds 2.87% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Mecklenburg holds 22.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 42.3%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

North Carolina stands 820 jobs behind New York and 1,124 ahead of Tennessee. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so North Carolina sits 2.4 times above that line.

• The average North Carolina warehousing site employs 92 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.1 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.13 people for every warehousing job in North Carolina; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 13,690 jobs in North Carolina, 1.7% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 26,998 jobs, 7.7% of the national 350,886, which makes it 3rd of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and North Carolina has 23.0% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments North Carolina is 12th of fifty, and by average site size it is 12th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing North Carolina ranks 8th with 61,441 jobs, 3.5% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 23,085 of the state's 54,551 warehousing jobs, so 31,466 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for North Carolina 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 North Carolina often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by North Carolina's 54,551, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

The table sets North Carolina 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, North Carolina would have to lose 31,340; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 284.
• Its 2.87% of US warehousing jobs compares with 3.46% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.21: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 590 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 7,080 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in North Carolina fall in 270 to 289, 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 26,998 jobs, 0.49 for every warehousing job and 46 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 61,441 food manufacturing jobs by the 590 warehousing sites gives 104.1; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.87% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 35 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 590 North Carolina sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 48,069 warehousing jobs, which is 6,482 fewer than the 54,551 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Georgia, North Carolina has 30,179 fewer warehousing jobs, 560 fewer sites and 12,724 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Georgia site holds 73.7 jobs and the typical North Carolina site 92.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.13 here and 0.88 there.
• Against South Carolina, North Carolina has 27,401 more warehousing jobs, 63 more sites and 43,652 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical South Carolina site holds 51.5 jobs and the typical North Carolina site 92.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.13 here and 0.66 there.
• Against Tennessee, North Carolina has 1,124 more warehousing jobs, 52 fewer sites and 21,121 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Tennessee site holds 83.2 jobs and the typical North Carolina site 92.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.13 here and 0.75 there.
• Against Virginia, North Carolina has 3,428 more warehousing jobs, 61 more sites and 28,757 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Virginia site holds 96.6 jobs and the typical North Carolina site 92.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 1.13 here and 0.64 there.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 26,998 in North Carolina, 7.7% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.49 of these jobs.
• Meat and poultry processing employs 35,715 in North Carolina, 6.4% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.65 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 47,758 in North Carolina, 5.4% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.88 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 27,700 in North Carolina, 4.8% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.51 of these jobs.

• Mecklenburg is 1st of the counties shown with 12,290 warehousing jobs, which is 132.9 times the average North Carolina site headcount of 92 and 0.65% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Wake is 2nd of the counties shown with 6,635 warehousing jobs, which is 71.8 times the average North Carolina site headcount of 92 and 0.35% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Guilford is 3rd of the counties shown with 4,160 warehousing jobs, which is 45.0 times the average North Carolina site headcount of 92 and 0.22% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in North Carolina begin with 270 to 289.
• 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.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.