Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Ohio

Measured against the national total for each industry, Ohio is strongest in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, with 11.9% of the US jobs, and weakest in chemical manufacturing, with 5.5%. The state holds 5.17% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Franklin holds 18.5% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 38.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 3 metro markets in Ohio. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Ohio stands 7,047 jobs behind Florida and 13,624 ahead of Georgia. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Ohio sits 4.2 times above that line.

• The average Ohio warehousing site employs 96 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.2 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.67 people for every warehousing job in Ohio; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 81,095 jobs in Ohio, 10.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 7,365 jobs, 2.1% of the national 350,886, which makes it 14th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 752 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 Ohio has 41.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Ohio is 6th of fifty, and by average site size it is 9th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Ohio ranks 7th with 66,120 jobs, 3.7% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 38,157 of the state's 98,354 warehousing jobs, so 60,197 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Ohio often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Ohio's 98,354, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

The table sets Ohio 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, Ohio would have to lose 75,143; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 716.
• Its 5.17% of US warehousing jobs compares with 3.73% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.72: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 1,022 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 12,264 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Ohio fall in 430 to 459, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 62,025 jobs, 0.63 for every warehousing job and 61 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 66,120 food manufacturing jobs by the 1,022 warehousing sites gives 64.7; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 5.17% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 19 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 1,022 Ohio sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 83,265 warehousing jobs, which is 15,089 fewer than the 98,354 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Indiana, Ohio has 30,848 more warehousing jobs, 483 more sites and 19,646 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Indiana site holds 125.2 jobs and the typical Ohio site 96.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.67 here and 0.69 there.
• Against Kentucky, Ohio has 60,073 more warehousing jobs, 592 more sites and 34,847 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kentucky site holds 89.0 jobs and the typical Ohio site 96.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.67 here and 0.82 there.
• Against Michigan, Ohio has 57,601 more warehousing jobs, 446 more sites and 21,716 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Michigan site holds 70.8 jobs and the typical Ohio site 96.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.67 here and 1.09 there.
• Against Pennsylvania, Ohio has 25,127 fewer warehousing jobs, 140 fewer sites and 16,418 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Pennsylvania site holds 106.3 jobs and the typical Ohio site 96.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.67 here and 0.67 there.
• Against West Virginia, Ohio has 94,723 more warehousing jobs, 922 more sites and 62,484 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical West Virginia site holds 36.3 jobs and the typical Ohio site 96.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.67 here and 1.00 there.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 62,025 in Ohio, 11.9% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.63 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 42,286 in Ohio, 7.4% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.43 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 19,070 in Ohio, 6.6% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.19 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 10,327 in Ohio, 5.9% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.10 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 49,328 in Ohio, 5.5% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.50 of these jobs.

• Franklin is 1st of the counties shown with 18,179 warehousing jobs, which is 188.9 times the average Ohio site headcount of 96 and 0.96% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Cuyahoga is 2nd of the counties shown with 12,498 warehousing jobs, which is 129.9 times the average Ohio site headcount of 96 and 0.66% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Madison is 3rd of the counties shown with 7,480 warehousing jobs, which is 77.7 times the average Ohio site headcount of 96 and 0.39% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Ohio begin with 430 to 459.
• 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.