Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Oklahoma

Measured against the national total for each industry, Oklahoma is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 2.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 1.1%. The state holds 1.03% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Oklahoma holds 42.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 66.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Oklahoma stands 155 jobs behind Iowa and 1,748 ahead of Minnesota. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Oklahoma sits at 85 percent of that line.

• The average Oklahoma warehousing site employs 106 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.3 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.02 people for every warehousing job in Oklahoma; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 1,793 jobs in Oklahoma, 0.2% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 846 jobs, 0.24% of the national 350,886, which makes it 37th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 508 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 Oklahoma has 8.3% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Oklahoma is 35th of fifty, and by average site size it is 7th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Oklahoma ranks 31st with 20,047 jobs, 1.1% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 13,071 of the state's 19,669 warehousing jobs, so 6,598 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Oklahoma in motor vehicle assembly. 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 Oklahoma often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Oklahoma's 19,669, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and Texas.

The table sets Oklahoma 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, Oklahoma would need to add 3,542; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 120.
• Its 1.03% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.13% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.09: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 186 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 2,232 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Oklahoma fall in 730 to 749, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Meat and poultry processing is the largest listed industry on this page at 11,968 jobs, 0.61 for every warehousing job and 64 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 20,047 food manufacturing jobs by the 186 warehousing sites gives 107.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.03% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 97 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 186 Oklahoma sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 15,154 warehousing jobs, which is 4,515 fewer than the 19,669 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Arkansas has 4,045 fewer warehousing jobs, 32 more sites and 31,752 more food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a Arkansas dock averages 71.7 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 3.32 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.
• Colorado has 4,872 more warehousing jobs, 118 more sites and 6,522 more food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a Colorado dock averages 80.7 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.
• Kansas has 1,489 more warehousing jobs, 107 more sites and 17,725 more food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a Kansas dock averages 72.2 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 1.79 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.
• Missouri has 7,057 more warehousing jobs, 337 more sites and 25,221 more food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a Missouri dock averages 51.1 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 1.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.
• New Mexico has 13,944 fewer warehousing jobs, 120 fewer sites and 13,673 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a New Mexico dock averages 86.7 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 1.11 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.
• Texas has 155,910 more warehousing jobs, 1,988 more sites and 92,041 more food manufacturing jobs than Oklahoma, so a Texas dock averages 80.8 jobs per site against 105.7 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.02.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 11,968 in Oklahoma, 2.2% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.61 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 20,047 in Oklahoma, 1.1% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.02 of these jobs.

• Oklahoma is 1st of the counties shown with 8,307 warehousing jobs, which is 78.6 times the average Oklahoma site headcount of 106 and 0.44% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Tulsa is 2nd of the counties shown with 4,614 warehousing jobs, which is 43.6 times the average Oklahoma site headcount of 106 and 0.24% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Garfield is 3rd of the counties shown with 150 warehousing jobs, which is 1.4 times the average Oklahoma site headcount of 106 and 0.01% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Oklahoma begin with 730 to 749.
• 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.