Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Oregon

Measured against the national total for each industry, Oregon is strongest in fruit and vegetable preserving, with 5.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 1.6%. The state holds 0.88% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Multnomah holds 44.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 79.5%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Oregon stands 1,171 jobs behind Minnesota and 1,126 ahead of Arkansas. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Oregon sits at 72 percent of that line.

• The average Oregon warehousing site employs 63 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 77 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.68 people for every warehousing job in Oregon; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 1,704 jobs in Oregon, 0.2% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 1,204 jobs, 0.34% of the national 350,886, which makes it 35th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 8,299 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 Oregon has 7.1% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Oregon is 30th of fifty, and by average site size it is 34th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Oregon ranks 26th with 28,203 jobs, 1.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 13,322 of the state's 16,750 warehousing jobs, so 3,428 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Oregon 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 Oregon often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Oregon's 16,750, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: California, Idaho, Nevada, and Washington.

The table sets Oregon 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, Oregon would need to add 6,461; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 39.
• Its 0.88% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.59% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.80: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 267 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,204 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Oregon fall in 970 to 979, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving is the largest listed industry on this page at 9,076 jobs, 0.54 for every warehousing job and 34 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 28,203 food manufacturing jobs by the 267 warehousing sites gives 105.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.88% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 114 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 267 Oregon sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 21,753 warehousing jobs, which is 5,003 more than the 16,750 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• California has 220,173 more warehousing jobs, 2,509 more sites and 138,457 more food manufacturing jobs than Oregon, so a California dock averages 85.3 jobs per site against 62.7 here, and 0.70 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.68.
• Idaho has 14,305 fewer warehousing jobs, 121 fewer sites and 6,840 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Oregon, so a Idaho dock averages 16.7 jobs per site against 62.7 here, and 8.74 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.68.
• Nevada has 25,363 more warehousing jobs, 347 more sites and 19,779 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Oregon, so a Nevada dock averages 68.6 jobs per site against 62.7 here, and 0.20 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.68.
• Washington has 19,941 more warehousing jobs, 206 more sites and 11,484 more food manufacturing jobs than Oregon, so a Washington dock averages 77.6 jobs per site against 62.7 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.68.

• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 9,076 in Oregon, 5.2% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.54 of these jobs.
• Beverage manufacturing employs 7,137 in Oregon, 2.3% of the 316,938 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.43 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 28,203 in Oregon, 1.6% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.68 of these jobs.

• Multnomah is 1st of the counties shown with 7,435 warehousing jobs, which is 118.5 times the average Oregon site headcount of 63 and 0.39% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Marion is 2nd of the counties shown with 4,206 warehousing jobs, which is 67.0 times the average Oregon site headcount of 63 and 0.22% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Linn is 3rd of the counties shown with 1,681 warehousing jobs, which is 26.8 times the average Oregon site headcount of 63 and 0.09% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Oregon begin with 970 to 979.
• 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.