Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Pennsylvania

Measured against the national total for each industry, Pennsylvania is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 6.5% of the US jobs, and weakest in refrigerated warehousing, with 5.6%. The state holds 6.49% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Luzerne holds 11.0% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 29.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 6 metro markets in Pennsylvania. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Pennsylvania stands 52,098 jobs behind Texas and 18,080 ahead of Florida. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Pennsylvania sits 5.3 times above that line.

• The average Pennsylvania 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 0.67 people for every warehousing job in Pennsylvania; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 9,286 jobs in Pennsylvania, 1.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 20,358 jobs, 5.8% of the national 350,886, which makes it 7th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,846 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 Pennsylvania has 52.1% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Pennsylvania is 4th of fifty, and by average site size it is 6th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Pennsylvania ranks 4th with 82,538 jobs, 4.7% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 35,882 of the state's 123,481 warehousing jobs, so 87,599 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Pennsylvania often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Pennsylvania's 123,481, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and West Virginia.

The table sets Pennsylvania 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, Pennsylvania would have to lose 100,270; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 856.
• Its 6.49% of US warehousing jobs compares with 4.65% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.72: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 1,162 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 13,944 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Pennsylvania fall in 150 to 196, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Warehousing and storage is the largest listed industry on this page at 123,481 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 106 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 82,538 food manufacturing jobs by the 1,162 warehousing sites gives 71.0; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 6.49% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 15 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 1,162 Pennsylvania sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 94,671 warehousing jobs, which is 28,810 fewer than the 123,481 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Delaware has 110,986 fewer warehousing jobs, 1,028 fewer sites and 71,381 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a Delaware dock averages 93.2 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 0.89 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.
• Maryland has 93,515 fewer warehousing jobs, 917 fewer sites and 62,938 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a Maryland dock averages 122.3 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 0.65 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.
• New Jersey has 47,329 fewer warehousing jobs, 251 fewer sites and 39,307 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a New Jersey dock averages 83.6 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 0.57 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.
• New York has 68,110 fewer warehousing jobs, 329 fewer sites and 22,222 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a New York dock averages 66.5 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 1.09 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.
• Ohio has 25,127 fewer warehousing jobs, 140 fewer sites and 16,418 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a Ohio dock averages 96.2 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 0.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.
• West Virginia has 119,850 fewer warehousing jobs, 1,062 fewer sites and 78,902 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Pennsylvania, so a West Virginia dock averages 36.3 jobs per site against 106.3 here, and 1.00 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.67.

• Warehousing and storage employs 123,481 in Pennsylvania, 6.5% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 34,094 in Pennsylvania, 5.9% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.28 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 20,358 in Pennsylvania, 5.8% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.16 of these jobs.
• Refrigerated warehousing employs 4,102 in Pennsylvania, 5.6% of the 73,136 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.03 of these jobs.

• Luzerne is 1st of the counties shown with 13,602 warehousing jobs, which is 128.0 times the average Pennsylvania site headcount of 106 and 0.72% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Cumberland is 2nd of the counties shown with 12,506 warehousing jobs, which is 117.7 times the average Pennsylvania site headcount of 106 and 0.66% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Lehigh is 3rd of the counties shown with 9,774 warehousing jobs, which is 92.0 times the average Pennsylvania site headcount of 106 and 0.51% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Pennsylvania begin with 150 to 196.
• 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.