Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Rhode Island

Measured against the national total for each industry, Rhode Island is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 0.27% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.21%. The state holds 0.27% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

No county in Rhode Island is shown with disclosed warehousing data in our source, so this page gives the state total only.

Rhode Island stands 573 jobs behind New Mexico and 1,378 ahead of Maine. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Rhode Island sits at 22 percent of that line.

• The average Rhode Island warehousing site employs 129 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.6 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.73 people for every warehousing job in Rhode Island; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 228 jobs in Rhode Island, 0.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 1,258 jobs, 0.36% of the national 350,886, which makes it 34th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and Rhode Island has 2.2% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Rhode Island is 48th of fifty, and by average site size it is 3rd, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Rhode Island ranks 46th with 3,769 jobs, 0.2% of the US total of 1,775,008.

Our sources show no figure for Rhode Island in motor vehicle assembly, cold storage capacity, and county warehousing data. 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 Rhode Island often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Rhode Island's 5,152, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Connecticut and Massachusetts.

The table sets Rhode Island 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, Rhode Island would need to add 18,059; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 266.
• Its 0.27% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.21% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.78: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 40 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 480 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Rhode Island fall in 028 to 029, 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 5,152 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 129 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 3,769 food manufacturing jobs by the 40 warehousing sites gives 94.2; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.27% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 370 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 40 Rhode Island sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 3,259 warehousing jobs, which is 1,893 fewer than the 5,152 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Connecticut has 19,975 more warehousing jobs, 153 more sites and 5,902 more food manufacturing jobs than Rhode Island, so a Connecticut dock averages 130.2 jobs per site against 128.8 here, and 0.38 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.73.
• Massachusetts has 15,543 more warehousing jobs, 208 more sites and 25,267 more food manufacturing jobs than Rhode Island, so a Massachusetts dock averages 83.4 jobs per site against 128.8 here, and 1.40 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.73.

• Warehousing and storage employs 5,152 in Rhode Island, 0.27% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 3,769 in Rhode Island, 0.21% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.73 of these jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Rhode Island begin with 028 to 029.
• 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.