Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to South Carolina

Measured against the national total for each industry, South Carolina is strongest in motor vehicle manufacturing, with 5.4% of the US jobs, and weakest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 1.9%. The state holds 1.43% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Lexington holds 20.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 41.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 2 metro markets in South Carolina. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

South Carolina stands 2,816 jobs behind Maryland and 424 ahead of Missouri. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so South Carolina sits 1.2 times above that line.

• The average South Carolina warehousing site employs 52 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 63 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.66 people for every warehousing job in South Carolina; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 37,116 jobs in South Carolina, 4.6% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 6,517 jobs, 1.9% of the national 350,886, which makes it 17th of the 46 states that report.
• California has the most warehousing jobs of any state, 236,923, and South Carolina has 11.5% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments South Carolina is 16th of fifty, and by average site size it is 39th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing South Carolina ranks 33rd with 17,789 jobs, 1.0% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 11,360 of the state's 27,150 warehousing jobs, so 15,790 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for South Carolina in cold storage capacity. 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 South Carolina often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by South Carolina's 27,150, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Georgia and North Carolina.

The table sets South Carolina 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, South Carolina would have to lose 3,939; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 221.
• Its 1.43% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.00% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.70: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 527 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 6,324 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in South Carolina fall in 290 to 299, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 15,531 jobs, 0.57 for every warehousing job and 29 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 17,789 food manufacturing jobs by the 527 warehousing sites gives 33.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.43% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 70 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 527 South Carolina sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 42,936 warehousing jobs, which is 15,786 more than the 27,150 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Georgia, South Carolina has 57,580 fewer warehousing jobs, 623 fewer sites and 56,376 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Georgia site holds 73.7 jobs and the typical South Carolina site 51.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.66 here and 0.88 there.
• Against North Carolina, South Carolina has 27,401 fewer warehousing jobs, 63 fewer sites and 43,652 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical North Carolina site holds 92.5 jobs and the typical South Carolina site 51.5; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.66 here and 1.13 there.

• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 15,531 in South Carolina, 5.4% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.57 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 21,585 in South Carolina, 4.1% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.80 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 22,678 in South Carolina, 2.5% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.84 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 13,499 in South Carolina, 2.3% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.50 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 6,517 in South Carolina, 1.9% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.24 of these jobs.

• Lexington is 1st of the counties shown with 5,481 warehousing jobs, which is 106.4 times the average South Carolina site headcount of 52 and 0.29% of all US warehousing jobs.
• York is 2nd of the counties shown with 3,009 warehousing jobs, which is 58.4 times the average South Carolina site headcount of 52 and 0.16% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Greenville is 3rd of the counties shown with 2,870 warehousing jobs, which is 55.7 times the average South Carolina site headcount of 52 and 0.15% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in South Carolina begin with 290 to 299.
• 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.