Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to South Dakota

Measured against the national total for each industry, South Dakota is strongest in meat and poultry processing, with 1.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.61%. The state holds 0.17% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Minnehaha holds 89.6% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 91.4%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

South Dakota stands 14 jobs behind New Hampshire and 824 ahead of Idaho. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so South Dakota sits at 14 percent of that line.

• The average South Dakota warehousing site employs 78 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 96 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 3.32 people for every warehousing job in South Dakota; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 662 jobs in South Dakota, 0.1% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Cold storage runs 7,036 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 South Dakota has 1.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments South Dakota is 46th of fifty, and by average site size it is 24th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing South Dakota ranks 37th with 10,866 jobs, 0.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 2,988 of the state's 3,269 warehousing jobs, so 281 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for South Dakota in pharmaceutical manufacturing and 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 South Dakota often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by South Dakota's 3,269, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming.

The table sets South Dakota 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 Dakota would need to add 19,942; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 264.
• Its 0.17% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.61% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 3.56: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 42 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 504 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in South Dakota fall in 570 to 577, 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 6,460 jobs, 1.98 for every warehousing job and 154 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 10,866 food manufacturing jobs by the 42 warehousing sites gives 258.7; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.17% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 588 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 42 South Dakota sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 3,422 warehousing jobs, which is 153 more than the 3,269 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Iowa has 16,555 more warehousing jobs, 296 more sites and 49,295 more food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a Iowa dock averages 58.7 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 3.03 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Minnesota has 14,652 more warehousing jobs, 270 more sites and 36,963 more food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a Minnesota dock averages 57.4 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 2.67 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Montana has 2,841 fewer warehousing jobs, 10 more sites and 8,374 fewer food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a Montana dock averages 8.2 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 5.82 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• North Dakota has 1,831 fewer warehousing jobs, 19 more sites and 5,302 fewer food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a North Dakota dock averages 23.6 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 3.87 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Nebraska has 4,977 more warehousing jobs, 114 more sites and 31,073 more food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a Nebraska dock averages 52.9 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 5.09 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.
• Wyoming has 1,295 fewer warehousing jobs, 19 fewer sites and 9,964 fewer food manufacturing jobs than South Dakota, so a Wyoming dock averages 85.8 jobs per site against 77.8 here, and 0.46 food jobs for each warehousing job against 3.32.

• Meat and poultry processing employs 6,460 in South Dakota, 1.2% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.98 of these jobs.
• Dairy product manufacturing employs 1,510 in South Dakota, 0.90% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.46 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 10,866 in South Dakota, 0.61% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 3.32 of these jobs.

• Minnehaha is 1st of the counties shown with 2,930 warehousing jobs, which is 37.6 times the average South Dakota site headcount of 78 and 0.15% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Pennington is 2nd of the counties shown with 33 warehousing jobs, which is 0.4 times the average South Dakota site headcount of 78 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Union is 3rd of the counties shown with 25 warehousing jobs, which is 0.3 times the average South Dakota site headcount of 78 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in South Dakota begin with 570 to 577.
• 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.