Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Tennessee

Measured against the national total for each industry, Tennessee is strongest in motor vehicle parts manufacturing, with 7.4% of the US jobs, and weakest in warehousing and storage, with 2.8%. The state holds 2.81% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Shelby holds 21.9% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 50.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 3 metro markets in Tennessee. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Tennessee stands 1,124 jobs behind North Carolina and 1,373 ahead of Arizona. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Tennessee sits 2.3 times above that line.

• The average Tennessee warehousing site employs 83 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.0 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.75 people for every warehousing job in Tennessee; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 58,244 jobs in Tennessee, 7.2% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 3,015 jobs, 0.86% of the national 350,886, which makes it 25th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,273 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 Tennessee has 22.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Tennessee is 10th of fifty, and by average site size it is 21st, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Tennessee ranks 18th with 40,320 jobs, 2.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 27,146 of the state's 53,427 warehousing jobs, so 26,281 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Tennessee often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Tennessee's 53,427, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia.

The table sets Tennessee 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, Tennessee would have to lose 30,216; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 336.
• Its 2.81% of US warehousing jobs compares with 2.27% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.81: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 642 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 7,704 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Tennessee fall in 370 to 385, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 38,791 jobs, 0.73 for every warehousing job and 60 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 40,320 food manufacturing jobs by the 642 warehousing sites gives 62.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.81% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 36 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 642 Tennessee sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 52,305 warehousing jobs, which is 1,122 fewer than the 53,427 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Alabama has 31,547 fewer warehousing jobs, 336 fewer sites and 6,592 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Alabama dock averages 71.5 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 1.54 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Arkansas has 37,803 fewer warehousing jobs, 424 fewer sites and 11,479 more food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Arkansas dock averages 71.7 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 3.32 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Georgia has 31,303 more warehousing jobs, 508 more sites and 33,845 more food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Georgia dock averages 73.7 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 0.88 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Kentucky has 15,146 fewer warehousing jobs, 212 fewer sites and 9,047 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Kentucky dock averages 89.0 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 0.82 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Missouri has 26,701 fewer warehousing jobs, 119 fewer sites and 4,948 more food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Missouri dock averages 51.1 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 1.69 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Mississippi has 27,973 fewer warehousing jobs, 337 fewer sites and 15,593 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Mississippi dock averages 83.5 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 0.97 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• North Carolina has 1,124 more warehousing jobs, 52 fewer sites and 21,121 more food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a North Carolina dock averages 92.5 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 1.13 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.
• Virginia has 2,304 fewer warehousing jobs, 113 fewer sites and 7,636 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Tennessee, so a Virginia dock averages 96.6 jobs per site against 83.2 here, and 0.64 food jobs for each warehousing job against 0.75.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 38,791 in Tennessee, 7.4% of the 521,212 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.73 of these jobs.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 19,453 in Tennessee, 6.7% of the 288,633 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.36 of these jobs.
• Chemical manufacturing employs 27,214 in Tennessee, 3.0% of the 892,426 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.51 of these jobs.
• Warehousing and storage employs 53,427 in Tennessee, 2.8% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.

• Shelby is 1st of the counties shown with 11,727 warehousing jobs, which is 140.9 times the average Tennessee site headcount of 83 and 0.62% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Wilson is 2nd of the counties shown with 9,641 warehousing jobs, which is 115.9 times the average Tennessee site headcount of 83 and 0.51% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Rutherford is 3rd of the counties shown with 5,778 warehousing jobs, which is 69.4 times the average Tennessee site headcount of 83 and 0.30% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Tennessee begin with 370 to 385.
• 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.
• Receiving hours and whether delivery needs an appointment.