Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Texas

Measured against the national total for each industry, Texas is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 9.2% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 6.3%. The state holds 9.23% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Dallas holds 25.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 50.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 5 metro markets in Texas. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Texas stands 61,344 jobs behind California and 52,098 ahead of Pennsylvania. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Texas sits 7.6 times above that line.

• The average Texas warehousing site employs 81 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 99 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.64 people for every warehousing job in Texas; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 51,586 jobs in Texas, 6.4% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 15,366 jobs, 4.4% of the national 350,886, which makes it 8th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,447 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 Texas has 74.1% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Texas is 2nd of fifty, and by average site size it is 22nd, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Texas ranks 2nd with 112,088 jobs, 6.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 87,921 of the state's 175,579 warehousing jobs, so 87,658 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Texas often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Texas's 175,579, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

The table sets Texas 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, Texas would have to lose 152,368; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 1,868.
• Its 9.23% of US warehousing jobs compares with 6.31% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.68: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 2,174 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 26,088 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Texas fall in 750 to 799 and 885, 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 175,579 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 81 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 112,088 food manufacturing jobs by the 2,174 warehousing sites gives 51.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 9.23% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 11 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 2,174 Texas sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 177,121 warehousing jobs, which is 1,542 more than the 175,579 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Arkansas, Texas has 159,955 more warehousing jobs, 1,956 more sites and 60,289 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Arkansas site holds 71.7 jobs and the typical Texas site 80.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 3.32 there.
• Against Louisiana, Texas has 160,267 more warehousing jobs, 1,848 more sites and 95,118 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Louisiana site holds 47.0 jobs and the typical Texas site 80.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 1.11 there.
• Against New Mexico, Texas has 169,854 more warehousing jobs, 2,108 more sites and 105,714 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical New Mexico site holds 86.7 jobs and the typical Texas site 80.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 1.11 there.
• Against Oklahoma, Texas has 155,910 more warehousing jobs, 1,988 more sites and 92,041 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Oklahoma site holds 105.7 jobs and the typical Texas site 80.8; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 1.02 there.

• Warehousing and storage employs 175,579 in Texas, 9.2% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 112,088 in Texas, 6.3% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.64 of these jobs.

• Dallas is 1st of the counties shown with 44,657 warehousing jobs, which is 552.9 times the average Texas site headcount of 81 and 2.35% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Harris is 2nd of the counties shown with 23,802 warehousing jobs, which is 294.7 times the average Texas site headcount of 81 and 1.25% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Tarrant is 3rd of the counties shown with 19,462 warehousing jobs, which is 241.0 times the average Texas site headcount of 81 and 1.02% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Texas begin with 750 to 799 and 885.
• 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.