Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Utah

Measured against the national total for each industry, Utah is strongest in dairy product manufacturing, with 2.6% of the US jobs, and weakest in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, with 2.2%. The state holds 0.72% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Salt Lake holds 48.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 70.7%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

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

Utah stands 1,629 jobs behind Louisiana and 1,188 ahead of Delaware. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Utah sits at 59 percent of that line.

• The average Utah warehousing site employs 47 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 58 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.71 people for every warehousing job in Utah; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 3,691 jobs in Utah, 0.5% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 7,842 jobs, 2.2% of the national 350,886, which makes it 13th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 4,750 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 Utah has 5.8% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Utah is 29th of fifty, and by average site size it is 41st, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Utah ranks 29th with 23,423 jobs, 1.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 9,672 of the state's 13,683 warehousing jobs, so 4,011 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Utah in 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 Utah often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Utah's 13,683, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, and Wyoming.

The table sets Utah 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, Utah would need to add 9,528; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 16.
• Its 0.72% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.32% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 1.83: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 290 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 3,480 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Utah fall in 840 to 847, so the first three digits of a ship-to are enough to place a dock inside the state.
• Dairy product manufacturing is the largest listed industry on this page at 4,388 jobs, 0.32 for every warehousing job and 15 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 23,423 food manufacturing jobs by the 290 warehousing sites gives 80.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.72% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 139 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 290 Utah sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 23,627 warehousing jobs, which is 9,944 more than the 13,683 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Arizona has 38,371 more warehousing jobs, 55 more sites and 7,479 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a Arizona dock averages 150.9 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 0.31 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.
• Colorado has 10,858 more warehousing jobs, 14 more sites and 3,146 more food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a Colorado dock averages 80.7 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 1.08 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.
• Idaho has 11,238 fewer warehousing jobs, 144 fewer sites and 2,060 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a Idaho dock averages 16.7 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 8.74 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.
• New Mexico has 7,958 fewer warehousing jobs, 224 fewer sites and 17,049 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a New Mexico dock averages 86.7 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 1.11 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.
• Nevada has 28,430 more warehousing jobs, 324 more sites and 14,999 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a Nevada dock averages 68.6 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 0.20 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.
• Wyoming has 11,709 fewer warehousing jobs, 267 fewer sites and 22,521 fewer food manufacturing jobs than Utah, so a Wyoming dock averages 85.8 jobs per site against 47.2 here, and 0.46 food jobs for each warehousing job against 1.71.

• Dairy product manufacturing employs 4,388 in Utah, 2.6% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.32 of these jobs.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 7,842 in Utah, 2.2% of the 350,886 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.57 of these jobs.

• Salt Lake is 1st of the counties shown with 6,623 warehousing jobs, which is 140.4 times the average Utah site headcount of 47 and 0.35% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Washington is 2nd of the counties shown with 1,676 warehousing jobs, which is 35.5 times the average Utah site headcount of 47 and 0.09% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Davis is 3rd of the counties shown with 1,373 warehousing jobs, which is 29.1 times the average Utah site headcount of 47 and 0.07% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Utah begin with 840 to 847.
• 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.