Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Vermont

Measured against the national total for each industry, Vermont is strongest in dairy product manufacturing, with 1.3% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 0.30%. The state holds 0.06% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Franklin holds 32.4% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 55.8%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Vermont stands 241 jobs behind Hawaii and 470 ahead of Alaska. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Vermont sits at 5 percent of that line.

• The average Vermont warehousing site employs 25 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 31 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 5.06 people for every warehousing job in Vermont; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 299 jobs in Vermont, 0.0% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 480 jobs, 0.14% of the national 350,886, which makes it 43rd of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 4,730 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 Vermont has 0.4% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Vermont is 47th of fifty, and by average site size it is 45th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Vermont ranks 45th with 5,348 jobs, 0.3% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 590 of the state's 1,057 warehousing jobs, so 467 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

Our sources show no figure for Vermont 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 Vermont often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Vermont's 1,057, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New York.

The table sets Vermont 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, Vermont would need to add 22,154; to reach its 306 median sites it would need to add 264.
• Its 0.06% of US warehousing jobs compares with 0.30% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 5.42: 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 Vermont fall in 050 to 059, 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 2,148 jobs, 2.03 for every warehousing job and 51 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 5,348 food manufacturing jobs by the 42 warehousing sites gives 127.3; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 0.06% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 1,667 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 42 Vermont sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 3,422 warehousing jobs, which is 2,365 more than the 1,057 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Massachusetts, Vermont has 19,638 fewer warehousing jobs, 206 fewer sites and 23,688 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Massachusetts site holds 83.4 jobs and the typical Vermont site 25.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.06 here and 1.40 there.
• Against New Hampshire, Vermont has 2,226 fewer warehousing jobs, 54 fewer sites and 2,574 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical New Hampshire site holds 34.2 jobs and the typical Vermont site 25.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.06 here and 0.84 there.
• Against New York, Vermont has 54,314 fewer warehousing jobs, 791 fewer sites and 54,968 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical New York site holds 66.5 jobs and the typical Vermont site 25.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 5.06 here and 1.09 there.

• Dairy product manufacturing employs 2,148 in Vermont, 1.3% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.03 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 5,348 in Vermont, 0.30% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 5.06 of these jobs.

• Franklin is 1st of the counties shown with 342 warehousing jobs, which is 13.6 times the average Vermont site headcount of 25 and 0.02% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Chittenden is 2nd of the counties shown with 227 warehousing jobs, which is 9.0 times the average Vermont site headcount of 25 and 0.01% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Windham is 3rd of the counties shown with 21 warehousing jobs, which is 0.8 times the average Vermont site headcount of 25 and 0.00% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Vermont begin with 050 to 059.
• 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.