Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Virginia

Measured against the national total for each industry, Virginia is strongest in warehousing and storage, with 2.7% of the US jobs, and weakest in food manufacturing, with 1.8%. The state holds 2.69% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Suffolk city holds 13.2% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 28.0%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

Virginia stands 931 jobs behind Arizona and 9,010 ahead of Nevada. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Virginia sits 2.2 times above that line.

• The average Virginia warehousing site employs 97 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 1.2 times the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.64 people for every warehousing job in Virginia; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 7,319 jobs in Virginia, 0.9% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 2,939 jobs, 0.84% of the national 350,886, which makes it 26th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 1,408 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 Virginia has 21.6% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Virginia is 15th of fifty, and by average site size it is 8th, so its sites are larger than its site count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Virginia ranks 23rd with 32,684 jobs, 1.8% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 14,336 of the state's 51,123 warehousing jobs, so 36,787 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Virginia often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Virginia's 51,123, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

The table sets Virginia 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, Virginia would have to lose 27,912; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 223.
• Its 2.69% of US warehousing jobs compares with 1.84% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 0.69: warehouses weigh more here than food plants do.
• If each of the 529 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 6,348 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Virginia fall in 201 and 220 to 246, 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 51,123 jobs, 1.00 for every warehousing job and 97 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 32,684 food manufacturing jobs by the 529 warehousing sites gives 61.8; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 2.69% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 37 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 529 Virginia sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 43,099 warehousing jobs, which is 8,024 fewer than the 51,123 it has. Its sites are larger than the national average.

• Against Kentucky, Virginia has 12,842 more warehousing jobs, 99 more sites and 1,411 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Kentucky site holds 89.0 jobs and the typical Virginia site 96.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 0.82 there.
• Against Maryland, Virginia has 21,157 more warehousing jobs, 284 more sites and 13,084 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Maryland site holds 122.3 jobs and the typical Virginia site 96.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 0.65 there.
• Against North Carolina, Virginia has 3,428 fewer warehousing jobs, 61 fewer sites and 28,757 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical North Carolina site holds 92.5 jobs and the typical Virginia site 96.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 1.13 there.
• Against Tennessee, Virginia has 2,304 fewer warehousing jobs, 113 fewer sites and 7,636 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Tennessee site holds 83.2 jobs and the typical Virginia site 96.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 0.75 there.
• Against West Virginia, Virginia has 47,492 more warehousing jobs, 429 more sites and 29,048 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical West Virginia site holds 36.3 jobs and the typical Virginia site 96.6; food jobs per warehousing job run 0.64 here and 1.00 there.

• Warehousing and storage employs 51,123 in Virginia, 2.7% of the 1,901,976 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 1.00 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 32,684 in Virginia, 1.8% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.64 of these jobs.

• Suffolk city is 1st of the counties shown with 6,757 warehousing jobs, which is 69.9 times the average Virginia site headcount of 97 and 0.36% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Chesapeake city is 2nd of the counties shown with 3,851 warehousing jobs, which is 39.8 times the average Virginia site headcount of 97 and 0.20% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Chesterfield is 3rd of the counties shown with 3,728 warehousing jobs, which is 38.6 times the average Virginia site headcount of 97 and 0.20% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Virginia begin with 201 and 220 to 246.
• 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.