Wholesale plastic pallets shipped to Wisconsin

Measured against the national total for each industry, Wisconsin is strongest in dairy product manufacturing, with 17.1% of the US jobs, and weakest in meat and poultry processing, with 2.9%. The state holds 1.74% of US warehousing jobs, so a share above that line means the industry is bigger here than the warehousing base alone suggests.

Kenosha holds 25.3% of the state's warehousing jobs, and the 3 counties shown together hold 49.1%. Counties with undisclosed data are left out, so these are floors, not complete counts.

The market dossier lists 2 metro markets in Wisconsin. ZIPs are examples of addresses inside each, drawn from Census data.

Wisconsin stands 3,637 jobs behind Washington and 3,088 ahead of Maryland. The median state has 23,211 warehousing jobs, so Wisconsin sits 1.4 times above that line.

• The average Wisconsin warehousing site employs 77 people against 81 nationally, so a typical site here is 95 percent the size of the national one.
• Food manufacturing employs 2.48 people for every warehousing job in Wisconsin; across the whole country the figure is 0.93.
• Motor vehicle assembly and parts together account for 12,299 jobs in Wisconsin, 1.5% of the 809,845 nationwide.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing adds 6,578 jobs, 1.9% of the national 350,886, which makes it 16th of the 46 states that report.
• Cold storage runs 8,985 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 Wisconsin has 14.0% of that.
• By number of warehousing establishments Wisconsin is 20th of fifty, and by average site size it is 26th, so it has more sites than its job count alone would suggest.
• In food manufacturing Wisconsin ranks 5th with 81,993 jobs, 4.6% of the US total of 1,775,008.
• The 3 counties shown hold 16,236 of the state's 33,054 warehousing jobs, so 16,818 sit in other counties or in counties whose data is not disclosed.

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

Loads for Wisconsin often share a corridor with the neighbours below. The ratio column divides the neighbour's warehousing jobs by Wisconsin's 33,054, so a ratio above 1 means a larger warehousing base across the line.

Lane pages for the neighbours: Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota.

The table sets Wisconsin 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, Wisconsin would have to lose 9,843; to reach its 306 median sites it would have to lose 122.
• Its 1.74% of US warehousing jobs compares with 4.62% of US food manufacturing jobs, a ratio of 2.66: food plants weigh more here than warehouses do.
• If each of the 428 sites took one standard 53 ft trailer of pallets a month, the state would see 5,136 trailers a year; that is an illustration of scale, not a forecast of demand.
• ZIP codes in Wisconsin fall in 530 to 549, 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 28,840 jobs, 0.87 for every warehousing job and 67 for every warehousing site.
• Dividing the 81,993 food manufacturing jobs by the 428 warehousing sites gives 191.6; across the country the same division gives 76.0.
• The state's 1.74% of US warehousing jobs equals one job in every 57 nationwide.

A thought experiment with the same data: if all 428 Wisconsin sites were the size of the average US site, at 81.5 jobs, the state would have 34,870 warehousing jobs, which is 1,816 more than the 33,054 it has. Its sites are smaller than the national average.

• Against Iowa, Wisconsin has 13,230 more warehousing jobs, 90 more sites and 21,832 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Iowa site holds 58.7 jobs and the typical Wisconsin site 77.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 2.48 here and 3.03 there.
• Against Illinois, Wisconsin has 47,017 fewer warehousing jobs, 436 fewer sites and 16,307 fewer food manufacturing jobs; the typical Illinois site holds 92.7 jobs and the typical Wisconsin site 77.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 2.48 here and 1.23 there.
• Against Michigan, Wisconsin has 7,699 fewer warehousing jobs, 148 fewer sites and 37,589 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Michigan site holds 70.8 jobs and the typical Wisconsin site 77.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 2.48 here and 1.09 there.
• Against Minnesota, Wisconsin has 15,133 more warehousing jobs, 116 more sites and 34,164 more food manufacturing jobs; the typical Minnesota site holds 57.4 jobs and the typical Wisconsin site 77.2; food jobs per warehousing job run 2.48 here and 2.67 there.

• Dairy product manufacturing employs 28,840 in Wisconsin, 17.1% of the 168,222 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.87 of these jobs.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 11,014 in Wisconsin, 6.3% of the 173,844 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.33 of these jobs.
• Plastics product manufacturing employs 29,656 in Wisconsin, 5.2% of the 575,006 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.90 of these jobs.
• Food manufacturing employs 81,993 in Wisconsin, 4.6% of the 1,775,008 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 2.48 of these jobs.
• Meat and poultry processing employs 16,349 in Wisconsin, 2.9% of the 556,647 nationwide; for every warehousing job the state has 0.49 of these jobs.

• Kenosha is 1st of the counties shown with 8,358 warehousing jobs, which is 108.2 times the average Wisconsin site headcount of 77 and 0.44% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Milwaukee is 2nd of the counties shown with 4,244 warehousing jobs, which is 55.0 times the average Wisconsin site headcount of 77 and 0.22% of all US warehousing jobs.
• Waukesha is 3rd of the counties shown with 3,634 warehousing jobs, which is 47.1 times the average Wisconsin site headcount of 77 and 0.19% of all US warehousing jobs.

• The dock address and ZIP; ZIPs in Wisconsin begin with 530 to 549.
• 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.