Used plastic pallets in Phoenix

Phoenix by county

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler and you reach 42,340 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 2.0% of the metro's private work. The area covers 2 counties: Maricopa, Pinal.

Phoenix against Arizona

The metro's disclosed-county total set beside the state's whole count, so the two can be read together.

ZIPs with the most warehouses

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 128 between them. 85043 (Phoenix) leads with 61, 48% of the listed total.

• 85043 Phoenix: 61 warehousing establishments, 2.9 times 85353.
• 85353 Tolleson: 21 warehousing establishments, 34% of the count in 85043.
• 85009 Phoenix: 20 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 85043.
• 85034 Phoenix: 15 warehousing establishments, 25% of the count in 85043.
• 85040 Phoenix: 11 warehousing establishments, 18% of the count in 85043.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 42,340 jobs counted for Phoenix may understate the metro.

• Phoenix ranks 5th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 42,340 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 2 counties, that is 21,170 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Maricopa County holds 100% of the metro's jobs and Pinal County 0.1%; the gap between them is 42,242 jobs.
• 85043 has 61 warehousing establishments, 5.5 times as many as 85040 (11) at the other end of the list.
• Arizona has 52,054 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Phoenix are 81% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.0% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• One Interstate in the data serves the metro, and it carries 255,943 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Atlanta (49,050, 6,710 above) and Indianapolis (41,067, 1,273 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 85043, 85353, 85009, hold 102 of the 128 establishments in the ZIP list, or 80%.
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by Phoenix (107) and Tolleson (21).
• The ZIP list averages 25.6 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 85040 Phoenix, has 11.
• Of the 2 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 42,340 of the 42,340 jobs counted.
• Phoenix has 3.1 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 49 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 2 counties.

Where Phoenix ranks

Phoenix and the 4 metros above it hold 32% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Phoenix

Interstate 10 is the Interstate in our data that serves Phoenix.

Neighbouring metros in the data

Metros that share a corridor with Phoenix, and the other metros in Arizona, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Phoenix

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Phoenix with the two above it and the two below.

Phoenix's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, at 1.4x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 42,340 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.2% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 13,457 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.8% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.32 for every warehousing job here.

Sorting a lot into piles

• Pile one: whole pallets with flat decks, square corners and no repairs.
• Pile two: whole pallets with a repair or a mismatched piece, kept separate and counted.
• Pile three: pallets with a crack through a load path, set aside for repair or scrap.
• Pile four: marked pallets that may belong to someone else, held until the owner is known.
• Write the pile count on a board by the stacks, and photograph it each morning.

On the receiving dock

• Count stacks before pallets, then count the pallets in two stacks to confirm the tally.
• Lay a tape across the deck and along the runners of three pallets from different stacks.
• Look for pooled marks, bar codes and moulded owner names before anything is put away.
• Sign for the count and note any shortfall on the delivery receipt in the driver's presence.
• Photograph the stacks from both ends while the trailer doors are still open.

Requesting a lot for Phoenix

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 85043 or 85353
• Quantity band

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