Used plastic pallets in Fresno

Fresno by county

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Fresno and you reach 5,006 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 1.3% of the metro's private work. The area covers 2 counties: Fresno, Madera.

Fresno against California

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, 51 between them. 93725 (Fresno) leads with 30, 59% of the listed total.

• 93725 Fresno: 30 warehousing establishments, 4.3 times 93727.
• 93727 Fresno: 7 warehousing establishments, 23% of the count in 93725.
• 93706 Fresno: 6 warehousing establishments, 20% of the count in 93725.
• 93654 Reedley: 5 warehousing establishments, 17% of the count in 93725.
• 93711 Fresno: 3 warehousing establishments, 10% of the count in 93725.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 5,006 jobs counted for Fresno may understate the metro.

• Fresno ranks 46th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 5,006 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 2 counties, that is 2,503 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 93725 has 30 warehousing establishments, 10.0 times as many as 93711 (3) at the other end of the list.
• California has 236,923 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Fresno are 2.1% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.3% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• The metros closest in size are Omaha (5,157, 151 above) and Greenville-Spartanburg (4,575, 431 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 93725, 93727, 93706, hold 43 of the 51 establishments in the ZIP list, or 84%.
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by Fresno (46) and Reedley (5).
• The ZIP list averages 10.2 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 93711 Fresno, has 3.
• Of the 2 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 1 for warehousing, which together account for 5,006 of the 5,006 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 2.7 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Fresno has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 76 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 2 counties.

Where Fresno ranks

Fresno and the 45 metros above it hold 97% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Fresno

No Interstate corridor in our data lists Fresno, so the county and ZIP figures carry this page.

The ladder around Fresno

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

Fresno's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, fruit and vegetable preserving is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Fresno, at 6.5x. Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Fruit and vegetable preserving: 3,355 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.9% of the 173,844 across the US, or 0.67 for every warehousing job here.
• Meat and poultry processing: 6,499 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.2% of the 556,647 across the US, or 1.30 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 13,497 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.8% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 2.70 for every warehousing job here.
• Beverage manufacturing: 1,655 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.5% of the 316,938 across the US, or 0.33 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 4,304 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.5% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.86 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 Fresno

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 93725 or 93727
• Quantity band

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