Used plastic pallets in Inland Empire

Where the warehouses are in Inland Empire

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Inland Empire and you reach 118,368 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 8.4% of the metro's private work. The area covers 2 counties: Riverside, San Bernardino.

Inland Empire against California

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

Inland Empire ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 302 between them. 91761 (Ontario) leads with 122, 40% of the listed total.

• 91761 Ontario: 122 warehousing establishments, 2.4 times 91710.
• 91710 Chino: 51 warehousing establishments, 42% of the count in 91761.
• 91752 Mira Loma: 46 warehousing establishments, 38% of the count in 91761.
• 91730 Rancho Cucamonga: 42 warehousing establishments, 34% of the count in 91761.
• 92337 Fontana: 41 warehousing establishments, 34% of the count in 91761.

What the ratios say

County totals for Inland Empire are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 118,368 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Inland Empire ranks 1st of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 118,368 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 2 counties, that is 59,184 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• San Bernardino County holds 57% of the metro's jobs and Riverside County 43%; the gap between them is 15,748 jobs.
• 91761 has 122 warehousing establishments, 3.0 times as many as 92337 (41) at the other end of the list.
• California has 236,923 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Inland Empire are 50% of the state.
• Warehousing is 8.4% 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 Dallas-Fort Worth (82,593, 35,775 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 91761, 91710, 91752, hold 219 of the 302 establishments in the ZIP list, or 73%.
• The ZIP list spans 5 towns, led by Ontario (122) and Chino (51).
• The ZIP list averages 60.4 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 92337 Fontana, has 41.
• Of the 2 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 118,368 of the 118,368 jobs counted.
• Inland Empire has 8.7 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 11 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 2 counties.

Where Inland Empire ranks

Inland Empire and the 0 metros above it hold 11% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around Inland Empire

Interstate 10 is the Interstate in our data that serves Inland Empire.

Neighbouring metros in the data

Metros that share a corridor with Inland Empire, and the other metros in California, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Inland Empire

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

Who buys pallets around Inland Empire

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Inland Empire, at 5.9x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 118,368 jobs in the disclosed counties, 6.2% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Refrigerated warehousing: 1,565 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.1% of the 73,136 across the US, or 0.01 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 13,219 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.6% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.11 for every warehousing job here.
• Plastics product manufacturing: 8,907 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.5% of the 575,006 across the US, or 0.08 for every warehousing job here.

Comparing two lots fairly

• Use the same footprint for both, measured in the same units.
• Compare grade by wear, not by the seller's letter.
• Count makers present in each, since fewer makers means a more uniform lot.
• Compare the share of repaired pieces, and where the repairs sit.
• Set freight, timing and handling beside the wear, rather than in place of it.

Yard storage and weather

• Rain does little harm to plastic, but standing water in the ribs adds weight and breeds odours.
• Freezing weather makes some resins brittle, so avoid dropping or hard-forking cold pallets.
• Hot sun softens decks under load, which is how a stack ends up bowed.
• Wind can topple tall unstrapped stacks, so strap them or keep them short.
• Mud and grit on runners wear floors and conveyors, so brush them off before indoor use.

Requesting a lot for Inland Empire

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 91761 or 91710
• Quantity band

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