Used plastic pallets in Los Angeles

Los Angeles by county

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim spans 2 counties (Orange, Los Angeles). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 27,225 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 0.5% of local private jobs.

Los Angeles 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, 205 between them. 90670 (Santa Fe Springs) leads with 55, 27% of the listed total.

• 90670 Santa Fe Springs: 55 warehousing establishments, 1.0 times 90058.
• 90058 Los Angeles: 53 warehousing establishments, 96% of the count in 90670.
• 91789 Walnut: 39 warehousing establishments, 71% of the count in 90670.
• 91748 Rowland Heights: 31 warehousing establishments, 56% of the count in 90670.
• 90040 Los Angeles: 27 warehousing establishments, 49% of the count in 90670.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 27,225 jobs counted for Los Angeles may understate the metro.

• Los Angeles ranks 15th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 27,225 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 2 counties, that is 13,613 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Los Angeles County holds 73% of the metro's jobs and Orange County 27%; the gap between them is 12,683 jobs.
• 90670 has 55 warehousing establishments, 2.0 times as many as 90040 (27) at the other end of the list.
• California has 236,923 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Los Angeles are 11% of the state.
• Warehousing is 0.5% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• 2 Interstates in the data serve the metro, and together they carry 342,905 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Memphis (27,742, 517 above) and Seattle-Tacoma (23,062, 4,163 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 90670, 90058, 91789, hold 147 of the 205 establishments in the ZIP list, or 72%.
• The ZIP list spans 4 towns, led by Los Angeles (80) and Santa Fe Springs (55).
• The ZIP list averages 41.0 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 90040 Los Angeles, has 27.
• Of the 2 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 27,225 of the 27,225 jobs counted.
• Los Angeles has 2.0 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 199 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 2 counties.

Where Los Angeles ranks

Los Angeles and the 14 metros above it hold 61% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Los Angeles

Interstate 10 and Interstate 5 are the Interstates in our data that serve Los Angeles.

Other metros nearby

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

The ladder around Los Angeles

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

Los Angeles's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, grocery and related product wholesale is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, at 1.3x. Grocery wholesale runs on the 48 x 40 GMA footprint through racks, trailers and conveyors.

• Grocery and related product wholesale: 44,471 jobs in the disclosed counties, 5.4% of the 829,364 across the US, or 1.63 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 46,988 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.6% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.73 for every warehousing job here.

Planning around the seasons

• Cold months bring brittle resin, so handle gently and avoid sharp drops.
• Warm months soften decks, so shorten stacks and keep loads in shade.
• Harvest, holiday and promotion peaks use pallets faster, so order earlier.
• Wet seasons add weight in the ribs, so allow a drying day before indoor use.
• Plan returns and exports for the weeks when dock space is free.

What to send for a Los Angeles lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in
• Grade: used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 90670 or 90058
• Quantity band

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