Used plastic pallets in Stockton

Stockton's warehousing belt

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Stockton-Lodi and you reach 28,518 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 11.7% of the metro's private work. The area covers 1 county: San Joaquin.

Stockton against California

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

Where a Stockton lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 85 between them. 95206 (Stockton) leads with 24, 28% of the listed total.

• 95206 Stockton: 24 warehousing establishments, 1.3 times 95330.
• 95330 Lathrop: 19 warehousing establishments, 79% of the count in 95206.
• 95304 Tracy: 18 warehousing establishments, 75% of the count in 95206.
• 95215 Stockton: 14 warehousing establishments, 58% of the count in 95206.
• 95377 Tracy: 10 warehousing establishments, 42% of the count in 95206.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Stockton's figure of 28,518 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Stockton ranks 12th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 28,518 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 1 county, that is 28,518 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 95206 has 24 warehousing establishments, 2.4 times as many as 95377 (10) at the other end of the list.
• California has 236,923 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Stockton are 12% of the state.
• Warehousing is 11.7% 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 86,962 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Detroit (30,083, 1,565 above) and Las Vegas (28,250, 268 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 95206, 95330, 95304, hold 61 of the 85 establishments in the ZIP list, or 72%.
• The ZIP list spans 3 towns, led by Stockton (38) and Tracy (28).
• The ZIP list averages 17.0 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 95377 Tracy, has 10.
• Stockton has 2.1 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 8 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across the one county.

Where Stockton ranks

Stockton and the 11 metros above it hold 53% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

The roads a lot travels in Stockton

Interstate 5 is the Interstate in our data that serves Stockton.

Neighbouring metros in the data

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

The ladder around Stockton

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

Local industries that use pallets

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Stockton-Lodi, at 8.2x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 28,518 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.5% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Beverage manufacturing: 3,063 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.0% of the 316,938 across the US, or 0.11 for every warehousing job here.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving: 1,000 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.6% of the 173,844 across the US, or 0.04 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 3,356 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.12 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 6,026 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.21 for every warehousing job here.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Requesting a lot for Stockton

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 95206 or 95330
• Quantity band

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