Used plastic pallets in Delaware

Where Delaware's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Delaware employed 12,495 people at 134 sites in 2025, an average of 93.2 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

Delaware against the country

Each line is Delaware's private-sector figure beside the national total, with the share it makes up and, where the data allows, its rank among the fifty states.

What the ratios say

The BLS withholds counties where a figure would identify one employer, which means the 1 counties shown for Delaware understate what the state holds.

• Sussex is the only county the BLS discloses for warehousing in Delaware, with 80 jobs, 0.64% of the state total.
• Size of site: 93.2 jobs in the typical Delaware warehouse, more than the 81.5 found across the country (14 percent more).
• Food manufacturing employs 0.89 people for every warehousing job in Delaware; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Delaware holds 0.63% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.66% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 618 jobs, 0.18% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 2,001 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• Illinois runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 92.7 jobs per establishment against 93.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, South Dakota is the closest match at 10,866 jobs, 291 below Delaware's 11,157.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Delaware holds 0.66%, which is 0.33 times an even share.
• Utah sits above Delaware with 1,188 more warehousing jobs, and Nebraska sits below with 4,249 fewer.

Where Delaware ranks

Delaware and the 35 states above it hold 98% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Delaware is 10,715 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 19 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Delaware

The line that stands out in Delaware is meat and poultry processing, 5.6 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Wash-down plants need clean, crack-free decks. Ask whether any pallet has been repaired, since a weld bead holds residue.

• Meat and poultry processing: 9,741 jobs in Delaware, 1.7% of the 556,647 across the US, or 0.78 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 12,495 jobs in Delaware, 0.66% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 11,157 jobs in Delaware, 0.63% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.89 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Delaware

At 36th of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Delaware has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Delaware has no metro page

The sixty metros in the data do not include one in Delaware. This page therefore covers every county, and the written reply to a request says how a lot would be delivered.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

Asking for a lot in Delaware

USDA counted 25 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Delaware on 1 October 2025, 27th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Ask for like new or used and clean in 48 x 40 in
• Write the Delaware ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Florida
• Georgia
• Massachusetts
• Nebraska
• New York
• North Dakota
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Virginia
• Washington

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