Used plastic pallets in Florida

Where Florida's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Florida employed 105,401 people at 1,249 sites in 2025, an average of 84.4 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

• Polk County: 19,862 warehousing jobs, 19% of Florida and 1.0% of the country, 1.3 times Duval County.
• Duval County: 15,372 warehousing jobs, 15% of Florida and 0.81% of the country, 77% of the size of Polk County.
• Miami-Dade County: 13,042 warehousing jobs, 12% of Florida and 0.69% of the country, 66% of the size of Polk County.

Florida against the country

Each line is Florida'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 3 counties shown for Florida understate what the state holds.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 46% of Florida's jobs in the line.
• Size of site: 84.4 jobs in the typical Florida warehouse, more than the 81.5 found across the country (4 percent more).
• Food manufacturing employs 0.37 people for every warehousing job in Florida; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Florida holds 2.2% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 5.5% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 13,320 jobs, 3.8% of the US total, enough to make sanitisable pallets a real part of local demand.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 2,050 jobs in Florida, 0.71% of the US total, with another 3,148 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 2,410 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The 4 metros below account for 61% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Polk County's 19,862 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 22 other states, the largest being Iowa at 19,824.
• New Jersey runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 83.6 jobs per establishment against 84.4 here.
• For food manufacturing, Washington is the closest match at 39,687 jobs, 297 above Florida's 39,390.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Florida is Miami-Dade County with 13,042 jobs; the largest has 1.5 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Florida holds 5.54%, which is 2.77 times an even share.
• Pennsylvania sits above Florida with 18,080 more warehousing jobs, and Ohio sits below with 7,047 fewer.

Where Florida ranks

Florida and the 3 states above it hold 34% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Florida is 82,191 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 2 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Florida

The line that stands out in Florida is warehousing and storage, 0.8 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 105,401 jobs in Florida, 5.5% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 63,967 jobs in Florida, 7.7% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.61 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Florida

At 4th of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Florida has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Metros we list in Florida

4 metros in Florida have a page with ZIPs, counties and corridors.

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.

Asking for a lot in Florida

USDA counted 254 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Florida on 1 October 2025, 5th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Start with the footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Then the grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Give the receiving ZIP in Florida
• Name a quantity band, a few pallet-loads up to a truck

Other states

• Alabama
• Arizona
• California
• Colorado
• Iowa
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Tennessee
• Utah

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