Used plastic pallets in Jacksonville

Jacksonville's warehousing belt

Jacksonville spans 5 counties (Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, St. Johns). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 15,384 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 2.3% of local private jobs.

Jacksonville against Florida

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

Where a Jacksonville lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 78 between them. 32218 (Jacksonville) leads with 23, 29% of the listed total.

• 32218 Jacksonville: 23 warehousing establishments, 1.3 times 32254.
• 32254 Jacksonville: 18 warehousing establishments, 78% of the count in 32218.
• 32219 Jacksonville: 14 warehousing establishments, 61% of the count in 32218.
• 32220 Jacksonville: 13 warehousing establishments, 57% of the count in 32218.
• 32256 Jacksonville: 10 warehousing establishments, 43% of the count in 32218.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Jacksonville's figure of 15,384 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Jacksonville ranks 28th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 15,384 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 5 counties, that is 3,077 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 32218 has 23 warehousing establishments, 2.3 times as many as 32256 (10) at the other end of the list.
• Florida has 105,401 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Jacksonville are 15% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.3% 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 383,809 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Denver (15,858, 474 above) and Louisville (14,533, 851 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 32218, 32254, 32219, hold 55 of the 78 establishments in the ZIP list, or 71%.
• The ZIP list averages 15.6 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 32256 Jacksonville, has 10.
• Of the 5 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 1 for warehousing, which together account for 15,372 of the 15,384 jobs counted.
• Jacksonville has 1.1 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 42 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 5 counties.

Where Jacksonville ranks

Jacksonville and the 27 metros above it hold 83% 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 Jacksonville

Interstate 95 and Interstate 10 are the Interstates in our data that serve Jacksonville.

Other metros nearby

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

The ladder around Jacksonville

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville, at 1.6x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 15,384 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.8% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 3,198 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.21 for every warehousing job here.

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.

What to write down about a lot

• Footprint in both units, with the readings you took rather than the label.
• Number of stacks, pallets per stack and any odd stacks left over.
• Makers and model numbers seen on plates or moulded into the ribs.
• Count of repaired, mismatched or cracked pieces, and where each sits.
• Marks, colours and any smell, with a note on who confirmed each.

What to send for a Jacksonville lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 32218 or 32254
• Quantity band

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