Used plastic pallets in Atlanta

Atlanta by county

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell and you reach 49,050 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 1.9% of the metro's private work. The area covers 29 counties: Barrow, Butts, Carroll, Clayton, Coweta, Dawson....

Atlanta against Georgia

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, 176 between them. 30253 (Mcdonough) leads with 51, 29% of the listed total.

• 30253 Mcdonough: 51 warehousing establishments, 1.2 times 30336.
• 30336 Atlanta: 44 warehousing establishments, 86% of the count in 30253.
• 30297 Forest Park: 28 warehousing establishments, 55% of the count in 30253.
• 30213 Fairburn: 27 warehousing establishments, 53% of the count in 30253.
• 30349 Atlanta: 26 warehousing establishments, 51% of the count in 30253.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 49,050 jobs counted for Atlanta may understate the metro.

• Atlanta ranks 4th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 49,050 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 29 counties, that is 1,691 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Fulton County holds 37% of the metro's jobs and Henry County 16%; the gap between them is 10,413 jobs.
• 30253 has 51 warehousing establishments, 2.0 times as many as 30349 (26) at the other end of the list.
• Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Atlanta are 58% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.9% 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 208,851 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Chicago (59,586, 10,536 above) and Phoenix (42,340, 6,710 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 30253, 30336, 30297, hold 123 of the 176 establishments in the ZIP list, or 70%.
• The ZIP list spans 4 towns, led by Atlanta (70) and Mcdonough (51).
• The ZIP list averages 35.2 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 30349 Atlanta, has 26.
• Of the 29 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 32,422 of the 49,050 jobs counted.
• Atlanta has 3.6 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 52 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 29 counties.

Where Atlanta ranks

Atlanta and the 3 metros above it hold 28% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Atlanta

Interstate 85 and Interstate 75 are the Interstates in our data that serve Atlanta.

Neighbouring metros in the data

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

The ladder around Atlanta

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

Atlanta's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, at 1.4x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 49,050 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.6% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 22,288 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.3% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.45 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.

Requesting a lot for Atlanta

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 30253 or 30336
• Quantity band

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