Used plastic pallets in Gainesville, GA

Where the warehouses are in Gainesville, GA

Gainesville, Georgia spans 1 county (Hall). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 656 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 0.7% of local private jobs.

Gainesville, GA against Georgia

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

Gainesville, GA ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 2 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 9 between them. 30507 (Gainesville) leads with 5, 56% of the listed total.

• 30507 Gainesville: 5 warehousing establishments, 1.3 times 30501.
• 30501 Gainesville: 4 warehousing establishments, 80% of the count in 30507.

What the ratios say

County totals for Gainesville, Georgia are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 656 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Gainesville, GA ranks 58th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 656 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 1 county, that is 656 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 30507 has 5 warehousing establishments, 1.3 times as many as 30501 (4) at the other end of the list.
• Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Gainesville, GA are 0.8% of the state.
• Warehousing is 0.7% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• The metros closest in size are Yakima (1,309, 653 above) and Green Bay (584, 72 below).
• The ZIP list averages 4.5 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 2 ZIPs, and the quietest, 30501 Gainesville, has 4.
• Reaching the median metro would take 20.8 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Gainesville, GA has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 142 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across the one county.

Where Gainesville, GA ranks

Gainesville, GA is one of the 3 smallest of the 60 metros by disclosed warehousing jobs. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368, which is 180 times as many.

Highways around Gainesville, GA

No Interstate corridor in our data lists Gainesville, GA, so the county and ZIP figures carry this page.

The ladder around Gainesville, GA

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Gainesville, GA with the two above it and the two below.

Who buys pallets around Gainesville, GA

Against the national share of employment, meat and poultry processing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Gainesville, Georgia, at 28.9x. 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: 11,123 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.0% of the 556,647 across the US, or 16.96 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 13,771 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.8% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 20.99 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 1,069 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.1% of the 829,364 across the US, or 1.63 for every warehousing job here.

Wear you can measure

• Deck bow: lay the straight edge across and slide a feeler between it and the deck.
• Runner flattening: compare the thickness of a worn runner with an unworn one.
• Corner loss: hold a square against the corner and note any missing plastic.
• Pocket height: measure the opening at both ends of each fork pocket.
• Weight: weigh three pallets on a platform scale and note the spread.

Photographs worth taking

• One wide shot of each stack with a tape or a person for scale.
• The four corners of a sample pallet, close enough to show gouges.
• The underside, including the runners and the bottom of each fork pocket.
• Any plate, label, moulded number or mark, shot square on and in raking light.
• Repairs and cracks, with a coin or a ruler beside them to show size.

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.

What to send for a Gainesville, GA lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 30507 or 30501
• Quantity band

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