Used plastic pallets in Idaho

Idaho in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and Idaho has 146 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 2,445 jobs between them and 16.7 per site on average.

• Ada County: 1,025 warehousing jobs, 42% of Idaho and 0.05% of the country, 1.6 times Canyon County.
• Canyon County: 654 warehousing jobs, 27% of Idaho and 0.03% of the country, 64% of the size of Ada County.
• Bonneville County: 175 warehousing jobs, 7.2% of Idaho and 0.01% of the country, 17% of the size of Ada County.

Idaho against the country

Read across: what Idaho has, what the whole country has, the slice Idaho takes, and where that puts it in the state ranking when a rank exists.

What the ratios say

Small counties in Idaho are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 2,445 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 76% of Idaho's jobs in the line, and Ada County alone holds 42%.
• At 16.7 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, Idaho's warehouses run smaller than the national average by 80 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 8.74 people for every warehousing job in Idaho; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Idaho holds 1.2% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.13% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 365 jobs, 0.10% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 23,722 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• Ada County's 1,025 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 2 other states, the largest being Alaska at 587.
• Alaska runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 19.6 jobs per establishment against 16.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Oklahoma is the closest match at 20,047 jobs, 1,316 below Idaho's 21,363.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Idaho is Bonneville County with 175 jobs; the largest has 5.9 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Idaho holds 0.13%, which is 0.07 times an even share.
• South Dakota sits above Idaho with 824 more warehousing jobs, and Wyoming sits below with 471 fewer.

Where Idaho ranks

Idaho is one of the 7 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so Idaho is 20,765 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 97 times as many.

Who buys pallets in Idaho

Measured against the national share of employment, fruit and vegetable preserving is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Idaho, at 7.6 times the national figure. Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Fruit and vegetable preserving: 7,461 jobs in Idaho, 4.3% of the 173,844 across the US, or 3.05 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Dairy product manufacturing: 5,027 jobs in Idaho, 3.0% of the 168,222 across the US, or 2.06 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 21,363 jobs in Idaho, 1.2% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 8.74 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Idaho

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts Idaho 44th. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

Idaho has no metro page

None of the sixty logistics metros sits in Idaho, so this page serves the whole state. The reply to a request from Idaho says how a lot would reach you.

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.

Questions to put to any seller

• Where did these pallets work, and what did they carry?
• How were they sorted, and who walked the lot?
• Are any welded, riveted or fitted with replacement parts?
• Can the maker's plate be photographed on several pallets?
• Will the description be sent in writing before payment is discussed?

Asking for a lot in Idaho

USDA counted 58 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Idaho on 1 October 2025, 21st among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Start with the footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Then the grade: like new or used and clean
• Give the receiving ZIP in Idaho
• Name a quantity band, a few pallet-loads up to a truck

Other states

• Alaska
• Arkansas
• California
• Connecticut
• Hawaii
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Louisiana
• Michigan
• Mississippi
• New Mexico
• Wyoming

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