Used plastic pallets in Mississippi

What the jobs data shows for Mississippi

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in Mississippi at 25,454 warehousing and storage jobs across 305 establishments in 2025, about 83.5 jobs per establishment.

• DeSoto County: 11,634 warehousing jobs, 46% of Mississippi and 0.61% of the country, 2.7 times Madison County.
• Madison County: 4,239 warehousing jobs, 17% of Mississippi and 0.22% of the country, 36% of the size of DeSoto County.
• Marshall County: 3,876 warehousing jobs, 15% of Mississippi and 0.20% of the country, 33% of the size of DeSoto County.

Mississippi against the country

Mississippi's figures sit on the left and the national totals beside them, so each share and rank shows how much of the country's pallet work lands here.

What the ratios say

Disclosure rules in the BLS data hide small counties, so the county totals for Mississippi are a floor and not the whole of its 25,454 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 78% of Mississippi's jobs in the line, and DeSoto County alone holds 46%.
• The average warehouse in Mississippi employs 83.5 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 2 percent above it.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.97 people for every warehousing job in Mississippi; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Mississippi holds 1.4% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 1.3% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 1,138 jobs, 0.32% of the US total.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 5,745 jobs in Mississippi, 2.0% of the US total, with another 4,926 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 550 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• DeSoto County's 11,634 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 14 other states, the largest being Nebraska at 8,246.
• Massachusetts runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 83.4 jobs per establishment against 83.5 here.
• For food manufacturing, Utah is the closest match at 23,423 jobs, 1,304 below Mississippi's 24,727.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Mississippi is Marshall County with 3,876 jobs; the largest has 3.0 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Mississippi holds 1.34%, which is 0.67 times an even share.
• Missouri sits above Mississippi with 1,272 more warehousing jobs, and Connecticut sits below with 327 fewer.

Where Mississippi ranks

Mississippi and the 22 states above it hold 85% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Mississippi is 2,244 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 9 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in Mississippi

By location quotient Mississippi leans hardest on meat and poultry processing (4.7x the national share). 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: 18,648 jobs in Mississippi, 3.4% of the 556,647 across the US, or 0.73 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Motor vehicle manufacturing: 5,745 jobs in Mississippi, 2.0% of the 288,633 across the US, or 0.23 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 24,727 jobs in Mississippi, 1.4% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.97 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 25,454 jobs in Mississippi, 1.3% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: 4,926 jobs in Mississippi, 0.95% of the 521,212 across the US, or 0.19 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Mississippi

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. Mississippi is 23rd of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

Mississippi has no metro page

Mississippi has no page for a single metro, since none of the sixty in the data lies inside it. Requests from anywhere in the state are read as they come, and the reply says how a lot would travel.

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 Mississippi

USDA counted 14 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Mississippi on 1 October 2025, 30th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Quantity: a band, from a few pallet-loads to a truck
• ZIP: the Mississippi receiving ZIP

Other states

• Alaska
• Delaware
• Hawaii
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Pennsylvania
• South Dakota

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