Used plastic pallets in Omaha

Omaha's warehousing belt

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Omaha and you reach 5,157 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 1.2% of the metro's private work. The area covers 8 counties: Harrison, Mills, Pottawattamie, Cass, Douglas, Sarpy....

Omaha against Nebraska

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

Where a Omaha lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 25 between them. 68138 (Omaha) leads with 10, 40% of the listed total.

• 68138 Omaha: 10 warehousing establishments, 2.5 times 68137.
• 68137 Omaha: 4 warehousing establishments, 40% of the count in 68138.
• 68128 La Vista: 4 warehousing establishments, 40% of the count in 68138.
• 68127 Omaha: 4 warehousing establishments, 40% of the count in 68138.
• 68122 Omaha: 3 warehousing establishments, 30% of the count in 68138.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Omaha's figure of 5,157 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Omaha ranks 45th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 5,157 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 8 counties, that is 645 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Sarpy County holds 70% of the metro's jobs and Douglas County 24%; the gap between them is 2,361 jobs.
• 68138 has 10 warehousing establishments, 3.3 times as many as 68122 (3) at the other end of the list.
• Nebraska has 8,246 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Omaha are 63% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.2% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• One Interstate in the data serves the metro, and it carries 155,780 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Austin (5,657, 500 above) and Fresno (5,006, 151 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 68138, 68137, 68128, hold 18 of the 25 establishments in the ZIP list, or 72%.
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by Omaha (21) and La Vista (4).
• The ZIP list averages 5.0 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 68122 Omaha, has 3.
• Of the 8 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 5,157 of the 5,157 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 2.6 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Omaha has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 82 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 8 counties.

Where Omaha ranks

Omaha and the 44 metros above it hold 97% 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 Omaha

Interstate 80 is the Interstate in our data that serves Omaha.

Neighbouring metros in the data

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

The ladder around Omaha

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

Local industries that use pallets

Against the national share of employment, meat and poultry processing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Omaha, at 5.3x. 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: 9,556 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.7% of the 556,647 across the US, or 1.85 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 14,636 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.8% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 2.84 for every warehousing job here.

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.

Requesting a lot for Omaha

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 68138 or 68137
• Quantity band

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