Used plastic pallets in Reno

Reno by county

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Reno and you reach 12,269 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 5.0% of the metro's private work. The area covers 3 counties: Lyon, Storey, Washoe.

Reno against Nevada

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, 84 between them. 89506 (Reno) leads with 22, 26% of the listed total.

• 89506 Reno: 22 warehousing establishments, 1.0 times 89431.
• 89431 Sparks: 21 warehousing establishments, 95% of the count in 89506.
• 89434 Sparks: 20 warehousing establishments, 91% of the count in 89506.
• 89521 Reno: 12 warehousing establishments, 55% of the count in 89506.
• 89502 Reno: 9 warehousing establishments, 41% of the count in 89506.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 12,269 jobs counted for Reno may understate the metro.

• Reno ranks 33rd of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 12,269 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 3 counties, that is 4,090 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Washoe County holds 79% of the metro's jobs and Storey County 21%; the gap between them is 7,055 jobs.
• 89506 has 22 warehousing establishments, 2.4 times as many as 89502 (9) at the other end of the list.
• Nevada has 42,113 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Reno are 29% of the state.
• Warehousing is 5.0% 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 Tampa (13,205, 936 above) and Pittsburgh (9,826, 2,443 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 89506, 89431, 89434, hold 63 of the 84 establishments in the ZIP list, or 75%.
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by Reno (43) and Sparks (41).
• The ZIP list averages 16.8 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 89502 Reno, has 9.
• Of the 3 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 12,269 of the 12,269 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 1.1 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Reno has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 19 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 3 counties.

Where Reno ranks

Reno and the 32 metros above it hold 89% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Reno

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

Neighbouring metros in the data

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

The ladder around Reno

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

Reno's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Reno, at 3.5x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 12,269 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.6% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 2,659 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.1% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.22 for every warehousing job here.

Paperwork to keep

• The written lot description and the date it was sent.
• Your own count, signed and dated by whoever received the load.
• Photographs of stacks, plates and any marks, stored with the order number.
• The maker's papers for resin, colour or rating, where the job needs them.
• A line naming who agreed to which exceptions, so a later dispute has a record.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

Requesting a lot for Reno

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 89506 or 89431
• Quantity band

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