Used plastic pallets in New Hampshire

What the jobs data shows for New Hampshire

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in New Hampshire at 3,283 warehousing and storage jobs across 96 establishments in 2025, about 34.2 jobs per establishment.

• Rockingham County: 1,838 warehousing jobs, 56% of New Hampshire and 0.10% of the country, 3.7 times Merrimack County.
• Merrimack County: 497 warehousing jobs, 15% of New Hampshire and 0.03% of the country, 27% of the size of Rockingham County.
• Strafford County: 316 warehousing jobs, 9.6% of New Hampshire and 0.02% of the country, 17% of the size of Rockingham County.

New Hampshire against the country

New Hampshire'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 New Hampshire are a floor and not the whole of its 3,283 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 81% of New Hampshire's jobs in the line, and Rockingham County alone holds 56%.
• The average warehouse in New Hampshire employs 34.2 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 58 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.84 people for every warehousing job in New Hampshire; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• New Hampshire holds 0.16% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.17% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 2,222 jobs, 0.63% of the US total.
• Rockingham County's 1,838 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 5 other states, the largest being North Dakota at 1,438.
• West Virginia runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 36.3 jobs per establishment against 34.2 here.
• For food manufacturing, Montana is the closest match at 2,492 jobs, 282 below New Hampshire's 2,774.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for New Hampshire is Strafford County with 316 jobs; the largest has 5.8 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; New Hampshire holds 0.17%, which is 0.09 times an even share.
• West Virginia sits above New Hampshire with 348 more warehousing jobs, and South Dakota sits below with 14 fewer.

Where New Hampshire ranks

New Hampshire is one of the 9 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so New Hampshire is 19,927 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 72 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in New Hampshire

By location quotient New Hampshire leans hardest on plastics product manufacturing (1.6x the national share). Plastics plants are both pallet buyers and recyclers: broken pallets are bought by weight as HDPE or PP feedstock.

• Plastics product manufacturing: 4,093 jobs in New Hampshire, 0.71% of the 575,006 across the US, or 1.25 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 2,222 jobs in New Hampshire, 0.63% of the 350,886 across the US, or 0.68 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around New Hampshire

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. New Hampshire is 42nd of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

New Hampshire has no metro page

New Hampshire 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.

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.

What to write down about a lot

• Footprint in both units, with the readings you took rather than the label.
• Number of stacks, pallets per stack and any odd stacks left over.
• Makers and model numbers seen on plates or moulded into the ribs.
• Count of repaired, mismatched or cracked pieces, and where each sits.
• Marks, colours and any smell, with a note on who confirmed each.

What to put on a request from New Hampshire

USDA published no refrigerated warehouse figure for New Hampshire in its October 2025 count, so this page makes no cold-storage claim.

• Start with the footprint: whatever the plant ships on
• Then the grade: a mixed lot or a broken lot
• Give the receiving ZIP in New Hampshire
• Name a quantity band, a few pallet-loads up to a truck

Other states

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Delaware
• Florida
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Nebraska
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Utah

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