Used plastic pallets in New Jersey

New Jersey in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and New Jersey has 911 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 76,152 jobs between them and 83.6 per site on average.

• Middlesex County: 26,309 warehousing jobs, 35% of New Jersey and 1.4% of the country, 2.5 times Burlington County.
• Burlington County: 10,713 warehousing jobs, 14% of New Jersey and 0.56% of the country, 41% of the size of Middlesex County.
• Gloucester County: 9,948 warehousing jobs, 13% of New Jersey and 0.52% of the country, 38% of the size of Middlesex County.

New Jersey against the country

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

What the ratios say

Small counties in New Jersey are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 76,152 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 62% of New Jersey's jobs in the line.
• At 83.6 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, New Jersey's warehouses run larger than the national average by 3 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.57 people for every warehousing job in New Jersey; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• New Jersey holds 2.4% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 4.0% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 30,062 jobs, 8.6% of the US total, enough to make sanitisable pallets a real part of local demand.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 167 jobs in New Jersey, 0.06% of the US total, with another 1,046 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 1,799 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 52% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Middlesex County's 26,309 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 28 other states, the largest being Mississippi at 25,454.
• Mississippi runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 83.5 jobs per establishment against 83.6 here.
• For food manufacturing, Michigan is the closest match at 44,404 jobs, 1,173 above New Jersey's 43,231.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for New Jersey is Gloucester County with 9,948 jobs; the largest has 2.6 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; New Jersey holds 4.00%, which is 2.00 times an even share.
• Illinois sits above New Jersey with 3,919 more warehousing jobs, and Indiana sits below with 8,646 fewer.

Where New Jersey ranks

New Jersey and the 7 states above it hold 52% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so New Jersey is 52,942 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 3 times as many.

Who buys pallets in New Jersey

Measured against the national share of employment, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in New Jersey, at 3.1 times the national figure. Pharma shippers want pallets they can sanitise, with papers on resin and colour; some prefer polypropylene because it takes sterilisation.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 30,062 jobs in New Jersey, 8.6% of the 350,886 across the US, or 0.39 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Refrigerated warehousing: 5,388 jobs in New Jersey, 7.4% of the 73,136 across the US, or 0.07 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Chemical manufacturing: 47,966 jobs in New Jersey, 5.4% of the 892,426 across the US, or 0.63 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 38,127 jobs in New Jersey, 4.6% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.50 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Warehousing and storage: 76,152 jobs in New Jersey, 4.0% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around New Jersey

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts New Jersey 8th. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

Metros we list in New Jersey

One metro in New Jersey has a page with ZIPs, counties and corridors.

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 New Jersey

USDA counted 137 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in New Jersey on 1 October 2025, 10th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Start with the footprint: 48 x 40 in or a square footprint
• Then the grade: like new
• Give the receiving ZIP in New Jersey
• Name a quantity band, a few pallet-loads up to a truck

Other states

• Delaware
• Georgia
• Idaho
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• Nebraska
• New Hampshire
• New York
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Vermont
• Virginia

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