Used plastic pallets in Northern New Jersey

Northern New Jersey's warehousing belt

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Northern New Jersey and you reach 39,367 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 2.4% of the metro's private work. The area covers 6 counties: Middlesex, Essex, Union, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic.

Northern New Jersey against New Jersey

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

Where a Northern New Jersey lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 146 between them. 08817 (Edison) leads with 41, 28% of the listed total.

• 08817 Edison: 41 warehousing establishments, 1.5 times 07094.
• 07094 Secaucus: 28 warehousing establishments, 68% of the count in 08817.
• 08810 Dayton: 27 warehousing establishments, 66% of the count in 08817.
• 08837 Edison: 26 warehousing establishments, 63% of the count in 08817.
• 08512 Cranbury: 24 warehousing establishments, 59% of the count in 08817.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Northern New Jersey's figure of 39,367 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Northern New Jersey ranks 7th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 39,367 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 6 counties, that is 6,561 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Middlesex County holds 67% of the metro's jobs and Hudson County 11%; the gap between them is 21,965 jobs.
• 08817 has 41 warehousing establishments, 1.7 times as many as 08512 (24) at the other end of the list.
• New Jersey has 76,152 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Northern New Jersey are 52% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.4% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• 2 Interstates in the data serve the metro, and together they carry 283,646 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Indianapolis (41,067, 1,700 above) and Philadelphia (38,250, 1,117 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 08817, 07094, 08810, hold 96 of the 146 establishments in the ZIP list, or 66%.
• The ZIP list spans 4 towns, led by Edison (67) and Secaucus (28).
• The ZIP list averages 29.2 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 08512 Cranbury, has 24.
• Of the 6 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 34,233 of the 39,367 jobs counted.
• Northern New Jersey has 2.9 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 41 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 6 counties.

Where Northern New Jersey ranks

Northern New Jersey and the 6 metros above it hold 39% 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 Northern New Jersey

Interstate 95 and Interstate 80 are the Interstates in our data that serve Northern New Jersey.

Neighbouring metros in the data

Metros that share a corridor with Northern New Jersey, and the other metros in New Jersey, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Northern New Jersey

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Northern New Jersey with the two above it and the two below.

Local industries that use pallets

Against the national share of employment, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Northern New Jersey, at 3.6x. Pharma shippers want pallets they can sanitise, with papers on resin and colour; some prefer polypropylene because it takes sterilisation.

• Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 15,663 jobs in the disclosed counties, 4.5% of the 350,886 across the US, or 0.40 for every warehousing job here.
• Refrigerated warehousing: 2,728 jobs in the disclosed counties, 3.7% of the 73,136 across the US, or 0.07 for every warehousing job here.
• Chemical manufacturing: 25,799 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.9% of the 892,426 across the US, or 0.66 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 22,444 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.7% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.57 for every warehousing job here.
• Warehousing and storage: 39,367 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.1% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

Requesting a lot for Northern New Jersey

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or a square footprint
• Grade: like new
• Dock ZIP, for example 08817 or 07094
• Quantity band

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