Used plastic pallets in North Dakota

What the jobs data shows for North Dakota

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts private employers in North Dakota at 1,438 warehousing and storage jobs across 61 establishments in 2025, about 23.6 jobs per establishment.

• Cass County: 1,186 warehousing jobs, 82% of North Dakota and 0.06% of the country, 16.2 times Grand Forks County.
• Grand Forks County: 73 warehousing jobs, 5.1% of North Dakota and 0.00% of the country, 6% of the size of Cass County.
• Traill County: 28 warehousing jobs, 1.9% of North Dakota and 0.00% of the country, 2% of the size of Cass County.

North Dakota against the country

North Dakota'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 North Dakota are a floor and not the whole of its 1,438 jobs.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 89% of North Dakota's jobs in the line, and Cass County alone holds 82%.
• The average warehouse in North Dakota employs 23.6 people where the national average is 81.5, a gap of 71 percent below it.
• Food manufacturing employs 3.87 people for every warehousing job in North Dakota; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• North Dakota holds 0.31% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.08% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Refrigerated space works out at 6,954 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• Cass County's 1,186 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 3 other states, the largest being Vermont at 1,057.
• Hawaii runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 22.8 jobs per establishment against 23.6 here.
• For food manufacturing, Maine is the closest match at 5,673 jobs, 109 above North Dakota's 5,564.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for North Dakota is Traill County with 28 jobs; the largest has 42.4 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; North Dakota holds 0.08%, which is 0.04 times an even share.
• Wyoming sits above North Dakota with 536 more warehousing jobs, and Hawaii sits below with 140 fewer.

Where North Dakota ranks

North Dakota is one of the 5 smallest states by warehousing jobs. The median state has 23,211, so North Dakota is 21,772 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 165 times as many.

The pallet-using lines in North Dakota

By location quotient North Dakota leans hardest on food manufacturing (1.2x the national share). Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Food manufacturing: 5,564 jobs in North Dakota, 0.31% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 3.87 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 1,946 jobs in North Dakota, 0.23% of the 829,364 across the US, or 1.35 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around North Dakota

States are ranked by warehousing and storage jobs. North Dakota is 46th of 50; the table shows the two states above it and the two below.

North Dakota has no metro page

North Dakota 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 North Dakota

USDA counted 10 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in North Dakota on 1 October 2025, 31st among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Quantity: a band, from a few pallet-loads to a truck
• ZIP: the North Dakota receiving ZIP

Other states

• Alaska
• Hawaii
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Minnesota
• Nevada
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Utah
• Virginia

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