Used plastic pallets in Cincinnati

Where the warehouses are in Cincinnati

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Cincinnati and you reach 19,940 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 2.0% of the metro's private work. The area covers 15 counties: Dearborn, Franklin, Ohio, Boone, Bracken, Campbell....

Cincinnati against Ohio

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

Cincinnati ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 83 between them. 41048 (Hebron) leads with 28, 34% of the listed total.

• 41048 Hebron: 28 warehousing establishments, 1.4 times 45246.
• 45246 Cincinnati: 20 warehousing establishments, 71% of the count in 41048.
• 45069 West Chester: 13 warehousing establishments, 46% of the count in 41048.
• 45014 Fairfield: 11 warehousing establishments, 39% of the count in 41048.
• 41094 Walton: 11 warehousing establishments, 39% of the count in 41048.

What the ratios say

County totals for Cincinnati are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 19,940 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Cincinnati ranks 19th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 19,940 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 15 counties, that is 1,329 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Boone County holds 46% of the metro's jobs and Butler County 21%; the gap between them is 4,952 jobs.
• 41048 has 28 warehousing establishments, 2.5 times as many as 41094 (11) at the other end of the list.
• Ohio has 98,354 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Cincinnati are 20% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.0% 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 136,133 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Kansas City (20,676, 736 above) and Nashville (19,548, 392 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 41048, 45246, 45069, hold 61 of the 83 establishments in the ZIP list, or 73%.
• The ZIP list spans 5 towns, led by Hebron (28) and Cincinnati (20).
• The ZIP list averages 16.6 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 41094 Walton, has 11.
• Of the 15 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 15,752 of the 19,940 jobs counted.
• Cincinnati has 1.5 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 49 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 15 counties.

Where Cincinnati ranks

Cincinnati and the 18 metros above it hold 69% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around Cincinnati

Interstate 75 is the Interstate in our data that serves Cincinnati.

Neighbouring metros in the data

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

The ladder around Cincinnati

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

Who buys pallets around Cincinnati

Against the national share of employment, motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Cincinnati, at 2.3x. Automotive plants reuse pallets in a loop and load them heavily, so ask for static and dynamic ratings and for one maker.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: 8,880 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.7% of the 521,212 across the US, or 0.45 for every warehousing job here.
• Chemical manufacturing: 13,339 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.5% of the 892,426 across the US, or 0.67 for every warehousing job here.
• Beverage manufacturing: 3,466 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.1% of the 316,938 across the US, or 0.17 for every warehousing job here.
• Warehousing and storage: 19,940 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.0% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Requesting a lot for Cincinnati

• Footprint: 48 x 45 in to match heavy-duty bulk containers
• Grade: a uniform closed-loop lot
• Dock ZIP, for example 41048 or 45246
• Quantity band

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