Used plastic pallets in Oklahoma

Oklahoma in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and Oklahoma has 186 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 19,669 jobs between them and 105.7 per site on average.

• Oklahoma County: 8,307 warehousing jobs, 42% of Oklahoma and 0.44% of the country, 1.8 times Tulsa County.
• Tulsa County: 4,614 warehousing jobs, 23% of Oklahoma and 0.24% of the country, 56% of the size of Oklahoma County.
• Garfield County: 150 warehousing jobs, 0.76% of Oklahoma and 0.01% of the country, 2% of the size of Oklahoma County.

Oklahoma against the country

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

What the ratios say

Small counties in Oklahoma are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 19,669 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 66% of Oklahoma's jobs in the line, and Oklahoma County alone holds 42%.
• At 105.7 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, Oklahoma's warehouses run larger than the national average by 30 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.02 people for every warehousing job in Oklahoma; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Oklahoma holds 1.1% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 1.0% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 846 jobs, 0.24% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 508 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 42% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Oklahoma County's 8,307 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 14 other states, the largest being Nebraska at 8,246.
• Pennsylvania runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 106.3 jobs per establishment against 105.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Maryland is the closest match at 19,600 jobs, 447 below Oklahoma's 20,047.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Oklahoma is Garfield County with 150 jobs; the largest has 55.4 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Oklahoma holds 1.03%, which is 0.52 times an even share.
• Iowa sits above Oklahoma with 155 more warehousing jobs, and Minnesota sits below with 1,748 fewer.

Where Oklahoma ranks

Oklahoma and the 29 states above it hold 93% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Oklahoma is 3,541 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 12 times as many.

Who buys pallets in Oklahoma

Measured against the national share of employment, meat and poultry processing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Oklahoma, at 2.1 times the national figure. Wash-down plants need clean, crack-free decks. Ask whether any pallet has been repaired, since a weld bead holds residue.

• Meat and poultry processing: 11,968 jobs in Oklahoma, 2.2% of the 556,647 across the US, or 0.61 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 20,047 jobs in Oklahoma, 1.1% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.02 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Oklahoma

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts Oklahoma 30th. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

Metros we list in Oklahoma

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

Training the dock crew

• Show new staff three pallets: one acceptable, one marginal, one rejected.
• Agree on words for faults, such as crack, gouge, bow and dish, and use them.
• Tell people to stop and ask when a pallet carries any mark they do not recognise.
• Remind drivers to enter pockets squarely, since angled entry splits the pocket wall.
• Walk the dock together once a month and compare notes.

What to put on a request from Oklahoma

USDA counted 10 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Oklahoma on 1 October 2025, 32nd among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

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

Other states

• Alabama
• Arizona
• Florida
• Hawaii
• Kansas
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New York
• Oregon
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia

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