Used plastic pallets in Oklahoma City

Where the warehouses are in Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City spans 7 counties (Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain...). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 8,336 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 1.5% of local private jobs.

Oklahoma City against Oklahoma

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

Oklahoma City ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 35 between them. 73179 (Oklahoma City) leads with 9, 26% of the listed total.

• 73179 Oklahoma City: 9 warehousing establishments, 1.0 times 73127.
• 73127 Oklahoma City: 9 warehousing establishments, 100% of the count in 73179.
• 73108 Oklahoma City: 7 warehousing establishments, 78% of the count in 73179.
• 73131 Oklahoma City: 5 warehousing establishments, 56% of the count in 73179.
• 73128 Oklahoma City: 5 warehousing establishments, 56% of the count in 73179.

What the ratios say

County totals for Oklahoma City are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 8,336 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Oklahoma City ranks 36th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 8,336 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 7 counties, that is 1,191 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Oklahoma County holds 100% of the metro's jobs and Canadian County 0.3%; the gap between them is 8,278 jobs.
• 73179 has 9 warehousing establishments, 1.8 times as many as 73128 (5) at the other end of the list.
• Oklahoma has 19,669 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Oklahoma City are 42% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.5% 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 204,396 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are San Francisco-Oakland (9,473, 1,137 above) and Milwaukee (8,262, 74 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 73179, 73127, 73108, hold 25 of the 35 establishments in the ZIP list, or 71%.
• The ZIP list averages 7.0 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 73128 Oklahoma City, has 5.
• Of the 7 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 8,336 of the 8,336 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 1.6 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Oklahoma City has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 66 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 7 counties.

Where Oklahoma City ranks

Oklahoma City and the 35 metros above it hold 91% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around Oklahoma City

Interstate 40 and Interstate 35 are the Interstates in our data that serve Oklahoma City.

Other metros nearby

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

The ladder around Oklahoma City

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

Who buys pallets around Oklahoma City

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Oklahoma City, at 1.1x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 8,336 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 4,281 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.5% of the 829,364 across the US, or 0.51 for every warehousing job here.

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 send for a Oklahoma City lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 73179 or 73127
• Quantity band

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