Used plastic pallets in Oregon

Where Oregon's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Oregon employed 16,750 people at 267 sites in 2025, an average of 62.7 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

• Multnomah County: 7,435 warehousing jobs, 44% of Oregon and 0.39% of the country, 1.8 times Marion County.
• Marion County: 4,206 warehousing jobs, 25% of Oregon and 0.22% of the country, 57% of the size of Multnomah County.
• Linn County: 1,681 warehousing jobs, 10% of Oregon and 0.09% of the country, 23% of the size of Multnomah County.

Oregon against the country

Each line is Oregon's private-sector figure beside the national total, with the share it makes up and, where the data allows, its rank among the fifty states.

What the ratios say

The BLS withholds counties where a figure would identify one employer, which means the 3 counties shown for Oregon understate what the state holds.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 80% of Oregon's jobs in the line, and Multnomah County alone holds 44%.
• Size of site: 62.7 jobs in the typical Oregon warehouse, fewer than the 81.5 found across the country (23 percent fewer).
• Food manufacturing employs 1.68 people for every warehousing job in Oregon; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Oregon holds 1.6% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.88% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 1,204 jobs, 0.34% of the US total.
• Refrigerated space works out at 8,299 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The metro below accounts for 49% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Multnomah County's 7,435 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 13 other states, the largest being New Mexico at 5,725.
• New York runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 66.5 jobs per establishment against 62.7 here.
• For food manufacturing, Massachusetts is the closest match at 29,036 jobs, 833 above Oregon's 28,203.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Oregon is Linn County with 1,681 jobs; the largest has 4.4 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Oregon holds 0.88%, which is 0.44 times an even share.
• Minnesota sits above Oregon with 1,171 more warehousing jobs, and Arkansas sits below with 1,126 fewer.

Where Oregon ranks

Oregon and the 31 states above it hold 95% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Oregon is 6,460 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 14 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Oregon

The line that stands out in Oregon is fruit and vegetable preserving, 4.1 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Fruit and vegetable preserving: 9,076 jobs in Oregon, 5.2% of the 173,844 across the US, or 0.54 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Beverage manufacturing: 7,137 jobs in Oregon, 2.3% of the 316,938 across the US, or 0.43 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 28,203 jobs in Oregon, 1.6% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.68 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Oregon

At 32nd of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Oregon has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Metros we list in Oregon

One metro in Oregon 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 Oregon

USDA counted 139 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Oregon on 1 October 2025, 9th 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 Oregon receiving ZIP

Other states

• Delaware
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Kansas
• Massachusetts
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• Washington

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