Used plastic pallets in Pittsburgh

Where the warehouses are in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh spans 8 counties (Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Lawrence...). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 9,826 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 1.0% of local private jobs.

Pittsburgh against Pennsylvania

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

Pittsburgh ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 30 between them. 16066 (Cranberry Township) leads with 10, 33% of the listed total.

• 16066 Cranberry Township: 10 warehousing establishments, 2.0 times 15233.
• 15233 Pittsburgh: 5 warehousing establishments, 50% of the count in 16066.
• 15205 Pittsburgh: 5 warehousing establishments, 50% of the count in 16066.
• 15126 Imperial: 5 warehousing establishments, 50% of the count in 16066.
• 15108 Coraopolis: 5 warehousing establishments, 50% of the count in 16066.

What the ratios say

County totals for Pittsburgh are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 9,826 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Pittsburgh ranks 34th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 9,826 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 8 counties, that is 1,228 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Allegheny County holds 56% of the metro's jobs and Westmoreland County 30%; the gap between them is 2,609 jobs.
• 16066 has 10 warehousing establishments, 2.0 times as many as 15108 (5) at the other end of the list.
• Pennsylvania has 123,481 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Pittsburgh are 8.0% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.0% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• The metros closest in size are Reno (12,269, 2,443 above) and San Francisco-Oakland (9,473, 353 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 16066, 15233, 15205, hold 20 of the 30 establishments in the ZIP list, or 67%.
• The ZIP list spans 4 towns, led by Cranberry Township (10) and Pittsburgh (10).
• The ZIP list averages 6.0 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 15108 Coraopolis, has 5.
• Of the 8 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 9,114 of the 9,826 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 1.4 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Pittsburgh has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 99 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 8 counties.

Where Pittsburgh ranks

Pittsburgh and the 33 metros above it hold 90% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around Pittsburgh

No Interstate corridor in our data lists Pittsburgh, so the county and ZIP figures carry this page.

The ladder around Pittsburgh

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

Who buys pallets around Pittsburgh

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Pittsburgh, at 0.7x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 9,826 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.5% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 6,239 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.63 for every warehousing job here.

Planning around the seasons

• Cold months bring brittle resin, so handle gently and avoid sharp drops.
• Warm months soften decks, so shorten stacks and keep loads in shade.
• Harvest, holiday and promotion peaks use pallets faster, so order earlier.
• Wet seasons add weight in the ribs, so allow a drying day before indoor use.
• Plan returns and exports for the weeks when dock space is free.

A kit for the walk-around

• A steel tape that reads both inches and millimetres.
• A torch for the underside, where hairline cracks hide in shadow.
• A straight edge about a metre long to test decks for bow and dishing.
• Gloves, because burrs and weld beads cut skin.
• A phone, a pen and a numbered sheet so every pallet checked gets a mark.

What to send for a Pittsburgh lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 16066 or 15233
• Quantity band

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