Used plastic pallets in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's warehousing belt

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and you reach 18,912 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 8.4% of the metro's private work. The area covers 3 counties: Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming.

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre against Pennsylvania

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

Where a Scranton-Wilkes-Barre lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 56 between them. 18640 (Pittston) leads with 28, 50% of the listed total.

• 18640 Pittston: 28 warehousing establishments, 1.8 times 18202.
• 18202 Hazleton: 16 warehousing establishments, 57% of the count in 18640.
• 18706 Wilkes Barre: 4 warehousing establishments, 14% of the count in 18640.
• 18504 Scranton: 4 warehousing establishments, 14% of the count in 18640.
• 18424 Gouldsboro: 4 warehousing establishments, 14% of the count in 18640.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's figure of 18,912 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Scranton-Wilkes-Barre ranks 22nd of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 18,912 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 3 counties, that is 6,304 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Luzerne County holds 72% of the metro's jobs and Lackawanna County 28%; the gap between them is 8,292 jobs.
• 18640 has 28 warehousing establishments, 7.0 times as many as 18424 (4) at the other end of the list.
• Pennsylvania has 123,481 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Scranton-Wilkes-Barre are 15% of the state.
• Warehousing is 8.4% 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 195,526 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Lehigh Valley (19,122, 210 above) and Charlotte (18,437, 475 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 18640, 18202, 18706, hold 48 of the 56 establishments in the ZIP list, or 86%.
• The ZIP list spans 5 towns, led by Pittston (28) and Hazleton (16).
• The ZIP list averages 11.2 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 18424 Gouldsboro, has 4.
• Of the 3 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 18,912 of the 18,912 jobs counted.
• Scranton-Wilkes-Barre has 1.4 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 11 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 3 counties.

Where Scranton-Wilkes-Barre ranks

Scranton-Wilkes-Barre and the 21 metros above it hold 74% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

The roads a lot travels in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

Interstate 81 and Interstate 80 are the Interstates in our data that serve Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.

Neighbouring metros in the data

Metros that share a corridor with Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and the other metros in Pennsylvania, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Scranton-Wilkes-Barre with the two above it and the two below.

Local industries that use pallets

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, at 5.9x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 18,912 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.0% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Beverage manufacturing: 1,378 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 316,938 across the US, or 0.07 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 4,798 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.25 for every warehousing job here.

Wear you can measure

• Deck bow: lay the straight edge across and slide a feeler between it and the deck.
• Runner flattening: compare the thickness of a worn runner with an unworn one.
• Corner loss: hold a square against the corner and note any missing plastic.
• Pocket height: measure the opening at both ends of each fork pocket.
• Weight: weigh three pallets on a platform scale and note the spread.

Requesting a lot for Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 18640 or 18202
• Quantity band

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