Used plastic pallets in Charleston, SC

Charleston, SC's warehousing belt

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Charleston-North Charleston and you reach 3,242 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 1.0% of the metro's private work. The area covers 3 counties: Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester.

Charleston, SC against South Carolina

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

Where a Charleston, SC lot lands: the busy ZIPs

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 58 between them. 29456 (Ladson) leads with 16, 28% of the listed total.

• 29456 Ladson: 16 warehousing establishments, 1.2 times 29483.
• 29483 Summerville: 13 warehousing establishments, 81% of the count in 29456.
• 29405 North Charleston: 11 warehousing establishments, 69% of the count in 29456.
• 29492 Charleston: 9 warehousing establishments, 56% of the count in 29456.
• 29418 North Charleston: 9 warehousing establishments, 56% of the count in 29456.

What the ratios say

Hidden counties mean Charleston, SC's figure of 3,242 is the disclosed part of its warehousing work, not a ceiling.

• Charleston, SC ranks 49th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 3,242 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 3 counties, that is 1,081 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Dorchester County holds 41% of the metro's jobs and Berkeley County 34%; the gap between them is 212 jobs.
• 29456 has 16 warehousing establishments, 1.8 times as many as 29418 (9) at the other end of the list.
• South Carolina has 27,150 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Charleston, SC are 12% 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 Des Moines (4,393, 1,151 above) and Grand Rapids (3,125, 117 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 29456, 29483, 29405, hold 40 of the 58 establishments in the ZIP list, or 69%.
• The ZIP list spans 4 towns, led by North Charleston (20) and Ladson (16).
• The ZIP list averages 11.6 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 29418 North Charleston, has 9.
• Of the 3 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 3,242 of the 3,242 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 4.2 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Charleston, SC has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 99 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 3 counties.

Where Charleston, SC ranks

Charleston, SC is one of the 12 smallest of the 60 metros by disclosed warehousing jobs. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368, which is 37 times as many.

The roads a lot travels in Charleston, SC

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

The ladder around Charleston, SC

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Charleston, SC 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 Charleston-North Charleston, at 0.7x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 3,242 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.2% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Chemical manufacturing: 2,486 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 892,426 across the US, or 0.77 for every warehousing job here.

Comparing two lots fairly

• Use the same footprint for both, measured in the same units.
• Compare grade by wear, not by the seller's letter.
• Count makers present in each, since fewer makers means a more uniform lot.
• Compare the share of repaired pieces, and where the repairs sit.
• Set freight, timing and handling beside the wear, rather than in place of it.

Yard storage and weather

• Rain does little harm to plastic, but standing water in the ribs adds weight and breeds odours.
• Freezing weather makes some resins brittle, so avoid dropping or hard-forking cold pallets.
• Hot sun softens decks under load, which is how a stack ends up bowed.
• Wind can topple tall unstrapped stacks, so strap them or keep them short.
• Mud and grit on runners wear floors and conveyors, so brush them off before indoor use.

Requesting a lot for Charleston, SC

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 29456 or 29483
• Quantity band

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