Used plastic pallets in Nashville

Nashville by county

Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin spans 14 counties (Cannon, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Hickman, Macon...). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 19,548 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 2.0% of local private jobs.

Nashville against Tennessee

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

ZIPs with the most warehouses

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 94 between them. 37086 (La Vergne) leads with 30, 32% of the listed total.

• 37086 La Vergne: 30 warehousing establishments, 1.3 times 37090.
• 37090 Lebanon: 23 warehousing establishments, 77% of the count in 37086.
• 37122 Mount Juliet: 21 warehousing establishments, 70% of the count in 37086.
• 37210 Nashville: 10 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 37086.
• 37148 Portland: 10 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 37086.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 19,548 jobs counted for Nashville may understate the metro.

• Nashville ranks 20th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 19,548 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 14 counties, that is 1,396 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Wilson County holds 49% of the metro's jobs and Rutherford County 30%; the gap between them is 3,863 jobs.
• 37086 has 30 warehousing establishments, 3.0 times as many as 37148 (10) at the other end of the list.
• Tennessee has 53,427 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Nashville are 37% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.0% 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 192,111 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Cincinnati (19,940, 392 above) and Lehigh Valley (19,122, 426 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 37086, 37090, 37122, hold 74 of the 94 establishments in the ZIP list, or 79%.
• The ZIP list spans 5 towns, led by La Vergne (30) and Lebanon (23).
• The ZIP list averages 18.8 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 37148 Portland, has 10.
• Of the 14 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 17,800 of the 19,548 jobs counted.
• Nashville has 1.4 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 49 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 14 counties.

Where Nashville ranks

Nashville and the 19 metros above it hold 70% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Nashville

Interstate 65 and Interstate 40 are the Interstates in our data that serve Nashville.

Other metros nearby

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

The ladder around Nashville

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

Nashville's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, at 1.5x. Automotive plants reuse pallets in a loop and load them heavily, so ask for static and dynamic ratings and for one maker.

• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: 5,885 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.1% of the 521,212 across the US, or 0.30 for every warehousing job here.
• Warehousing and storage: 19,548 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.0% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

Paperwork to keep

• The written lot description and the date it was sent.
• Your own count, signed and dated by whoever received the load.
• Photographs of stacks, plates and any marks, stored with the order number.
• The maker's papers for resin, colour or rating, where the job needs them.
• A line naming who agreed to which exceptions, so a later dispute has a record.

What to send for a Nashville lot

• Footprint: 48 x 45 in to match heavy-duty bulk containers
• Grade: a uniform closed-loop lot
• Dock ZIP, for example 37086 or 37090
• Quantity band

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