Used plastic pallets in Texas

Texas in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and Texas has 2,174 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 175,579 jobs between them and 80.8 per site on average.

• Dallas County: 44,657 warehousing jobs, 25% of Texas and 2.3% of the country, 1.9 times Harris County.
• Harris County: 23,802 warehousing jobs, 14% of Texas and 1.3% of the country, 53% of the size of Dallas County.
• Tarrant County: 19,462 warehousing jobs, 11% of Texas and 1.0% of the country, 44% of the size of Dallas County.

Texas against the country

Read across: what Texas has, what the whole country has, the slice Texas takes, and where that puts it in the state ranking when a rank exists.

What the ratios say

Small counties in Texas are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 175,579 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 50% of Texas's jobs in the line.
• At 80.8 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, Texas's warehouses run smaller than the national average by 1 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 0.64 people for every warehousing job in Texas; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Texas holds 6.3% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 9.2% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 15,366 jobs, 4.4% of the US total, enough to make sanitisable pallets a real part of local demand.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 28,069 jobs in Texas, 9.7% of the US total, with another 23,517 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 1,447 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• The 5 metros below account for 80% of the state's warehousing jobs, counting disclosed counties only.
• Dallas County's 44,657 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 36 other states, the largest being Nevada at 42,113.
• Colorado runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 80.7 jobs per establishment against 80.8 here.
• For food manufacturing, Illinois is the closest match at 98,300 jobs, 13,788 below Texas's 112,088.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Texas is Tarrant County with 19,462 jobs; the largest has 2.3 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Texas holds 9.23%, which is 4.62 times an even share.
• California sits above Texas with 61,344 more warehousing jobs, and Pennsylvania sits below with 52,098 fewer.

Where Texas ranks

Texas and the 1 states above it hold 22% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Texas is 152,369 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 1 times as many.

Who buys pallets in Texas

Measured against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Texas, at 1.0 times the national figure. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 175,579 jobs in Texas, 9.2% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 112,088 jobs in Texas, 6.3% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.64 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Texas

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts Texas 2nd. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

Metros we list in Texas

5 metros in Texas have a page with ZIPs, counties and corridors.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Asking for a lot in Texas

USDA counted 254 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Texas on 1 October 2025, 6th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Quantity: a band, from a few pallet-loads to a truck
• ZIP: the Texas receiving ZIP

Other states

• California
• Colorado
• Indiana
• Montana
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• North Dakota
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Wyoming

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