Used plastic pallets in Dallas-Fort Worth

Dallas-Fort Worth by county

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington and you reach 82,593 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 2.3% of the metro's private work. The area covers 11 counties: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman....

Dallas-Fort Worth against Texas

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, 142 between them. 75050 (Grand Prairie) leads with 39, 27% of the listed total.

• 75050 Grand Prairie: 39 warehousing establishments, 1.1 times 76177.
• 76177 Fort Worth: 36 warehousing establishments, 92% of the count in 75050.
• 75006 Carrollton: 27 warehousing establishments, 69% of the count in 75050.
• 75261 Dallas: 20 warehousing establishments, 51% of the count in 75050.
• 75134 Lancaster: 20 warehousing establishments, 51% of the count in 75050.

What the ratios say

The BLS leaves out counties where one employer would show through, so the 82,593 jobs counted for Dallas-Fort Worth may understate the metro.

• Dallas-Fort Worth ranks 2nd of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 82,593 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 11 counties, that is 7,508 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Dallas County holds 54% of the metro's jobs and Tarrant County 24%; the gap between them is 25,195 jobs.
• 75050 has 39 warehousing establishments, 1.9 times as many as 75134 (20) at the other end of the list.
• Texas has 175,579 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Dallas-Fort Worth are 47% of the state.
• Warehousing is 2.3% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• One Interstate in the data serves the metro, and it carries 147,019 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Inland Empire (118,368, 35,775 above) and Chicago (59,586, 23,007 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 75050, 76177, 75006, hold 102 of the 142 establishments in the ZIP list, or 72%.
• The ZIP list spans 5 towns, led by Grand Prairie (39) and Fort Worth (36).
• The ZIP list averages 28.4 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 75134 Lancaster, has 20.
• Of the 11 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 3 for warehousing, which together account for 72,635 of the 82,593 jobs counted.
• Dallas-Fort Worth has 6.0 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 42 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 11 counties.

Where Dallas-Fort Worth ranks

Dallas-Fort Worth and the 1 metros above it hold 18% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Corridors through Dallas-Fort Worth

Interstate 35 is the Interstate in our data that serves Dallas-Fort Worth.

Neighbouring metros in the data

Metros that share a corridor with Dallas-Fort Worth, and the other metros in Texas, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Dallas-Fort Worth

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Dallas-Fort Worth with the two above it and the two below.

Dallas-Fort Worth's pallet-using trades

Against the national share of employment, warehousing and storage is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, at 1.6x. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 82,593 jobs in the disclosed counties, 4.3% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 25,839 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.5% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.31 for every warehousing job here.

Training the dock crew

• Show new staff three pallets: one acceptable, one marginal, one rejected.
• Agree on words for faults, such as crack, gouge, bow and dish, and use them.
• Tell people to stop and ask when a pallet carries any mark they do not recognise.
• Remind drivers to enter pockets squarely, since angled entry splits the pocket wall.
• Walk the dock together once a month and compare notes.

Requesting a lot for Dallas-Fort Worth

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Grade: used and clean with a stated rating
• Dock ZIP, for example 75050 or 76177
• Quantity band

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