Used plastic pallets in San Antonio

Where the warehouses are in San Antonio

San Antonio-New Braunfels spans 8 counties (Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall...). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 16,751 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 1.8% of local private jobs.

San Antonio against Texas

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

San Antonio ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 63 between them. 78218 (San Antonio) leads with 29, 46% of the listed total.

• 78218 San Antonio: 29 warehousing establishments, 1.8 times 78219.
• 78219 San Antonio: 16 warehousing establishments, 55% of the count in 78218.
• 78154 Schertz: 7 warehousing establishments, 24% of the count in 78218.
• 78207 San Antonio: 6 warehousing establishments, 21% of the count in 78218.
• 78226 San Antonio: 5 warehousing establishments, 17% of the count in 78218.

What the ratios say

County totals for San Antonio-New Braunfels are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 16,751 jobs are the disclosed part.

• San Antonio ranks 26th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 16,751 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 8 counties, that is 2,094 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• Bexar County holds 86% of the metro's jobs and Comal County 14%; the gap between them is 12,223 jobs.
• 78218 has 29 warehousing establishments, 5.8 times as many as 78226 (5) at the other end of the list.
• Texas has 175,579 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of San Antonio are 9.5% of the state.
• Warehousing is 1.8% 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 402,962 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are St. Louis (16,879, 128 above) and Denver (15,858, 893 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 78218, 78219, 78154, hold 52 of the 63 establishments in the ZIP list, or 83%.
• The ZIP list spans 2 towns, led by San Antonio (56) and Schertz (7).
• The ZIP list averages 12.6 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 78226 San Antonio, has 5.
• Of the 8 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 2 for warehousing, which together account for 16,751 of the 16,751 jobs counted.
• San Antonio has 1.2 times the disclosed warehousing jobs of the median metro.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 55 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 8 counties.

Where San Antonio ranks

San Antonio and the 25 metros above it hold 80% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around San Antonio

Interstate 35 and Interstate 10 are the Interstates in our data that serve San Antonio.

Other metros nearby

Metros that share a corridor with San Antonio, and the other metros in Texas, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around San Antonio

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

Who buys pallets around San Antonio

Against the national share of employment, motor vehicle manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in San Antonio-New Braunfels, at 3.0x. Automotive plants reuse pallets in a loop and load them heavily, so ask for static and dynamic ratings and for one maker.

• Motor vehicle manufacturing: 6,165 jobs in the disclosed counties, 2.1% of the 288,633 across the US, or 0.37 for every warehousing job here.
• Warehousing and storage: 16,751 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.9% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

Labelling stacks

• Put a card on each stack with footprint, grade and the date it was sorted.
• Use one colour of tape for repaired pallets and another for held ones.
• Keep labels at fork-truck eye level, not on the lowest pallet.
• Update the card when a pallet is removed, so the count stays true.
• Retire old cards instead of writing over them.

What to send for a San Antonio lot

• Footprint: 48 x 45 in to match heavy-duty bulk containers
• Grade: a uniform closed-loop lot
• Dock ZIP, for example 78218 or 78219
• Quantity band

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