Used plastic pallets in Salt Lake City

Where the warehouses are in Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City-Murray spans 2 counties (Salt Lake, Tooele). In the counties where the Bureau of Labor Statistics can publish, private employers had 6,623 warehousing and storage jobs in 2025, 0.9% of local private jobs.

Salt Lake City against Utah

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

Salt Lake City ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 91 between them. 84104 (Salt Lake City) leads with 54, 59% of the listed total.

• 84104 Salt Lake City: 54 warehousing establishments, 4.2 times 84119.
• 84119 West Valley City: 13 warehousing establishments, 24% of the count in 84104.
• 84116 Salt Lake City: 12 warehousing establishments, 22% of the count in 84104.
• 84120 West Valley City: 6 warehousing establishments, 11% of the count in 84104.
• 84081 West Jordan: 6 warehousing establishments, 11% of the count in 84104.

What the ratios say

County totals for Salt Lake City-Murray are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 6,623 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Salt Lake City ranks 40th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 6,623 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 2 counties, that is 3,312 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 84104 has 54 warehousing establishments, 9.0 times as many as 84081 (6) at the other end of the list.
• Utah has 13,683 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Salt Lake City are 48% of the state.
• Warehousing is 0.9% 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 155,780 warehousing jobs along the route.
• The metros closest in size are Lancaster (6,994, 371 above) and Minneapolis-St. Paul (6,599, 24 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 84104, 84119, 84116, hold 79 of the 91 establishments in the ZIP list, or 87%.
• The ZIP list spans 3 towns, led by Salt Lake City (66) and West Valley City (19).
• The ZIP list averages 18.2 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 84081 West Jordan, has 6.
• Of the 2 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 1 for warehousing, which together account for 6,623 of the 6,623 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 2.1 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Salt Lake City has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 110 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 2 counties.

Where Salt Lake City ranks

Salt Lake City and the 39 metros above it hold 94% of the 1,116,650 warehousing jobs across the 60 metros in the data. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368.

Highways around Salt Lake City

Interstate 80 is the Interstate in our data that serves Salt Lake City.

Other metros nearby

Metros that share a corridor with Salt Lake City, and the other metros in Utah, with their disclosed warehousing jobs.

The ladder around Salt Lake City

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Salt Lake City with the two above it and the two below.

Who buys pallets around Salt Lake City

Against the national share of employment, food manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Salt Lake City-Murray, at 0.8x. Food plants ask for clean, odour-free, washable decks. Food-contact papers come from the maker, not from the grade.

• Food manufacturing: 7,325 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.4% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 1.11 for every warehousing job here.
• Warehousing and storage: 6,623 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.3% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job here.

Planning around the seasons

• Cold months bring brittle resin, so handle gently and avoid sharp drops.
• Warm months soften decks, so shorten stacks and keep loads in shade.
• Harvest, holiday and promotion peaks use pallets faster, so order earlier.
• Wet seasons add weight in the ribs, so allow a drying day before indoor use.
• Plan returns and exports for the weeks when dock space is free.

What to send for a Salt Lake City lot

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Grade: like new or used and clean
• Dock ZIP, for example 84104 or 84119
• Quantity band

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