Used plastic pallets in Virginia

Where Virginia's pallet work sits

Warehousing and storage in Virginia employed 51,123 people at 529 sites in 2025, an average of 96.6 per site, by the BLS count of private employers.

• Suffolk County: 6,757 warehousing jobs, 13% of Virginia and 0.36% of the country, 1.8 times Chesapeake County.
• Chesapeake County: 3,851 warehousing jobs, 7.5% of Virginia and 0.20% of the country, 57% of the size of Suffolk County.
• Chesterfield County: 3,728 warehousing jobs, 7.3% of Virginia and 0.20% of the country, 55% of the size of Suffolk County.

Virginia against the country

Each line is Virginia's private-sector figure beside the national total, with the share it makes up and, where the data allows, its rank among the fifty states.

What the ratios say

The BLS withholds counties where a figure would identify one employer, which means the 3 counties shown for Virginia understate what the state holds.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 28% of Virginia's jobs in the line.
• Size of site: 96.6 jobs in the typical Virginia warehouse, more than the 81.5 found across the country (19 percent more).
• Food manufacturing employs 0.64 people for every warehousing job in Virginia; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• Virginia holds 1.8% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 2.7% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the lighter of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 2,939 jobs, 0.84% of the US total.
• Motor vehicle assembly accounts for 3,460 jobs in Virginia, 1.2% of the US total, with another 3,859 in parts.
• Refrigerated space works out at 1,408 cubic feet for every warehousing job, against 2,098 nationally.
• Suffolk County's 6,757 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 13 other states, the largest being New Mexico at 5,725.
• Ohio runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 96.2 jobs per establishment against 96.6 here.
• For food manufacturing, Alabama is the closest match at 33,728 jobs, 1,044 above Virginia's 32,684.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for Virginia is Chesterfield County with 3,728 jobs; the largest has 1.8 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; Virginia holds 2.69%, which is 1.34 times an even share.
• Arizona sits above Virginia with 931 more warehousing jobs, and Nevada sits below with 9,010 fewer.

Where Virginia ranks

Virginia and the 13 states above it hold 69% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so Virginia is 27,913 jobs above it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 5 times as many.

Industries that use pallets in Virginia

The line that stands out in Virginia is warehousing and storage, 1.1 times as concentrated as it is across the US. Warehouses with automated storage need a consistent size for conveyors and a rack rating they can read.

• Warehousing and storage: 51,123 jobs in Virginia, 2.7% of the 1,901,976 across the US, or 1.00 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Food manufacturing: 32,684 jobs in Virginia, 1.8% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 0.64 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around Virginia

At 14th of 50 states by warehousing jobs, Virginia has these neighbours in the ranking, two above and two below.

Virginia has no metro page

The sixty metros in the data do not include one in Virginia. This page therefore covers every county, and the written reply to a request says how a lot would be delivered.

Comparing two lots fairly

• Use the same footprint for both, measured in the same units.
• Compare grade by wear, not by the seller's letter.
• Count makers present in each, since fewer makers means a more uniform lot.
• Compare the share of repaired pieces, and where the repairs sit.
• Set freight, timing and handling beside the wear, rather than in place of it.

Questions to put to any seller

• Where did these pallets work, and what did they carry?
• How were they sorted, and who walked the lot?
• Are any welded, riveted or fitted with replacement parts?
• Can the maker's plate be photographed on several pallets?
• Will the description be sent in writing before payment is discussed?

Asking for a lot in Virginia

USDA counted 72 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse space in Virginia on 1 October 2025, 17th among the states; ask the maker how a pallet behaves frozen.

• Ask for used and clean with a stated rating in 48 x 40 in, one maker
• Write the Virginia ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Colorado
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Kansas
• Massachusetts
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Washington

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