Used plastic pallets in West Virginia

West Virginia in numbers

A pallet moves wherever a warehouse does, and West Virginia has 100 of them by the BLS establishment count, with 3,631 jobs between them and 36.3 per site on average.

• Wood County: 684 warehousing jobs, 19% of West Virginia and 0.04% of the country, 3.6 times Putnam County.
• Putnam County: 190 warehousing jobs, 5.2% of West Virginia and 0.01% of the country, 28% of the size of Wood County.
• Harrison County: 169 warehousing jobs, 4.7% of West Virginia and 0.01% of the country, 25% of the size of Wood County.

West Virginia against the country

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

What the ratios say

Small counties in West Virginia are hidden by BLS disclosure rules, so read the 3,631 state figure as the total and the county lines as a floor.

• The three largest warehousing counties hold 29% of West Virginia's jobs in the line.
• At 36.3 jobs per establishment against 81.5 across the US, West Virginia's warehouses run smaller than the national average by 55 percent.
• Food manufacturing employs 1.00 people for every warehousing job in West Virginia; across the US the ratio is 0.93.
• West Virginia holds 0.20% of the nation's food manufacturing jobs and 0.19% of its warehousing jobs, so food is the heavier of the two lines here.
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing adds 823 jobs, 0.23% of the US total.
• Wood County's 684 warehousing jobs are more than the whole state total of 2 other states, the largest being Alaska at 587.
• New Hampshire runs warehouses of nearly the same size, at 34.2 jobs per establishment against 36.3 here.
• For food manufacturing, Rhode Island is the closest match at 3,769 jobs, 133 above West Virginia's 3,636.
• The smallest county the BLS shows for West Virginia is Harrison County with 169 jobs; the largest has 4.0 times as many.
• If warehousing jobs were split evenly across 50 states, each would hold 2.0% of the total; West Virginia holds 0.19%, which is 0.10 times an even share.
• Maine sits above West Virginia with 143 more warehousing jobs, and New Hampshire sits below with 348 fewer.

Where West Virginia ranks

West Virginia and the 40 states above it hold 99% of the country's 1,901,976 warehousing jobs between them. The median state has 23,211, so West Virginia is 19,579 jobs below it; California, the largest, has 236,923, or 65 times as many.

Who buys pallets in West Virginia

Measured against the national share of employment, chemical manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in West Virginia, at 2.0 times the national figure. Drums and bags drive the footprint here: four 55-gallon drums sit on a 48 x 48 without overhang, and 45 x 45 is the CP9 chemical standard.

• Chemical manufacturing: 7,595 jobs in West Virginia, 0.85% of the 892,426 across the US, or 2.09 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: 3,925 jobs in West Virginia, 0.75% of the 521,212 across the US, or 1.08 for every warehousing job in the state.
• Plastics product manufacturing: 4,044 jobs in West Virginia, 0.70% of the 575,006 across the US, or 1.11 for every warehousing job in the state.

The ladder around West Virginia

Sorting all 50 states by warehousing jobs puts West Virginia 41st. The rows around it show how close the next states are.

West Virginia has no metro page

None of the sixty logistics metros sits in West Virginia, so this page serves the whole state. The reply to a request from West Virginia says how a lot would reach you.

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.

Safe handling at the stack

• Lift with the tines fully under the load and tilt back slightly before travelling.
• Never climb a stack, and never stand beside one while it is being moved.
• Take a damaged pallet out of service at once and tag it, so nobody reloads it.
• Keep stack heights even and edges square, since a leaning stack feeds on itself.
• Match tine length to the pallet, because short tines can crack the underside of a deck.

Asking for a lot in West Virginia

USDA published no refrigerated warehouse figure for West Virginia in its October 2025 count, so this page makes no cold-storage claim.

• Ask for used and clean in 48 x 48 in or 45 x 45 in
• Write the West Virginia ZIP where the lot will land
• Say how many pallet-loads, or whether you need a truck

Other states

• Arkansas
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Iowa
• Maine
• Michigan
• Missouri
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont

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