Used plastic pallets in Green Bay

Where the warehouses are in Green Bay

Count the jobs the BLS can disclose in Green Bay and you reach 584 in warehousing and storage for 2025, 0.4% of the metro's private work. The area covers 3 counties: Brown, Kewaunee, Oconto.

Green Bay against Wisconsin

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

Green Bay ZIPs to name on a request

Census ZIP Code Business Patterns for 2023 list 5 ZIPs here with the most warehousing establishments, 22 between them. 54304 (Green Bay) leads with 9, 41% of the listed total.

• 54304 Green Bay: 9 warehousing establishments, 2.3 times 54311.
• 54311 Green Bay: 4 warehousing establishments, 44% of the count in 54304.
• 54313 Green Bay: 3 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 54304.
• 54154 Oconto Falls: 3 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 54304.
• 54115 De Pere: 3 warehousing establishments, 33% of the count in 54304.

What the ratios say

County totals for Green Bay are floors, since the BLS hides counties with too few employers to publish; the 584 jobs are the disclosed part.

• Green Bay ranks 59th of the 60 metros in the data by disclosed warehousing jobs, with 584 against a median of 13,652.
• Spread across 3 counties, that is 195 warehousing jobs per county on average.
• 54304 has 9 warehousing establishments, 3.0 times as many as 54115 (3) at the other end of the list.
• Wisconsin has 33,054 warehousing jobs in all, so the disclosed counties of Green Bay are 1.8% of the state.
• Warehousing is 0.4% of private jobs in these counties; where it is higher than average, pallets are a daily cost and sellers of surplus are common.
• The metros closest in size are Gainesville, GA (656, 72 above) and Salinas (298, 286 below).
• The top three ZIPs, 54304, 54311, 54313, hold 16 of the 22 establishments in the ZIP list, or 73%.
• The ZIP list spans 3 towns, led by Green Bay (16) and Oconto Falls (3).
• The ZIP list averages 4.4 warehousing establishments per ZIP across 5 ZIPs, and the quietest, 54115 De Pere, has 3.
• Of the 3 counties in the metro, the BLS discloses 1 for warehousing, which together account for 584 of the 584 jobs counted.
• Reaching the median metro would take 23.4 times the disclosed warehousing jobs Green Bay has now.
• For every warehousing job in these counties there are about 249 other private jobs, so pallet-using work is spread thinly across 3 counties.

Where Green Bay ranks

Green Bay is one of the 2 smallest of the 60 metros by disclosed warehousing jobs. The largest, Inland Empire, counts 118,368, which is 203 times as many.

Highways around Green Bay

No Interstate corridor in our data lists Green Bay, so the county and ZIP figures carry this page.

The ladder around Green Bay

Metros ranked by disclosed warehousing jobs: Green Bay with the two above it and the two below.

Who buys pallets around Green Bay

Against the national share of employment, dairy product manufacturing is the most concentrated pallet-using line in Green Bay, at 9.5x. Dairy runs cold and wet, so ask about cold-room use and drainage in the deck.

• Dairy product manufacturing: 1,867 jobs in the disclosed counties, 1.1% of the 168,222 across the US, or 3.20 for every warehousing job here.
• Meat and poultry processing: 4,104 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.7% of the 556,647 across the US, or 7.03 for every warehousing job here.
• Food manufacturing: 9,132 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.5% of the 1,775,008 across the US, or 15.64 for every warehousing job here.
• Grocery and related product wholesale: 1,484 jobs in the disclosed counties, 0.2% of the 829,364 across the US, or 2.54 for every warehousing job here.

When something looks wrong

• Stop unloading and photograph the fault before anything moves.
• Count how many pallets show the same fault, to see if it is a lot problem or a one-off.
• Tell the desk or the seller in writing the same day, with the photographs attached.
• Hold the affected stacks apart until you hear back.
• Keep one sample pallet unused, so the maker or an inspector can examine it.

Storing a lot properly

• Keep stacks on a flat, dry slab, away from heaters, doorways and loading-bay draughts.
• Limit stack height to what the bottom pallet and the lift truck can safely manage.
• Shield pallets from sunlight with a tarp or a roof, since ultraviolet light chalks and embrittles some resins.
• Separate footprints, makers and grades with floor markings so pickers never guess.
• Leave an aisle wide enough for a fork truck to turn without clipping a corner.

Requesting a lot for Green Bay

• Footprint: 48 x 40 in or 56 x 44 in
• Grade: like new
• Dock ZIP, for example 54304 or 54311
• Quantity band

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