Sell plastic pallets in Arkansas
Arkansas had 15,624 warehousing jobs in 2025, 33rd among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is meat and poultry processing. Send the lot with its ZIP; the desk reads size, style, grade and marks, and rules it sold, returned or scrapped.
Last reviewed November 12, 2026
Arkansas in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 15,624 (33rd of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 218 (33rd of 50); about 72 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.82%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 51,799 (11th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- meat and poultry processing, 7.5x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 464
- Auto parts jobs
- 3,586
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 93 million cubic feet (14th of 50)
Reading an Arkansas lot
Arkansas ranks 33rd for warehousing jobs and 33rd for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 72 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Smaller sites mean smaller stacks, so the count matters more than the size of the site.
Arkansas has 3.3 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Food plants carry more weight here than the warehouses beside them, so expect hygienic decks and rotated stock. Among the other industries counted here, auto parts (3,586 jobs) is 7.7 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (464).
Pulaski County holds 47.9% of Arkansas's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 68.2%. Three counties carry most of the market, and a lot near any of them is close to the most dock activity. The dossier follows one metro in Arkansas: Northwest Arkansas.
USDA counted 93 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Arkansas, 14th of 50 and about 5,952 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a bigger part of the picture here, so expect cold-chain lots: decks that tolerate cold and moisture, and questions about washdown.
Where Arkansas's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Pulaski | 7,477 | 47.9% |
| Benton | 2,670 | 17.1% |
| Crittenden | 505 | 3.2% |
What Arkansas's industries put on the dock
- Meat and poultry processing: 34,773 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 51,799 jobs, 2025
- Refrigerated warehousing: 1,941 jobs, 2025
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: 4,153 jobs, 2025
- Plastics product manufacturing: 6,804 jobs, 2025
Arkansas's most concentrated industry is meat and poultry processing, at 7.5 times the national share of employment. See how lots from meat and poultry plants read.
The metro that matters in Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas. Northwest Arkansas (Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers): 3 counties (Benton, Madison, Washington). 3,065 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.16% of the US total; 1.2% of local private jobs). Largest warehousing counties: Benton (2,670), Washington (395). Most concentrated: meat and poultry processing at 8.3x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 72764 Springdale (7), 72756 Rogers (7), 72712 Bentonville (7), 72761 Siloam Springs (5), 72745 Lowell (5).
Where Arkansas sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Arkansas | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 33rd: 15,624 | Oregon, 16,750 (+1,126) | Louisiana, 15,312 (-312) |
| Warehousing establishments | 33rd: 218 | Maryland, 245 (+27) | Connecticut, 193 (-25) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 11th: 51,799 | Iowa, 60,161 (+8,362) | Minnesota, 47,829 (-3,970) |
States next to Arkansas
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 26,726 | St. Charles (5,782) | 45,268 | motor vehicle manufacturing |
| Tennessee | 53,427 | Shelby (11,727) | 40,320 | motor vehicle parts manufacturing |
| Mississippi | 25,454 | DeSoto (11,634) | 24,727 | meat and poultry processing |
| Louisiana | 15,312 | East Baton Rouge (3,948) | 16,970 | chemical manufacturing |
| Texas | 175,579 | Dallas (44,657) | 112,088 | warehousing and storage |
| Oklahoma | 19,669 | Oklahoma (8,307) | 20,047 | meat and poultry processing |
Arkansas has fewer warehousing jobs than 5 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Texas, has 11 times Arkansas's 15,624. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on Arkansas from the sources
- Private employers in the US averaged 556,647 jobs across 4,689 establishments in meat and poultry processing (NAICS 3116) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (44,780), Georgia (42,030), North Carolina (35,715), Arkansas (34,773), Iowa (33,386). (data.bls.gov)
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
- States where meat and poultry processing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (3.7%), Arkansas (3.1%), Iowa (2.6%), Delaware (2.4%), Mississippi (2.0%); the national share is 0.42%. (data.bls.gov)
Other pallet-using industries counted in Arkansas
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 464 | 0.0 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 3,586 | 0.2 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Arkansas
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean line-change stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Arkansas have?
15,624 private-sector jobs across 218 establishments in 2025, 0.82% of the US total, which ranks Arkansas 33rd of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Arkansas?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Arkansas. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Arkansas industry is most concentrated?
Meat and poultry processing, at 7.5 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Plants changing packaging or pallet size
- Retire a whole stock of one footprint at once; want it sold or ground up, not landfilled.
- Plastic recyclers and pallet makers
- Buy broken pallets by weight as HDPE or PP feedstock; want clean, sorted, separated by resin and colour.
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare shippers
- Hygienic pallets that can be sanitised; documents on resin and colour; PP sometimes preferred for sterilisation.
What the sources say
- Private employers in the US averaged 556,647 jobs across 4,689 establishments in meat and poultry processing (NAICS 3116) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (44,780), Georgia (42,030), North Carolina (35,715), Arkansas (34,773), Iowa (33,386). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 173,844 jobs across 2,936 establishments in fruit and vegetable preserving (NAICS 3114) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (27,518), Wisconsin (11,014), Washington (10,988), Ohio (10,327), Texas (9,194). (data.bls.gov)
- States where meat and poultry processing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (3.7%), Arkansas (3.1%), Iowa (2.6%), Delaware (2.4%), Mississippi (2.0%); the national share is 0.42%. (data.bls.gov)
- USDA NASS counted 3.99 billion cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity in the US on October 1, 2025, with usable capacity of 3.25 billion cubic feet (82 percent of gross). (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- The five states with the largest gross refrigerated warehouse capacity on October 1, 2025 were California (400 million cubic feet), Georgia (304 million), Washington (301 million), Wisconsin (297 million) and Texas (254 million), per USDA NASS. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- Georgia Ports Authority moved 5.7 million TEUs in fiscal year 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), up 8.6 percent or 450,000 TEUs, the Port of Savannah's second-busiest year after 5.76 million in FY2022. (container-news.com)
- Counties with the most private meat and poultry processing jobs (NAICS 3116) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Hall County, Georgia (11,123), Cook County, Illinois (8,367), Sussex County, Delaware (8,212), Marshall County, Alabama (7,387), Fresno County, California (6,499), Douglas County, Nebraska (6,452). (data.bls.gov)
- Private warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) paid an average of $56,706 a year across 1,901,976 jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW). (data.bls.gov)
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
- Only pallets designed for unsupported racking carry a racking rating. (nelsoncompany.com)
- PHS lists 48 x 40 stackable plastic pallets with dynamic ratings of 2,500 to 5,000 lb and static ratings of 3,000 to 30,000 lb. (phsinc.com)
- Plastic pallets weigh about 3 to 15 lb when light and up to 300 lb when heavy; a typical GMA wood pallet weighs about 37 lb. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Plastic pallets can deform (creep) under heavy long-term loads and are hard to repair. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Plastic pallets are made by injection molding, structural foam molding, thermoforming, compression molding, rotational molding and profile extrusion. (en.wikipedia.org)
- About 500 million pallets are made each year as of 2020, with about 2 billion in use in the US. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Metal pallets are under 1 percent of the pallet market. (en.wikipedia.org)
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