Sell plastic pallets in Colorado
Colorado had 24,541 warehousing jobs in 2025, 25th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is food manufacturing. 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
Colorado in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 24,541 (25th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 304 (27th of 50); about 81 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.29%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 26,569 (27th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- food manufacturing, 0.8x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 4,960
- Auto parts jobs
- 1,123
Reading a Colorado lot
304 establishments employ 24,541 people in Colorado, about 81 each against 82 for the fifty states. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. Small sites tend to mean a few stacks at a time.
Colorado has 1.1 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Plants outweigh the warehouses that serve them, which favours clean decks and stocks rotated on a schedule. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (4,960 jobs) is 4.4 times the size of auto parts (1,123).
Adams County holds 49.6% of Colorado's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 63.4%. 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 Colorado: Denver-Aurora-Centennial.
The October 2025 USDA table used here gives no separate figure for Colorado, so cold-chain lots are read on their photos and what they carried.
Where Colorado's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Adams | 12,162 | 49.6% |
| Denver | 2,456 | 10.0% |
| Arapahoe | 944 | 3.8% |
What Colorado's industries put on the dock
- Food manufacturing: 26,569 jobs, 2025
- Warehousing and storage: 24,541 jobs, 2025
Of the industries counted, food manufacturing sits furthest above the national average in Colorado, at 0.8 times. Read food and beverage plants for how its pallets are sorted.
The metro that matters in Colorado
Denver-Aurora-Centennial. Denver-Aurora-Centennial: 10 counties (Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Clear Creek, Denver, Douglas...). 15,858 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.83% of the US total; 1.1% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Adams (12,162), Denver (2,456), Arapahoe (944). Most concentrated: warehousing and storage at 0.8x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 80011 Aurora (42), 80239 Denver (30), 80216 Denver (22), 80238 Denver (12), 80022 Commerce City (12).
Where Colorado sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Colorado | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 25th: 24,541 | Connecticut, 25,127 (+586) | Alabama, 21,880 (-2,661) |
| Warehousing establishments | 27th: 304 | Mississippi, 305 (+1) | Kansas, 293 (-11) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 27th: 26,569 | Oregon, 28,203 (+1,634) | Mississippi, 24,727 (-1,842) |
States next to Colorado
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 1,974 | Laramie (1,747) | 902 | chemical manufacturing |
| Nebraska | 8,246 | Sarpy (3,613) | 41,939 | meat and poultry processing |
| Kansas | 21,158 | Johnson (6,642) | 37,772 | meat and poultry processing |
| Oklahoma | 19,669 | Oklahoma (8,307) | 20,047 | meat and poultry processing |
| New Mexico | 5,725 | Doña Ana (411) | 6,374 | dairy product manufacturing |
| Utah | 13,683 | Salt Lake (6,623) | 23,423 | dairy product manufacturing |
Colorado has more warehousing jobs than any of these. The largest of them, Kansas, has 0.9 times Colorado's 24,541. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Colorado
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 4,960 | 0.2 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 1,123 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Colorado
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a rotated hygienic stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Colorado have?
24,541 private-sector jobs across 304 establishments in 2025, 1.29% of the US total, which ranks Colorado 25th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Colorado?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Colorado. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Colorado industry is most concentrated?
Food manufacturing, at 0.8 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Food and beverage distributors and bottlers
- Clean, odour-free, washable pallets; open or closed deck; 56 x 44 beverage and 48 x 40 sizes; often asks about food-contact paperwork.
- Closed-loop and captive pallet users
- Large uniform lots of one size and style; repair and replacement parts.
- Plants changing packaging or pallet size
- Retire a whole stock of one footprint at once; want it sold or ground up, not landfilled.
What the sources say
- PHS lists a 56 x 44 beverage pallet (STK 285) at 2,500 lb dynamic and 30,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- Counties with the most private refrigerated warehousing jobs (NAICS 49312) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (2,320), Middlesex County, New Jersey (1,661), San Bernardino County, California (1,565), Cook County, Illinois (1,552), Wayne County, Michigan (1,041), Maricopa County, Arizona (871). (data.bls.gov)
- That nestable has a 2.50 in nest increment and 1,260 units per 53 ft trailer. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Rehrig Pacific offers the standard-duty nestable with recycled content of up to 90 percent in black, and describes it as 100 percent recyclable. (rehrigpacific.com)
- That used pallet is listed as pharma and food safe but not approved for direct food contact, in colours that vary. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Pallet capacities are issued by the manufacturer from calculation and lab or field tests, and assume an evenly distributed load. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Freezing can make some pallet materials brittle and reduce performance. (nelsoncompany.com)
- PHS lists a 48 x 48 stackable pallet (STK 207) at 4,000 lb dynamic and 30,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- PHS lists a 48 x 32 stackable pallet (STK 783) at 3,500 lb dynamic and 15,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- Plastic pallets are often described as lasting 100 trips or more, and can cost roughly 10 times as much as hardwood pallets. (en.wikipedia.org)
- An ICC article says unlisted plastic pallets may require raising the commodity hazard class by two classes, and gives an example needing about 55 percent more sprinkler water. (iccsafe.org)
- A 2010 insurer figure cited by ICC puts fire spread to a pallet above at about 18 minutes for plastic versus nearly 50 for wood. (iccsafe.org)
- HDPE has resin identification code 2, a density of 930 to 970 kg/m3, melts at 131.8 C and is hard to glue, so joints are usually welded. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Rehrig Pacific says its reusable products are designed to be recyclable at end of life and run a buyback program. (rehrigpacific.com)
- In December 2011 a Los Angeles County Sheriff task force recovered over $250,000 of illegally obtained plastic pallets, including iGPS pallets, from a plastic recycler. (eponline.com)
- Rehrig Pacific's heavy-duty nestable can be made with post-consumer or post-industrial recycled material, up to 30 percent in black and up to 10 percent in colour, and is RFID compatible. (rehrigpacific.com)
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