Sell plastic pallets in Delaware
Delaware had 12,495 warehousing jobs in 2025, 36th 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
Delaware in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 12,495 (36th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 134 (38th of 50); about 93 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.66%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 11,157 (36th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- meat and poultry processing, 5.6x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 618
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 25 million cubic feet (27th of 50)
Reading a Delaware lot
Count the warehouses and Delaware comes 38th; count the jobs in them and it comes 36th. It is one of the smaller warehousing states, so a lot here is rarely one of many on the same road. With about 93 people a site against a national 82, a single dock here can hold a truckload at once.
Delaware has 0.9 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. Distribution carries more weight than food production, and a dock that receives from many suppliers collects many marks. The one other industry counted here is pharmaceutical manufacturing, at 618 jobs.
Sussex County holds 0.6% of Delaware's warehousing jobs, and the one listed county holds that share. The jobs are spread across the state, so no one county sets the route. None of the metros in the dossier sits inside Delaware, so a lot is read by its ZIP.
USDA counted 25 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Delaware, 27th of 50 and about 2,001 cubic feet for each warehousing job, against 2,254 across the states it reports. Cold storage is a smaller part of the picture here, so most lots come off ambient docks.
Where Delaware's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Sussex | 80 | 0.6% |
What Delaware's industries put on the dock
- Meat and poultry processing: 9,741 jobs, 2025
- Warehousing and storage: 12,495 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 11,157 jobs, 2025
By location quotient meat and poultry processing leads in Delaware, with 5.6 times the national share of employment. The page on meat and poultry plants shows what that industry sets down on a dock.
Where Delaware sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Delaware | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 36th: 12,495 | Utah, 13,683 (+1,188) | Nebraska, 8,246 (-4,249) |
| Warehousing establishments | 38th: 134 | Idaho, 146 (+12) | West Virginia, 100 (-34) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 36th: 11,157 | Arizona, 15,944 (+4,787) | South Dakota, 10,866 (-291) |
States next to Delaware
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 29,966 | Harford (3,435) | 19,600 | pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing |
| Pennsylvania | 123,481 | Luzerne (13,602) | 82,538 | warehousing and storage |
| New Jersey | 76,152 | Middlesex (26,309) | 43,231 | pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing |
Delaware has fewer warehousing jobs than each of these. The largest of them, Pennsylvania, has 9.9 times Delaware's 12,495. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on Delaware from the sources
- 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)
- 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 Delaware
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 618 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Delaware
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 Delaware have?
12,495 private-sector jobs across 134 establishments in 2025, 0.66% of the US total, which ranks Delaware 36th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Delaware?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Delaware. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Delaware industry is most concentrated?
Meat and poultry processing, at 5.6 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Words you will meet
- Structural foam
- Low-pressure moulding where a blowing agent expands the resin in the mould.
- Compression moulding
- Moulding by pressing resin in a closed mould; one of six processes in use.
- GMA pallet
- The 48 x 40 in North American standard footprint.
- CP9
- A chemical-industry pallet standard, 1140 x 1140 mm.
- Euro pallet
- 800 x 1200 mm footprint.
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.
- Export shippers
- Light or low-cost one-way pallets with no ISPM 15 treatment; Euro 1200 x 800 and 1200 x 1000 sizes.
- Warehouses with automated storage
- Rackable pallets with a stated rack rating, cruciform base, consistent size for conveyors.
What the sources say
- 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)
- 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)
- Counties with the most private warehousing and storage jobs (NAICS 493) in 2025, BLS QCEW: San Bernardino County, California (67,058), Riverside County, California (51,310), Dallas County, Texas (44,657), Maricopa County, Arizona (42,291), San Joaquin County, California (28,518), Clark County, Nevada (28,250), Middlesex County, New Jersey (26,309), Will County, Illinois (25,357). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private fruit and vegetable preserving jobs (NAICS 3114) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (3,695), Stanislaus County, California (3,669), Fresno County, California (3,355), Cook County, Illinois (2,861), Franklin County, Washington (2,520), Marion County, Oregon (2,273). (data.bls.gov)
- The five states with the most warehousing and storage jobs held 39% of the national total in 2025, and the top ten held 58% (California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Indiana, New York), BLS QCEW. (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3254) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Lake County, Illinois (16,883), Marion County, Indiana (16,292), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (11,878), Suffolk County, New York (10,760), Los Angeles County, California (8,300), San Diego County, California (8,028). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 73,136 jobs across 1,811 establishments in refrigerated warehousing (NAICS 49312) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (9,969), Texas (6,638), New Jersey (5,388), Georgia (4,453), Pennsylvania (4,102). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 316,938 jobs across 16,316 establishments in beverage manufacturing (NAICS 3121) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (63,604), Texas (24,154), New York (13,802), Pennsylvania (13,207), Florida (12,661). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 350,886 jobs across 7,786 establishments in pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing (NAICS 3254) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (42,575), New Jersey (30,062), North Carolina (26,998), New York (25,087), Illinois (24,257). (data.bls.gov)
- Refrigerated warehouse facility counts on October 1, 2025 (USDA NASS): California 106, Wisconsin 94, Georgia 62, Texas 56, Washington 52, Florida 50, Pennsylvania 38. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 1,775,008 jobs across 42,763 establishments in food manufacturing (NAICS 311) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (166,660), Texas (112,088), Illinois (98,300), Pennsylvania (82,538), Wisconsin (81,993). (data.bls.gov)
- Private employers in the US averaged 829,364 jobs across 49,933 establishments in grocery and related product wholesale (NAICS 4244) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: California (109,827), Texas (75,474), Florida (63,967), New York (50,594), Illinois (48,629). (data.bls.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)
- Counties with the most private motor vehicle manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3361) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Wayne County, Michigan (24,188), Bexar County, Texas (6,165), Cook County, Illinois (5,473), Eaton County, Michigan (4,432), Oakland County, Michigan (735), Los Angeles County, California (643). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private motor vehicle parts manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3363) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Wayne County, Michigan (20,888), Macomb County, Michigan (20,279), Oakland County, Michigan (16,970), Kent County, Michigan (8,688), Spartanburg County, South Carolina (6,496), Cook County, Illinois (6,273). (data.bls.gov)
- Counties with the most private grocery and related product wholesale jobs (NAICS 4244) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Los Angeles County, California (36,194), Cook County, Illinois (23,404), Miami-Dade County, Florida (14,422), Harris County, Texas (14,172), Dallas County, Texas (12,337), Maricopa County, Arizona (9,996). (data.bls.gov)
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