Sell plastic pallets in Louisiana
Louisiana had 15,312 warehousing jobs in 2025, 34th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is chemical 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
Louisiana in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 15,312 (34th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 326 (23rd of 50); about 47 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.81%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 16,970 (34th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- chemical manufacturing, 2.7x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 748
- Auto parts jobs
- 307
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 8 million cubic feet (33rd of 50)
Reading a Louisiana lot
Louisiana ranks 34th for warehousing jobs and 23rd for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 47 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Smaller sites mean smaller stacks, so the count matters more than the size of the site.
Louisiana has 1.1 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, pharmaceutical manufacturing (748 jobs) is 2.4 times the size of auto parts (307).
East Baton Rouge County holds 25.8% of Louisiana's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 51.5%. The jobs are spread across the state, so no one county sets the route. The dossier follows one metro in Louisiana: New Orleans-Metairie.
USDA counted 8 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Louisiana, 33rd of 50 and about 522 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 Louisiana's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| East Baton Rouge | 3,948 | 25.8% |
| Caddo | 2,610 | 17.0% |
| Tangipahoa | 1,330 | 8.7% |
What Louisiana's industries put on the dock
- Chemical manufacturing: 28,918 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 16,970 jobs, 2025
Louisiana's most concentrated industry is chemical manufacturing, at 2.7 times the national share of employment. See how lots from chemical plants read.
The metro that matters in Louisiana
New Orleans-Metairie. New Orleans-Metairie: 7 counties (Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James...). 2,090 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.11% of the US total; 0.5% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Jefferson (1,148), Orleans (680), St. Charles (198). Most concentrated: chemical manufacturing at 1.9x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 70121 New Orleans (9), 70123 New Orleans (8), 70001 Metairie (8), 70126 New Orleans (4), 70115 New Orleans (4).
Where Louisiana sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Louisiana | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 34th: 15,312 | Arkansas, 15,624 (+312) | Utah, 13,683 (-1,629) |
| Warehousing establishments | 23rd: 326 | Iowa, 338 (+12) | Minnesota, 312 (-14) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 34th: 16,970 | South Carolina, 17,789 (+819) | Arizona, 15,944 (-1,026) |
States next to Louisiana
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 175,579 | Dallas (44,657) | 112,088 | warehousing and storage |
| Arkansas | 15,624 | Pulaski (7,477) | 51,799 | meat and poultry processing |
| Mississippi | 25,454 | DeSoto (11,634) | 24,727 | meat and poultry processing |
Louisiana has fewer warehousing jobs than each of these. The largest of them, Texas, has 11 times Louisiana's 15,312. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Louisiana
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 748 | 0.0 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 307 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Louisiana
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a retired drum or bag footprint, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Louisiana have?
15,312 private-sector jobs across 326 establishments in 2025, 0.81% of the US total, which ranks Louisiana 34th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Louisiana?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Louisiana. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Louisiana industry is most concentrated?
Chemical manufacturing, at 2.7 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Closed-loop and captive pallet users
- Large uniform lots of one size and style; repair and replacement parts.
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare shippers
- Hygienic pallets that can be sanitised; documents on resin and colour; PP sometimes preferred for sterilisation.
- Chemical and drum shippers
- 48 x 48 and 45 x 45 pallets for drums and bags; chemical resistance.
What the sources say
- Census Bureau: seasonally adjusted e-commerce sales were $340.2 billion, 17.1 percent of total retail sales, in the second quarter of 2026 (released August 18, 2026). (census.gov)
- Only pallets designed for unsupported racking carry a racking rating. (nelsoncompany.com)
- 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)
- 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)
- North American plastic pallets in the common sizes are about 5 to 6 in tall. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
- 48 x 48 plastic pallets hold four 55-gallon drums without overhang; 48 x 45 matches North American auto parts bulk containers. (nelsoncompany.com)
- 43 x 43 in pallets are designed for bulk bags; 45 x 45 in is the CP9 chemical standard. (nelsoncompany.com)
- CHEP USA sued two California recyclers over CHEP-marked pallets they would not return; a Los Angeles court granted CHEP's motion to retrieve pallets in one case (article dated February 1, 2024). (palletenterprise.com)
- 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)
- 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)
- Port of Los Angeles handled 9,447,731 TEUs from January through November 2025, 1 percent more than the same months of 2024; its executive director called 2025 firmly a top-three year in the port's history. (portoflosangeles.org)
- 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)
- FDA's Food Traceability Rule (FSMA section 204) requires businesses that make, process, pack or hold foods on the Food Traceability List to keep Key Data Elements for Critical Tracking Events and share them within 24 hours of a request; FDA says Congress directed it not to enforce the rule before July 20, 2028. (fda.gov)
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