Sell plastic pallets in Missouri
Missouri had 26,726 warehousing jobs in 2025, 22nd among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is motor vehicle 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
Missouri in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 26,726 (22nd of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 523 (17th of 50); about 51 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.41%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 45,268 (14th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- motor vehicle manufacturing, 2.5x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 6,745
- Motor vehicle assembly jobs
- 13,274
- Auto parts jobs
- 8,376
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 104 million cubic feet (12th of 50)
Reading a Missouri lot
Missouri ranks 22nd for warehousing jobs and 17th for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 51 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Smaller sites mean smaller stacks, so the count matters more than the size of the site.
Missouri has 1.7 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, motor vehicle assembly (13,274 jobs) is 2.0 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (6,745).
St. Charles County holds 21.6% of Missouri's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 44.6%. The jobs are spread across the state, so no one county sets the route. The dossier follows 2 metros in Missouri: Kansas City and St. Louis.
USDA counted 104 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Missouri, 12th of 50 and about 3,891 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 Missouri's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| St. Charles | 5,782 | 21.6% |
| Cass | 3,306 | 12.4% |
| Greene | 2,824 | 10.6% |
What Missouri's industries put on the dock
- Motor vehicle manufacturing: 13,274 jobs, 2025
- Dairy product manufacturing: 6,107 jobs, 2025
- Meat and poultry processing: 16,925 jobs, 2025
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: 4,877 jobs, 2025
- Chemical manufacturing: 22,970 jobs, 2025
Missouri's most concentrated industry is motor vehicle manufacturing, at 2.5 times the national share of employment. See how lots from automotive plants read.
Metros and freight clusters in Missouri
Kansas City. Kansas City: 14 counties (Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami, Wyandotte, Bates...). 20,676 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (1.09% of the US total; 2.2% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Johnson (6,642), Wyandotte (6,378), Cass (3,306). Most concentrated: warehousing and storage at 1.5x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 64161 Kansas City (18), 64116 Kansas City (14), 64120 Kansas City (13), 66021 Edgerton (11), 66115 Kansas City (9).
St. Louis. St. Louis: 15 counties (Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison...). 16,879 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.89% of the US total; 1.4% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Madison (7,612), St. Charles (5,782), St. Louis (2,274). Most concentrated: chemical manufacturing at 1.6x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 63042 Hazelwood (32), 62025 Edwardsville (17), 62040 Granite City (10), 63044 Bridgeton (9), 63147 Saint Louis (8).
Where Missouri sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Missouri | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 22nd: 26,726 | South Carolina, 27,150 (+424) | Mississippi, 25,454 (-1,272) |
| Warehousing establishments | 17th: 523 | South Carolina, 527 (+4) | Washington, 473 (-50) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 14th: 45,268 | Indiana, 46,474 (+1,206) | Michigan, 44,404 (-864) |
States next to Missouri
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 19,824 | Polk (4,393) | 60,161 | meat and poultry processing |
| Illinois | 80,071 | Will (25,357) | 98,300 | pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing |
| Kentucky | 38,281 | Boone (9,121) | 31,273 | motor vehicle manufacturing |
| Tennessee | 53,427 | Shelby (11,727) | 40,320 | motor vehicle parts manufacturing |
| Arkansas | 15,624 | Pulaski (7,477) | 51,799 | meat and poultry processing |
| Oklahoma | 19,669 | Oklahoma (8,307) | 20,047 | meat and poultry processing |
| Kansas | 21,158 | Johnson (6,642) | 37,772 | meat and poultry processing |
| Nebraska | 8,246 | Sarpy (3,613) | 41,939 | meat and poultry processing |
Missouri has fewer warehousing jobs than 3 of these 8 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Illinois, has 3.0 times Missouri's 26,726. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Missouri
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 6,745 | 0.3 to 1 |
| Motor vehicle assembly | 13,274 | 0.5 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 8,376 | 0.3 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Missouri
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a retired container footprint, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Missouri have?
26,726 private-sector jobs across 523 establishments in 2025, 1.41% of the US total, which ranks Missouri 22nd of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Missouri?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Missouri. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Missouri industry is most concentrated?
Motor vehicle manufacturing, at 2.5 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
What the sources say
- PHS lists a 48 x 32 stackable pallet (STK 783) at 3,500 lb dynamic and 15,000 lb static. (phsinc.com)
- 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)
- iGPS announced FM approval in 2008 for its all-plastic RFID-tagged pooled pallet, which had UL 2335 certification from 2007. (freightwaves.com)
- 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)
- The 800 x 1200 mm Euro footprint is the second most popular plastic pallet size worldwide. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
- Cabka says plastic export pallets are exempt from ISPM-15 treatment, that there is no single export size, and that its nestable export designs include extra-lightweight and air-freight versions. (cabka.com)
- The Port of New York and New Jersey was the nation's second-busiest port for loaded containers in 2025, per the Port Authority's full-year volume release as reported by Air Freight News. (airfreight.news)
- Fastmarkets estimates 3.7 billion pallets were in circulation in the US in 2025, and that annual pallet production rose from about 800 million before the pandemic to nearly one billion afterward. (fastmarkets.com)
- Steel, aluminum, plastic and engineered-wood pallets are exempt from ISPM 15; wood must reach a core temperature of 56 C for at least 30 minutes for heat treatment. (en.wikipedia.org)
- 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)
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