Sell plastic pallets in New Jersey
New Jersey had 76,152 warehousing jobs in 2025, 8th among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is pharmaceutical and medicine 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
New Jersey in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 76,152 (8th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 911 (7th of 50); about 84 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 4.00%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 43,231 (16th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, 3.1x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 30,062
- Motor vehicle assembly jobs
- 167
- Auto parts jobs
- 1,046
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 137 million cubic feet (10th of 50)
Reading a New Jersey lot
New Jersey ranks 8th for warehousing jobs and 7th for establishments. It sits in the upper third of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 84 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Larger sites mean larger stacks, so lots tend to arrive as whole stocks.
New Jersey has 0.6 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. The warehouses are the bigger half of the picture here, so expect strays and mixed makers on one dock. Among the other industries counted here, pharmaceutical manufacturing (30,062 jobs) is 180 times the size of motor vehicle assembly (167).
Middlesex County holds 34.5% of New Jersey's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 61.7%. 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 New Jersey: Northern New Jersey.
USDA counted 137 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in New Jersey, 10th of 50 and about 1,799 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 New Jersey's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Middlesex | 26,309 | 34.5% |
| Burlington | 10,713 | 14.1% |
| Gloucester | 9,948 | 13.1% |
What New Jersey's industries put on the dock
- Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing: 30,062 jobs, 2025
- Refrigerated warehousing: 5,388 jobs, 2025
- Chemical manufacturing: 47,966 jobs, 2025
- Grocery and related product wholesale: 38,127 jobs, 2025
- Warehousing and storage: 76,152 jobs, 2025
New Jersey's most concentrated industry is pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, at 3.1 times the national share of employment. See how lots from pharmaceutical plants read.
The metro that matters in New Jersey
Northern New Jersey. Northern New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Passaic, Union): 6 counties (Middlesex, Essex, Union, Bergen, Hudson, Passaic). 39,367 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (2.07% of the US total; 2.4% of local private jobs). Largest warehousing counties: Middlesex (26,309), Hudson (4,344), Bergen (3,580). Most concentrated: pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing at 3.6x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 08817 Edison (41), 07094 Secaucus (28), 08810 Dayton (27), 08837 Edison (26), 08512 Cranbury (24). The Port of New York and New Jersey was the nation's second-busiest port for loaded containers in 2025, and the warehouses in these six counties sit within the port's reach.
Where New Jersey sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | New Jersey | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 8th: 76,152 | Illinois, 80,071 (+3,919) | Indiana, 67,506 (-8,646) |
| Warehousing establishments | 7th: 911 | Ohio, 1,022 (+111) | Illinois, 864 (-47) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 16th: 43,231 | Michigan, 44,404 (+1,173) | Nebraska, 41,939 (-1,292) |
States next to New Jersey
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 55,371 | Onondaga (6,329) | 60,316 | food manufacturing |
| Pennsylvania | 123,481 | Luzerne (13,602) | 82,538 | warehousing and storage |
| Delaware | 12,495 | Sussex (80) | 11,157 | meat and poultry processing |
New Jersey has fewer warehousing jobs than 1 of these 3 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Pennsylvania, has 1.6 times New Jersey's 76,152. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on New Jersey from the sources
- 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 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)
- Private employers in the US averaged 892,426 jobs across 25,801 establishments in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) in 2025 (BLS QCEW). States with the most jobs: Texas (90,310), California (75,499), Ohio (49,328), Illinois (48,745), New Jersey (47,966). (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)
Other pallet-using industries counted in New Jersey
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 30,062 | 0.4 to 1 |
| Motor vehicle assembly | 167 | 0.0 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 1,046 | 0.0 to 1 |
Sending a lot from New Jersey
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a clean closed-loop stock, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does New Jersey have?
76,152 private-sector jobs across 911 establishments in 2025, 4.00% of the US total, which ranks New Jersey 8th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from New Jersey?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in New Jersey. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which New Jersey industry is most concentrated?
Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing, at 3.1 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
What the sources say
- 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)
- 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)
- Port Houston's public terminals handled 4,303,345 TEUs in 2025 (up 4 percent, a record) and 54,491,066 short tons of cargo; the Houston Ship Channel is described as the nation's largest port for waterborne tonnage, with more than 200 private and eight public terminals. (porthouston.com)
- 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)
- 48 x 48 plastic pallets hold four 55-gallon drums without overhang; 48 x 45 matches North American auto parts bulk containers. (nelsoncompany.com)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 56 x 44 beverage pallet (STK 285) at 2,500 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)
- iGPS announced FM approval in 2008 for its all-plastic RFID-tagged pooled pallet, which had UL 2335 certification from 2007. (freightwaves.com)
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