Sell plastic pallets in Oklahoma
Oklahoma had 19,669 warehousing jobs in 2025, 30th 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
Oklahoma in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 19,669 (30th of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 186 (35th of 50); about 106 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 1.03%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 20,047 (31st of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- meat and poultry processing, 2.1x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 846
- Auto parts jobs
- 1,793
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 10 million cubic feet (32nd of 50)
Reading an Oklahoma lot
Oklahoma ranks 30th for warehousing jobs and 35th for establishments. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. The average warehouse employs about 106 people, against 82 across the fifty states. Larger sites mean larger stacks, so lots tend to arrive as whole stocks.
Oklahoma has 1.0 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, auto parts (1,793 jobs) is 2.1 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (846).
Oklahoma County holds 42.2% of Oklahoma's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 66.5%. 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 Oklahoma: Oklahoma City.
USDA counted 10 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Oklahoma, 32nd of 50 and about 508 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 Oklahoma's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8,307 | 42.2% |
| Tulsa | 4,614 | 23.5% |
| Garfield | 150 | 0.8% |
What Oklahoma's industries put on the dock
- Meat and poultry processing: 11,968 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 20,047 jobs, 2025
Oklahoma's most concentrated industry is meat and poultry processing, at 2.1 times the national share of employment. See how lots from meat and poultry plants read.
The metro that matters in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City: 7 counties (Canadian, Cleveland, Grady, Lincoln, Logan, McClain...). 8,336 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.44% of the US total; 1.5% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Oklahoma (8,307), Canadian (29). Most concentrated: warehousing and storage at 1.1x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 73179 Oklahoma City (9), 73127 Oklahoma City (9), 73108 Oklahoma City (7), 73131 Oklahoma City (5), 73128 Oklahoma City (5).
Where Oklahoma sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Oklahoma | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 30th: 19,669 | Iowa, 19,824 (+155) | Minnesota, 17,921 (-1,748) |
| Warehousing establishments | 35th: 186 | Connecticut, 193 (+7) | Nebraska, 156 (-30) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 31st: 20,047 | Idaho, 21,363 (+1,316) | Maryland, 19,600 (-447) |
States next to Oklahoma
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 21,158 | Johnson (6,642) | 37,772 | meat and poultry processing |
| Missouri | 26,726 | St. Charles (5,782) | 45,268 | motor vehicle manufacturing |
| Arkansas | 15,624 | Pulaski (7,477) | 51,799 | meat and poultry processing |
| Texas | 175,579 | Dallas (44,657) | 112,088 | warehousing and storage |
| New Mexico | 5,725 | Doña Ana (411) | 6,374 | dairy product manufacturing |
| Colorado | 24,541 | Adams (12,162) | 26,569 | food manufacturing |
Oklahoma has fewer warehousing jobs than 4 of these 6 and more than the rest. The largest of them, Texas, has 8.9 times Oklahoma's 19,669. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
Other pallet-using industries counted in Oklahoma
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 846 | 0.0 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 1,793 | 0.1 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Oklahoma
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 Oklahoma have?
19,669 private-sector jobs across 186 establishments in 2025, 1.03% of the US total, which ranks Oklahoma 30th of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Oklahoma?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Oklahoma. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Oklahoma industry is most concentrated?
Meat and poultry processing, at 2.1 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- 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.
- Closed-loop and captive pallet users
- Large uniform lots of one size and style; repair and replacement parts.
What the sources say
- About 500 million pallets are made each year as of 2020, with about 2 billion in use in the US. (en.wikipedia.org)
- Metal pallets are under 1 percent of the pallet market. (en.wikipedia.org)
- 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)
- FM 4996 passes a pallet if fire is controlled at 5.9 mm/min (0.15 GPM/ft2) within a 10-minute test of eight 1.2 m stacks. (iccsafe.org)
- UL 2335 has an idle pallet test and a commodity storage test. (iccsafe.org)
- Greystone Logistics processed about 60 million pounds of recycled plastic in the year ended May 31, 2024, using damaged plastic pallets from a buy-back program among its feedstock. (resource-recycling.com)
- A 48 x 40 pallet fits 30 stacks in a turned pattern on a 53 ft dry van, per one supplier. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Warehousing and storage (NAICS 493) was 1.4% of the 133,160,274 private-sector jobs QCEW counted in the US in 2025. (data.bls.gov)
- USDA NASS counted 931 refrigerated warehouses on October 1, 2025: 476 public and 455 private or semiprivate. Public warehouses held 2.46 billion gross cubic feet, 62 percent of the total. (esmis.nal.usda.gov)
- Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 TEUs in 2025 (imports 4,779,559; exports 1,141,113; empties 3,960,925), per Container News reporting the port's year-end results. (container-news.com)
- Port Houston says it supports 1.54 million jobs in Texas and 3.37 million nationwide, and that its 2025 growth included petrochemical and industrial shipments, manufacturing-related freight and consumer imports. (porthouston.com)
- The Northwest Seaport Alliance (Seattle and Tacoma) handled 3,156,598 TEUs of international and domestic containers in 2025, down 5.5 percent from 2024, with full imports down 10.3 percent and full exports down 4.9 percent. (nwseaportalliance.com)
- States where food manufacturing is the largest share of private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW): Nebraska (4.9%), Arkansas (4.7%), Iowa (4.6%), Alaska (3.4%), Wisconsin (3.2%); the national share is 1.33%. (data.bls.gov)
- Wood packaging material entering the US must be treated and certified per ISPM 15. (aphis.usda.gov)
- That Nelson model is under 5 in tall, which the page says suits air freight, and works with automation and most roller conveyors. (nelsoncompany.com)
- That nestable has a 2.50 in nest increment and 1,260 units per 53 ft trailer. (rehrigpacific.com)
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