Sell plastic pallets in Oregon
Oregon had 16,750 warehousing jobs in 2025, 32nd among the states, and its most concentrated pallet-using industry is fruit and vegetable preserving. 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
Oregon in numbers
- Warehousing and storage jobs, 2025
- 16,750 (32nd of 50 states)
- Warehousing establishments
- 267 (30th of 50); about 63 jobs each
- Share of US warehousing jobs
- 0.88%
- Food manufacturing jobs
- 28,203 (26th of 50)
- Most concentrated pallet-using industry
- fruit and vegetable preserving, 4.1x the national share of employment
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing jobs
- 1,204
- Auto parts jobs
- 1,704
- Refrigerated warehouse space, October 1, 2025
- 139 million cubic feet (9th of 50)
Reading an Oregon lot
Count the warehouses and Oregon comes 30th; count the jobs in them and it comes 32nd. It sits in the middle of the fifty by warehousing jobs. With about 63 people a site against a national 82, a lot is often a few stacks from one of many small docks.
Oregon has 1.7 food manufacturing jobs for every warehousing job, against 0.9 across the fifty states. The plants are the bigger half of the picture, and they swap pallets on a schedule more than on wear. Among the other industries counted here, auto parts (1,704 jobs) is 1.4 times the size of pharmaceutical manufacturing (1,204).
Multnomah County holds 44.4% of Oregon's warehousing jobs, and the top 3 listed hold 79.5%. 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 Oregon: Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro.
USDA counted 139 million cubic feet of refrigerated warehouse space in Oregon, 9th of 50 and about 8,299 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 Oregon's warehousing jobs sit
| County | Warehousing jobs | Share of the state's total |
|---|---|---|
| Multnomah | 7,435 | 44.4% |
| Marion | 4,206 | 25.1% |
| Linn | 1,681 | 10.0% |
What Oregon's industries put on the dock
- Fruit and vegetable preserving: 9,076 jobs, 2025
- Beverage manufacturing: 7,137 jobs, 2025
- Food manufacturing: 28,203 jobs, 2025
By location quotient fruit and vegetable preserving leads in Oregon, with 4.1 times the national share of employment. The page on fruit and vegetable packers shows what that industry sets down on a dock.
The metro that matters in Oregon
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro: 7 counties (Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clark...). 8,157 private jobs in warehousing and storage in 2025 (0.43% of the US total; 0.8% of local private jobs), disclosed counties only. Largest warehousing counties: Multnomah (7,435), Clark (350), Clackamas (324). Most concentrated: food manufacturing at 1.0x the national share of employment. ZIPs with the most warehousing establishments (Census ZBP 2023): 97230 Portland (26), 97203 Portland (26), 97210 Portland (11), 97217 Portland (10), 97015 Clackamas (10).
Where Oregon sits among the fifty
| Measure, 2025 | Oregon | Next state above | Next state below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warehousing jobs | 32nd: 16,750 | Minnesota, 17,921 (+1,171) | Arkansas, 15,624 (-1,126) |
| Warehousing establishments | 30th: 267 | Utah, 290 (+23) | Massachusetts, 248 (-19) |
| Food manufacturing jobs | 26th: 28,203 | Massachusetts, 29,036 (+833) | Colorado, 26,569 (-1,634) |
States next to Oregon
| State | Warehousing jobs | Largest county for warehousing | Food manufacturing jobs | Top concentration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 36,691 | Pierce (10,323) | 39,687 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
| Idaho | 2,445 | Ada (1,025) | 21,363 | fruit and vegetable preserving |
| Nevada | 42,113 | Clark (28,250) | 8,424 | warehousing and storage |
| California | 236,923 | San Bernardino (67,058) | 166,660 | beverage manufacturing |
Oregon has fewer warehousing jobs than 3 of these 4 and more than the rest. The largest of them, California, has 14 times Oregon's 16,750. A lot near a state line can be read against either side, so give the exact ZIP.
More on Oregon from the sources
- 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)
Other pallet-using industries counted in Oregon
| Industry | Jobs, 2025 | Against warehousing jobs |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmaceutical manufacturing | 1,204 | 0.1 to 1 |
| Auto parts | 1,704 | 0.1 to 1 |
Sending a lot from Oregon
Count the stacks, give the ZIP where they stand, and use the sorter or the form below. If the dock holds a seasonal surge, say so in the message.
How many warehousing jobs does Oregon have?
16,750 private-sector jobs across 267 establishments in 2025, 0.88% of the US total, which ranks Oregon 32nd of 50.
Do you take plastic pallets from Oregon?
Yes. The desk reads lots from every state, and the ZIP lets it read the route in Oregon. This site states no price or pickup date.
Which Oregon industry is most concentrated?
Fruit and vegetable preserving, at 4.1 times the national share of employment in the 2025 federal data used here.
Who asks, and what they need
- Food and beverage distributors and bottlers
- Clean, odour-free, washable pallets; open or closed deck; 56 x 44 beverage and 48 x 40 sizes; often asks about food-contact paperwork.
- Pharmaceutical and healthcare shippers
- Hygienic pallets that can be sanitised; documents on resin and colour; PP sometimes preferred for sterilisation.
- Plastic recyclers and pallet makers
- Buy broken pallets by weight as HDPE or PP feedstock; want clean, sorted, separated by resin and colour.
What the sources say
- 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)
- 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)
- California AB 1760 (2022) lets recyclers take possession of stray proprietary pallets if the owner cannot be identified or fails to retrieve them in time, with a 35-day period before they can be declared abandoned. (palletenterprise.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)
- In December 2011 a Los Angeles County Sheriff task force recovered over $250,000 of illegally obtained plastic pallets, including iGPS pallets, from a plastic recycler. (eponline.com)
- 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 dairy product manufacturing jobs (NAICS 3115) in 2025, BLS QCEW, counties with disclosed data only: Sheboygan County, Wisconsin (3,238), Los Angeles County, California (3,204), Franklin County, Ohio (2,930), Tulare County, California (2,916), Dodge County, Wisconsin (2,659), Marathon County, Wisconsin (2,535). (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)
- Static capacity is the highest of the three ratings; racking is often the lowest; dynamic is always lower than static. (nelsoncompany.com)
- For products touching the pallet directly, stricter federal requirements may call for non-blended virgin HDPE; recycled pallets often meet general FDA needs. (nelsoncompany.com)
- Rehrig Pacific says its reusable products are designed to be recyclable at end of life and run a buyback program. (rehrigpacific.com)
- Nestable pallets can cut empty-pallet storage space by up to 75 percent. (blog.containerexchanger.com)
- PHS lists its EXP 100 nestable (48 x 40 x 5.2 in) at 78 pallets per stack and 2,340 per truckload, and its EXP 116 (48 x 40 x 5.75 in, 15,000 lb static) at 40 per stack and 1,260 per truckload: a higher static rating comes with fewer pallets per stack. (phsinc.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)
- Nelson Company defines dynamic capacity as the load a pallet carries in motion, always below static; static as the load at rest and the bottom pallet's limit in a stack; racking as the load across an open rack span, often the lowest and given only for pallets designed for it. (nelsoncompany.com)
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