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The area reaches into Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":36},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24,28,32],[25,26,27],"Dorchester","1,319","40.7 percent",[29,30,31],"Berkeley","1,107","34.1 percent",[33,34,35],"Charleston","816","25.2 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,64],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":63},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,50,54,58,61],[47,48,49],"29456","Ladson","16",[51,52,53],"29483","Summerville","13",[55,56,57],"29405","North Charleston","11",[59,33,60],"29492","9",[62,56,60],"29418","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":65},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 58 establishments between them. Ladson (29456) leads with 16, 27.6 percent of the five.",{"h2":67,"blocks":68},"Reading the numbers",[69],{"t":70,"items":71},"ul",[72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93],"Dorchester County has 1,319 warehousing jobs, 40.7 percent of the 3,242 in the Charleston, SC area.","Berkeley County has 1,107 warehousing jobs, 34.1 percent of the 3,242 in the Charleston, SC area, 212 fewer than Dorchester.","Charleston County has 816 warehousing jobs, 25.2 percent of the 3,242 in the Charleston, SC area, 503 fewer than Dorchester.","Summerville (29483) has 3 fewer warehousing establishments than Ladson (29456), 13 against 16.","North Charleston (29405) has 5 fewer warehousing establishments than Ladson (29456), 11 against 16.","Charleston (29492) has 7 fewer warehousing establishments than Ladson (29456), 9 against 16.","North Charleston (29418) has 7 fewer warehousing establishments than Ladson (29456), 9 against 16.","Dorchester County's 1,319 is 4.9 percent of all 27,150 warehousing jobs in South Carolina.","Berkeley County's 1,107 is 4.1 percent of all 27,150 warehousing jobs in South Carolina.","Charleston County's 816 is 3.0 percent of all 27,150 warehousing jobs in South Carolina.","ZIP 29456 in Ladson ranks number 1 of the five, with 16 warehousing establishments, 27.6 percent of their combined total and 1.78 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 29483 in Summerville ranks number 2 of the five, with 13 warehousing establishments, 22.4 percent of their combined total and 1.44 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 29405 in North Charleston ranks number 3 of the five, with 11 warehousing establishments, 19.0 percent of their combined total and 1.22 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 29492 in Charleston ranks number 4 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 15.5 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 29418 in North Charleston ranks number 5 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 15.5 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Warehousing and storage employs 3,242 in the area, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 2,486 in the area, 0.77 for every warehousing job.","South Carolina's motor vehicle manufacturing employment, 15,531, is 4.79 times the Charleston, SC area's warehousing jobs.","South Carolina's motor vehicle parts manufacturing employment, 21,585, is 6.66 times the Charleston, SC area's warehousing jobs.","South Carolina's chemical manufacturing employment, 22,678, is 7.00 times the Charleston, SC area's warehousing jobs.","South Carolina's plastics product manufacturing employment, 13,499, is 4.16 times the Charleston, SC area's warehousing jobs.","Greenville-Spartanburg, also in South Carolina, has 4,575 warehousing jobs, 1.41 times Charleston, SC's.",{"h2":95,"blocks":96},"Who ships pallets here",[97,112],{"t":18,"head":98,"rows":102,"caption":111},[99,100,101],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[103,107],[104,105,106],"Warehousing and storage","3,242","1.00",[108,109,110],"Chemical manufacturing","2,486","0.77","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":113},"In Charleston-North Charleston, warehousing and storage employs 3,242. Most of the demand is for general pallets in the common footprint, with the choice split between rack service and block stacking. It tends to lean on rackable where the pallet lives on beams, stackable for block stacking, nestable for the empties that go back, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the racking load, and the beam span it was rated on.",{"h2":115,"blocks":116},"The empty return",[117,119],{"t":10,"text":118},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 58 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Charleston, SC sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 46,400 pallets. 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