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The area reaches into Barry, Ionia, Kent, Montcalm and Ottawa counties.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":32},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24,28],[25,26,27],"Kent","3,064","98.0 percent",[29,30,31],"Ottawa","61","2.0 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":34,"blocks":35},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[36,60],{"t":18,"head":37,"rows":41,"caption":59},[38,39,40],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[42,46,49,52,56],[43,44,45],"49512","Grand Rapids","11",[47,44,48],"49544","10",[50,44,51],"49548","8",[53,54,55],"49509","Wyoming","7",[57,44,58],"49503","5","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":61},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 41 establishments between them. 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Suppliers weigh the dynamic rating against the way parts move, and ask whether the pallet nests when it comes back empty. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets, nestable on the empty return, usually in 48 x 45 in or 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the dynamic load, since parts travel on forklifts and conveyors all day.",{"h2":129,"blocks":130},"The empty return",[131,133],{"t":10,"text":132},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 41 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Grand Rapids sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 32,800 pallets. 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See the [Michigan page](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmichigan) for the whole state.",{"t":10,"text":161},"Other metros in Michigan with their own page: [Detroit](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fdetroit).",{"h2":163,"blocks":164},"Words on this page",[165],{"t":166,"rows":167},"dl",[168,171,174,177,180,183,186,189,192],[169,170],"QCEW","The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, a Bureau of Labor Statistics count of jobs and establishments taken from unemployment insurance records.",[172,173],"Commodity class","A fire-protection category for stored goods and their pallets, used to design sprinkler systems.",[175,176],"Racking load","The weight a pallet holds when it rests on two rack beams with an open gap between them. 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