Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Jacksonville

Jacksonville, by road

The JAXPORT terminals sit where I-95 meets I-10 and I-295 rings the city. The Jacksonville area sits in Florida, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.6 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns county.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 78 establishments between them. Jacksonville (32218) leads with 23, 29.5 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Duval County has 15,372 warehousing jobs, 99.9 percent of the 15,384 in the Jacksonville area.
• Jacksonville (32254) has 5 fewer warehousing establishments than Jacksonville (32218), 18 against 23.
• Jacksonville (32219) has 9 fewer warehousing establishments than Jacksonville (32218), 14 against 23.
• Jacksonville (32220) has 10 fewer warehousing establishments than Jacksonville (32218), 13 against 23.
• Jacksonville (32256) has 13 fewer warehousing establishments than Jacksonville (32218), 10 against 23.
• Duval County's 15,372 is 14.6 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• ZIP 32218 in Jacksonville ranks number 1 of the five, with 23 warehousing establishments, 29.5 percent of their combined total and 2.30 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32254 in Jacksonville ranks number 2 of the five, with 18 warehousing establishments, 23.1 percent of their combined total and 1.80 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32219 in Jacksonville ranks number 3 of the five, with 14 warehousing establishments, 17.9 percent of their combined total and 1.40 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32220 in Jacksonville ranks number 4 of the five, with 13 warehousing establishments, 16.7 percent of their combined total and 1.30 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32256 in Jacksonville ranks number 5 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 12.8 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 15,384 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 3,198 in the area, 0.21 for every warehousing job.
• Florida's warehousing and storage employment, 105,401, is 6.85 times the Jacksonville area's warehousing jobs.
• Florida's grocery and related product wholesale employment, 63,967, is 4.16 times the Jacksonville area's warehousing jobs.
• Miami, also in Florida, has 22,104 warehousing jobs, 1.44 times Jacksonville's.
• Orlando, also in Florida, has 13,928 warehousing jobs, 0.91 times Jacksonville's.
• Tampa, also in Florida, has 13,205 warehousing jobs, 0.86 times Jacksonville's.

Who ships pallets here

In Jacksonville, warehousing and storage employs 15,384 (a partial count). Racks decide the order of questions: a pallet that sits on beams needs a racking load that matches the span, and a floor-stacked pallet needs a static load that matches the bottom of the stack. 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.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 78 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Jacksonville sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 93,600 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 4 metros of Florida that have a page here, Jacksonville ranks number 2 by warehousing jobs.

Jacksonville holds 14.6 percent of Florida's 105,401 private warehousing jobs. See the Florida page for the whole state.

Other metros in Florida with their own page: Miami, Orlando and Tampa.

Interstates serving the area: I-95 and I-10.

Words on this page

2-way entry

A pallet that can be lifted from only two opposite sides.

Location quotient

A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.

Metropolitan area

A group of counties around an urban core, as the Census Bureau delineates it. Metro pages here follow those lines.

Drayage

The short haul of a container between a port or rail ramp and a warehouse.

Creep

Slow, permanent bending of plastic under a steady load. A pallet can hold a load for an hour and bow under it after a month.

ISPM 15

An international standard on treating and marking wood packaging material. Plastic is outside it.

Establishment

A single physical location where a business operates, such as one warehouse. A company with ten warehouses has ten establishments.

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.

Beam span

The open gap between two rack beams. The longer the span, the lower the load the pallet can carry across it.