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The area reaches into Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Grainger, Knox and Loudon... 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],"Knox","1,454","83.0 percent",[29,30,31],"Loudon","257","14.7 percent",[33,34,35],"Roane","40","2.3 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,63],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":62},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,50,53,56,59],[47,48,49],"37921","Knoxville","8",[51,48,52],"37917","6",[54,48,55],"37922","4",[57,58,55],"37801","Maryville",[60,48,61],"37914","3","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":64},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 25 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":115,"blocks":116},"The empty return",[117,119],{"t":10,"text":118},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 25 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Knoxville sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 30,000 pallets. 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