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The area reaches into Warren, Carbon, Lehigh and Northampton 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],"Lehigh","9,774","51.1 percent",[29,30,31],"Northampton","9,164","47.9 percent",[33,34,35],"Warren","184","1.0 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,65],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":64},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,50,53,57,61],[47,48,49],"18031","Breinigsville","12",[51,52,49],"18015","Bethlehem",[54,55,56],"18106","Allentown","10",[58,59,60],"18045","Easton","9",[62,52,63],"18020","7","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":66},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 50 establishments between them. Breinigsville (18031) leads with 12, 24.0 percent of the five.",{"h2":68,"blocks":69},"Reading the numbers",[70],{"t":71,"items":72},"ul",[73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98],"Lehigh County has 9,774 warehousing jobs, 51.1 percent of the 19,122 in the Lehigh Valley area.","Northampton County has 9,164 warehousing jobs, 47.9 percent of the 19,122 in the Lehigh Valley area, 610 fewer than Lehigh.","Warren County has 184 warehousing jobs, 1.0 percent of the 19,122 in the Lehigh Valley area, 9,590 fewer than Lehigh.","Bethlehem (18015) has 0 fewer warehousing establishments than Breinigsville (18031), 12 against 12.","Allentown (18106) has 2 fewer warehousing establishments than Breinigsville (18031), 10 against 12.","Easton (18045) has 3 fewer warehousing establishments than Breinigsville (18031), 9 against 12.","Bethlehem (18020) has 5 fewer warehousing establishments than Breinigsville (18031), 7 against 12.","Lehigh County's 9,774 is 7.9 percent of all 123,481 warehousing jobs in Pennsylvania.","Northampton County's 9,164 is 7.4 percent of all 123,481 warehousing jobs in Pennsylvania.","Warren County's 184 is 0.1 percent of all 123,481 warehousing jobs in Pennsylvania.","ZIP 18031 in Breinigsville ranks number 1 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 24.0 percent of their combined total and 1.71 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18015 in Bethlehem ranks number 2 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 24.0 percent of their combined total and 1.71 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18106 in Allentown ranks number 3 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 20.0 percent of their combined total and 1.43 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18045 in Easton ranks number 4 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 18.0 percent of their combined total and 1.29 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18020 in Bethlehem ranks number 5 of the five, with 7 warehousing establishments, 14.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Warehousing and storage employs 19,122 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Beverage manufacturing employs 2,486 in the area, 0.13 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 3,920 in the area (partial), 0.20 for every warehousing job.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 1,258 in the area, 0.07 for every warehousing job.","Pennsylvania's warehousing and storage employment, 123,481, is 6.46 times the Lehigh Valley area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's plastics product manufacturing employment, 34,094, is 1.78 times the Lehigh Valley area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employment, 20,358, is 1.06 times the Lehigh Valley area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's refrigerated warehousing employment, 4,102, is 0.21 times the Lehigh Valley area's warehousing jobs.","Harrisburg, also in Pennsylvania, has 17,241 warehousing jobs, 0.90 times Lehigh Valley's.","Philadelphia, also in Pennsylvania, has 38,250 warehousing jobs, 2.00 times Lehigh Valley's.","Pittsburgh, also in Pennsylvania, has 9,826 warehousing jobs, 0.51 times Lehigh Valley's.",{"h2":100,"blocks":101},"Who ships pallets here",[102,125],{"t":18,"head":103,"rows":107,"caption":124},[104,105,106],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[108,112,116,120],[109,110,111],"Warehousing and storage","19,122 (partial)","1.00",[113,114,115],"Beverage manufacturing","2,486","0.13",[117,118,119],"Chemical manufacturing","3,920 (partial)","0.20",[121,122,123],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","1,258","0.07","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":126},"In Lehigh Valley, warehousing and storage employs 19,122 (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.",{"h2":128,"blocks":129},"The empty return",[130,132],{"t":10,"text":131},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 50 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Lehigh Valley sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 40,000 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.",{"t":18,"head":133,"rows":138,"caption":152},[134,135,136,137],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[139,144,148],[140,141,142,143],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","18","75",[145,146,147,143],"Rehrig Pacific Heavy-duty nestable","1,200","34",[149,150,151,143],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","23","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":154,"blocks":155},"In its state",[156,158,160],{"t":10,"text":157},"Among the 6 metros of Pennsylvania that have a page here, Lehigh Valley ranks number 2 by warehousing jobs.",{"t":10,"text":159},"Lehigh Valley holds 15.5 percent of Pennsylvania's 123,481 private warehousing jobs. See the [Pennsylvania page](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fpennsylvania) for the whole state.",{"t":10,"text":161},"Other metros in Pennsylvania with their own page: [Harrisburg](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fharrisburg), [Philadelphia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fphiladelphia), [Pittsburgh](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fpittsburgh), [Lancaster](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flancaster) and [Scranton-Wilkes-Barre](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fscranton-wilkes-barre).",{"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],"Creep","Slow, permanent bending of plastic under a steady load. 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