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Los Angeles is counted here as the metropolitan area in California that the Census Bureau delineates, and its pallet traffic is set by that geography.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The Port of Los Angeles handled 9,447,731 TEUs from January through November 2025, and the Port of Long Beach moved a record 9,881,595 TEUs in 2025, so a very large share of the country's imports lands within a short drive of this area.",{"t":10,"text":15},"Grocery and related product wholesale is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.3 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Orange and Los Angeles counties.",{"h2":17,"blocks":18},"Counties",[19],{"t":20,"head":21,"rows":25,"caption":34},"table",[22,23,24],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[26,30],[27,28,29],"Los Angeles","19,954","73.3 percent",[31,32,33],"Orange","7,271","26.7 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":36,"blocks":37},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[38,63],{"t":20,"head":39,"rows":43,"caption":62},[40,41,42],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[44,48,51,55,59],[45,46,47],"90670","Santa Fe Springs","55",[49,27,50],"90058","53",[52,53,54],"91789","Walnut","39",[56,57,58],"91748","Rowland Heights","31",[60,27,61],"90040","27","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":64},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 205 establishments between them. 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Grocery distribution runs on the 48 x 40 in footprint, and the choice is between a pallet that stacks full and one that nests empty. It tends to lean on nestable and stackable in the common footprint, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about static load for mixed stacks and whether the deck is open or closed.",{"h2":112,"blocks":113},"The empty return",[114,116],{"t":10,"text":115},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 205 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Los Angeles sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 164,000 pallets. 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