Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Orlando

Orlando, by road

I-4 and the Turnpike meet here, and theme-park resorts and consumer distribution share the same roads. Orlando is counted here as the metropolitan area in Florida that the Census Bureau delineates, and its pallet traffic is set by that geography.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 0.8 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 80 establishments between them. Orlando (32824) leads with 28, 35.0 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Orange County has 12,412 warehousing jobs, 89.1 percent of the 13,928 in the Orlando area.
• Lake County has 1,463 warehousing jobs, 10.5 percent of the 13,928 in the Orlando area, 10,949 fewer than Orange.
• Seminole County has 53 warehousing jobs, 0.4 percent of the 13,928 in the Orlando area, 12,359 fewer than Orange.
• Orlando (32809) has 6 fewer warehousing establishments than Orlando (32824), 22 against 28.
• Orlando (32837) has 17 fewer warehousing establishments than Orlando (32824), 11 against 28.
• Orlando (32819) has 17 fewer warehousing establishments than Orlando (32824), 11 against 28.
• Orlando (32808) has 20 fewer warehousing establishments than Orlando (32824), 8 against 28.
• Orange County's 12,412 is 11.8 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• Lake County's 1,463 is 1.4 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• Seminole County's 53 is 0.1 percent of all 105,401 warehousing jobs in Florida.
• ZIP 32824 in Orlando ranks number 1 of the five, with 28 warehousing establishments, 35.0 percent of their combined total and 3.50 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32809 in Orlando ranks number 2 of the five, with 22 warehousing establishments, 27.5 percent of their combined total and 2.75 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32837 in Orlando ranks number 3 of the five, with 11 warehousing establishments, 13.8 percent of their combined total and 1.38 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32819 in Orlando ranks number 4 of the five, with 11 warehousing establishments, 13.8 percent of their combined total and 1.38 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 32808 in Orlando ranks number 5 of the five, with 8 warehousing establishments, 10.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 13,928 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 8,723 in the area, 0.63 for every warehousing job.
• Florida's warehousing and storage employment, 105,401, is 7.57 times the Orlando area's warehousing jobs.
• Florida's grocery and related product wholesale employment, 63,967, is 4.59 times the Orlando area's warehousing jobs.
• Miami, also in Florida, has 22,104 warehousing jobs, 1.59 times Orlando's.
• Jacksonville, also in Florida, has 15,384 warehousing jobs, 1.10 times Orlando's.
• Tampa, also in Florida, has 13,205 warehousing jobs, 0.95 times Orlando's.

Who ships pallets here

In Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, warehousing and storage employs 13,928 (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 80 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Orlando sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 64,000 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.

In its state

Among the 4 metros of Florida that have a page here, Orlando ranks number 3 by warehousing jobs.

Orlando holds 13.2 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, Jacksonville and Tampa.

Words on this page

QCEW

The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, a Bureau of Labor Statistics count of jobs and establishments taken from unemployment insurance records.

Drayage

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

UL

Underwriters Laboratories, a safety testing body that publishes fire test standards, including one for storage pallets.

Cold chain

The linked storage and transport steps that keep refrigerated or frozen goods at temperature.

Interstate corridor

A freight route named for its highway, together with the metros along it.

Reefer

A refrigerated trailer or container.

Cross-docking

Moving freight from an inbound truck to an outbound one with little or no storage between.

Nest ratio

How many empty pallets fit in the height of one: pallet height divided by nest increment.

3PL

A third-party logistics company that stores and ships goods for other businesses.