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The area reaches into Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill and Clark... 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],"Multnomah","7,435","91.1 percent",[29,30,31],"Clark","350","4.3 percent",[33,34,35],"Clackamas","324","4.0 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":38,"blocks":39},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[40,61],{"t":18,"head":41,"rows":45,"caption":60},[42,43,44],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[46,50,52,55,58],[47,48,49],"97230","Portland","26",[51,48,49],"97203",[53,48,54],"97210","11",[56,48,57],"97217","10",[59,33,57],"97015","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":62},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 83 establishments between them. Portland (97230) leads with 26, 31.3 percent of the five.",{"h2":64,"blocks":65},"Reading the numbers",[66],{"t":67,"items":68},"ul",[69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88],"Multnomah County has 7,435 warehousing jobs, 91.1 percent of the 8,157 in the Portland area.","Clark County has 350 warehousing jobs, 4.3 percent of the 8,157 in the Portland area, 7,085 fewer than Multnomah.","Clackamas County has 324 warehousing jobs, 4.0 percent of the 8,157 in the Portland area, 7,111 fewer than Multnomah.","Portland (97203) has 0 fewer warehousing establishments than Portland (97230), 26 against 26.","Portland (97210) has 15 fewer warehousing establishments than Portland (97230), 11 against 26.","Portland (97217) has 16 fewer warehousing establishments than Portland (97230), 10 against 26.","Clackamas (97015) has 16 fewer warehousing establishments than Portland (97230), 10 against 26.","Multnomah County's 7,435 is 44.4 percent of all 16,750 warehousing jobs in Oregon.","Clark County's 350 is 2.1 percent of all 16,750 warehousing jobs in Oregon.","Clackamas County's 324 is 1.9 percent of all 16,750 warehousing jobs in Oregon.","ZIP 97230 in Portland ranks number 1 of the five, with 26 warehousing establishments, 31.3 percent of their combined total and 2.60 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 97203 in Portland ranks number 2 of the five, with 26 warehousing establishments, 31.3 percent of their combined total and 2.60 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 97210 in Portland ranks number 3 of the five, with 11 warehousing establishments, 13.3 percent of their combined total and 1.10 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 97217 in Portland ranks number 4 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 12.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 97015 in Clackamas ranks number 5 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 12.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Food manufacturing employs 13,772 in the area, 1.69 for every warehousing job.","Grocery and related product wholesale employs 8,259 in the area (partial), 1.01 for every warehousing job.","Oregon's fruit and vegetable preserving employment, 9,076, is 1.11 times the Portland area's warehousing jobs.","Oregon's beverage manufacturing employment, 7,137, is 0.87 times the Portland area's warehousing jobs.","Oregon's food manufacturing employment, 28,203, is 3.46 times the Portland area's warehousing jobs.",{"h2":90,"blocks":91},"Who ships pallets here",[92,107],{"t":18,"head":93,"rows":97,"caption":106},[94,95,96],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[98,102],[99,100,101],"Food manufacturing","13,772","1.69",[103,104,105],"Grocery and related product wholesale","8,259 (partial)","1.01","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":108},"In Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, food manufacturing employs 13,772. The buyer here is usually a plant or sanitation manager, and the questions are cleaning, deck type and what paperwork comes with the model. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.",{"h2":110,"blocks":111},"The empty return",[112,114],{"t":10,"text":113},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 83 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Portland sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 99,600 pallets. 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