Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Reno

Reno, by road

Geography first: i-80 and US-395 meet here, and the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center east of town draws large distribution tenants. That is the setting for a pallet buyer in the Reno area of Nevada.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 3.5 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Lyon, Storey and Washoe counties.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 84 establishments between them. Reno (89506) leads with 22, 26.2 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Washoe County has 9,662 warehousing jobs, 78.8 percent of the 12,269 in the Reno area.
• Storey County has 2,607 warehousing jobs, 21.2 percent of the 12,269 in the Reno area, 7,055 fewer than Washoe.
• Sparks (89431) has 1 fewer warehousing establishments than Reno (89506), 21 against 22.
• Sparks (89434) has 2 fewer warehousing establishments than Reno (89506), 20 against 22.
• Reno (89521) has 10 fewer warehousing establishments than Reno (89506), 12 against 22.
• Reno (89502) has 13 fewer warehousing establishments than Reno (89506), 9 against 22.
• Washoe County's 9,662 is 22.9 percent of all 42,113 warehousing jobs in Nevada.
• Storey County's 2,607 is 6.2 percent of all 42,113 warehousing jobs in Nevada.
• ZIP 89506 in Reno ranks number 1 of the five, with 22 warehousing establishments, 26.2 percent of their combined total and 2.44 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89431 in Sparks ranks number 2 of the five, with 21 warehousing establishments, 25.0 percent of their combined total and 2.33 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89434 in Sparks ranks number 3 of the five, with 20 warehousing establishments, 23.8 percent of their combined total and 2.22 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89521 in Reno ranks number 4 of the five, with 12 warehousing establishments, 14.3 percent of their combined total and 1.33 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 89502 in Reno ranks number 5 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 10.7 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 12,269 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 2,659 in the area, 0.22 for every warehousing job.
• Nevada's warehousing and storage employment, 42,113, is 3.43 times the Reno area's warehousing jobs.
• Nevada's food manufacturing employment, 8,424, is 0.69 times the Reno area's warehousing jobs.
• Las Vegas, also in Nevada, has 28,250 warehousing jobs, 2.30 times Reno's.

Who ships pallets here

In Reno, warehousing and storage employs 12,269 (a partial count). Most of the demand is for general pallets in the common footprint, with the choice split between rack service and block stacking. 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 84 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Reno sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 42,000 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 2 metros of Nevada that have a page here, Reno ranks number 2 by warehousing jobs.

Reno holds 29.1 percent of Nevada's 42,113 private warehousing jobs. See the Nevada page for the whole state.

Other metros in Nevada with their own page: Las Vegas.

Interstates serving the area: I-80.

Words on this page

Beam span

The open gap between two rack beams. The longer the span, the lower the load the pallet can carry across it.

Location quotient

A place's share of employment in a trade divided by the national share. Above 1 means the trade is more concentrated there than average.

Dunnage

Loose material used to support or secure cargo inside a trailer or container.

3PL

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

Reefer

A refrigerated trailer or container.

Nest ratio

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

QCEW

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

Last mile

The final leg of a delivery, from a local depot to the customer.

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.