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The area reaches into Atascosa, Bandera, Bexar, Comal, Guadalupe and Kendall... counties.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":32},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24,28],[25,26,27],"Bexar","14,487","86.5 percent",[29,30,31],"Comal","2,264","13.5 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":34,"blocks":35},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[36,60],{"t":18,"head":37,"rows":41,"caption":59},[38,39,40],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[42,46,49,53,56],[43,44,45],"78218","San Antonio","29",[47,44,48],"78219","16",[50,51,52],"78154","Schertz","7",[54,44,55],"78207","6",[57,44,58],"78226","5","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":61},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 63 establishments between them. 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Assembly plants run closed loops with fixed footprints, and 48 x 45 in matches heavy-duty auto parts bulk containers. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets in a closed loop, usually in 48 x 45 in, and to ask about the dynamic load for the heaviest part and the pallet's fit with the bulk container.",{"h2":109,"blocks":110},"The empty return",[111,113],{"t":10,"text":112},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 63 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in San Antonio sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 75,600 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":114,"rows":119,"caption":131},[115,116,117,118],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[120,125,129],[121,122,123,124],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","60","140",[126,127,128,124],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","33",[130,122,123,124],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":133,"blocks":134},"In its state",[135,137,139,141],{"t":10,"text":136},"Among the 5 metros of Texas that have a page here, San Antonio ranks number 3 by warehousing jobs.",{"t":10,"text":138},"San Antonio holds 9.5 percent of Texas's 175,579 private warehousing jobs. 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