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The area reaches into Lackawanna, Luzerne and Wyoming 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],"Luzerne","13,602","71.9 percent",[29,30,31],"Lackawanna","5,310","28.1 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":34,"blocks":35},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[36,61],{"t":18,"head":37,"rows":41,"caption":60},[38,39,40],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[42,46,50,54,57],[43,44,45],"18640","Pittston","28",[47,48,49],"18202","Hazleton","16",[51,52,53],"18706","Wilkes Barre","4",[55,56,53],"18504","Scranton",[58,59,53],"18424","Gouldsboro","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":62},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 56 establishments between them. Pittston (18640) leads with 28, 50.0 percent of the five.",{"h2":64,"blocks":65},"Reading the numbers",[66],{"t":67,"items":68},"ul",[69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91],"Luzerne County has 13,602 warehousing jobs, 71.9 percent of the 18,912 in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area.","Lackawanna County has 5,310 warehousing jobs, 28.1 percent of the 18,912 in the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area, 8,292 fewer than Luzerne.","Hazleton (18202) has 12 fewer warehousing establishments than Pittston (18640), 16 against 28.","Wilkes Barre (18706) has 24 fewer warehousing establishments than Pittston (18640), 4 against 28.","Scranton (18504) has 24 fewer warehousing establishments than Pittston (18640), 4 against 28.","Gouldsboro (18424) has 24 fewer warehousing establishments than Pittston (18640), 4 against 28.","Luzerne County's 13,602 is 11.0 percent of all 123,481 warehousing jobs in Pennsylvania.","Lackawanna County's 5,310 is 4.3 percent of all 123,481 warehousing jobs in Pennsylvania.","ZIP 18640 in Pittston ranks number 1 of the five, with 28 warehousing establishments, 50.0 percent of their combined total and 7.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18202 in Hazleton ranks number 2 of the five, with 16 warehousing establishments, 28.6 percent of their combined total and 4.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18706 in Wilkes Barre ranks number 3 of the five, with 4 warehousing establishments, 7.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18504 in Scranton ranks number 4 of the five, with 4 warehousing establishments, 7.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 18424 in Gouldsboro ranks number 5 of the five, with 4 warehousing establishments, 7.1 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Warehousing and storage employs 18,912 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Beverage manufacturing employs 1,378 in the area (partial), 0.07 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 4,798 in the area (partial), 0.25 for every warehousing job.","Pennsylvania's warehousing and storage employment, 123,481, is 6.53 times the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's plastics product manufacturing employment, 34,094, is 1.80 times the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employment, 20,358, is 1.08 times the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area's warehousing jobs.","Pennsylvania's refrigerated warehousing employment, 4,102, is 0.22 times the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre area's warehousing jobs.","Lehigh Valley, also in Pennsylvania, has 19,122 warehousing jobs, 1.01 times Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's.","Harrisburg, also in Pennsylvania, has 17,241 warehousing jobs, 0.91 times Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's.","Philadelphia, also in Pennsylvania, has 38,250 warehousing jobs, 2.02 times Scranton-Wilkes-Barre's.",{"h2":93,"blocks":94},"Who ships pallets here",[95,114],{"t":18,"head":96,"rows":100,"caption":113},[97,98,99],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[101,105,109],[102,103,104],"Warehousing and storage","18,912 (partial)","1.00",[106,107,108],"Beverage manufacturing","1,378 (partial)","0.07",[110,111,112],"Food manufacturing","4,798 (partial)","0.25","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":115},"In Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, warehousing and storage employs 18,912 (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.",{"h2":117,"blocks":118},"The empty return",[119,121],{"t":10,"text":120},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 56 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 67,200 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":122,"rows":127,"caption":139},[123,124,125,126],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[128,133,137],[129,130,131,132],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","1,260","54","125",[134,135,136,132],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","38",[138,130,131,132],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":141,"blocks":142},"In its state",[143,145,147,149],{"t":10,"text":144},"Among the 6 metros of Pennsylvania that have a page here, Scranton-Wilkes-Barre ranks number 3 by warehousing jobs.",{"t":10,"text":146},"Scranton-Wilkes-Barre holds 15.3 percent of Pennsylvania's 123,481 private warehousing jobs. See the [Pennsylvania page](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fpennsylvania) for the whole state.",{"t":10,"text":148},"Other metros in Pennsylvania with their own page: [Lehigh Valley](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flehigh-valley), [Harrisburg](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fharrisburg), [Philadelphia](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fphiladelphia), [Pittsburgh](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fpittsburgh) and [Lancaster](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Flancaster).",{"t":10,"text":150},"Interstates serving the area: [I-81](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fcorridors\u002Fi-81) and [I-80](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fcorridors\u002Fi-80).",{"h2":152,"blocks":153},"Words on this page",[154],{"t":155,"rows":156},"dl",[157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181],[158,159],"ZIP Code Business Patterns","A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.",[161,162],"HDPE","High-density polyethylene, a tough resin used in many plastic pallets, valued for strength against its weight.",[164,165],"Beam span","The open gap between two rack beams. 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