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The area reaches into Snohomish, King and Pierce counties.",{"h2":17,"blocks":18},"Counties",[19],{"t":20,"head":21,"rows":25,"caption":38},"table",[22,23,24],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[26,30,34],[27,28,29],"Pierce","10,323","44.8 percent",[31,32,33],"King","9,341","40.5 percent",[35,36,37],"Snohomish","3,398","14.7 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":40,"blocks":41},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[42,69],{"t":20,"head":43,"rows":47,"caption":68},[44,45,46],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[48,52,56,60,64],[49,50,51],"98032","Kent","41",[53,54,55],"98390","Sumner","33",[57,58,59],"98001","Auburn","23",[61,62,63],"98421","Tacoma","19",[65,66,67],"98424","Fife","15","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":70},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 131 establishments between them. 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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.",{"h2":118,"blocks":119},"The empty return",[120,122],{"t":10,"text":121},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 131 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Seattle-Tacoma sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 104,800 pallets. 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