Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Sioux Falls

Sioux Falls, by road

I-29 and I-90 meet here, and the metro is the main distribution point for eastern South Dakota. The Sioux Falls area sits in South Dakota, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Food manufacturing is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.9 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Rock, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha and Turner county.

Counties

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 5 establishments between them. Sioux Falls (57104) leads with 5, 100.0 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Minnehaha County has 2,930 warehousing jobs, 100.0 percent of the 2,930 in the Sioux Falls area.
• Minnehaha County's 2,930 is 89.6 percent of all 3,269 warehousing jobs in South Dakota.
• ZIP 57104 in Sioux Falls ranks number 1 of the five, with 5 warehousing establishments, 100.0 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Food manufacturing employs 4,118 in the area (partial), 1.41 for every warehousing job.
• Warehousing and storage employs 2,930 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• South Dakota's meat and poultry processing employment, 6,460, is 2.20 times the Sioux Falls area's warehousing jobs.
• South Dakota's dairy product manufacturing employment, 1,510, is 0.52 times the Sioux Falls area's warehousing jobs.
• South Dakota's food manufacturing employment, 10,866, is 3.71 times the Sioux Falls area's warehousing jobs.

Who ships pallets here

In Sioux Falls, food manufacturing employs 4,118 (a partial count). Food plants want a pallet they can wash, which points at a smooth moulded deck, and they should ask the maker for resin and colourant paperwork rather than a blanket approval. 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.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 5 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Sioux Falls sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 6,000 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 1 metros of South Dakota that have a page here, Sioux Falls ranks number 1 by warehousing jobs.

Sioux Falls holds 89.6 percent of South Dakota's 3,269 private warehousing jobs. See the South Dakota page for the whole state.

Words on this page

Establishment

A single physical location where a business operates, such as one warehouse. A company with ten warehouses has ten establishments.

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.

Footprint

The length and width of a pallet deck. It is chosen to fit the container, the drum, the bag or the receiving rack.

One-way pallet

A light pallet built to carry cargo to a destination and stay there, often used in export.

Nest ratio

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

UL

Underwriters Laboratories, a safety testing body that publishes fire test standards, including one for storage pallets.

Stretch wrap

Elastic film wound around a loaded pallet to hold the load together.

Last mile

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

QCEW

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