[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":315},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fst-louis":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":170,"sources":177,"related":190,"plate":231,"form":248,"scene":249,"path":250,"crumb":251,"ruler":252,"answer":253,"title":254,"h1":254,"description":253,"type":255,"schema":256,"reviewed":259,"crumbs":260,"jsonld":270},3,[6,14,29,61,85,105,128,137],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"St. Louis, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Geography first: i-44, I-55, I-64 and I-70 meet at the Mississippi River, with warehouses on both the Missouri and Illinois banks. That is the setting for a pallet buyer in the St. Louis area of Missouri.",{"t":10,"text":13},"Chemical manufacturing is where this area is most concentrated, at 1.6 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin and Madison... county.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Counties",[17],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":28},"table",[20,21,22],"County","Warehousing jobs","Share of the metro",[24],[25,26,27],"Madison","7,612","45.1 percent","BLS QCEW 2025, counties with disclosed data.",{"h2":30,"blocks":31},"ZIP codes with the most warehouses",[32,59],{"t":18,"head":33,"rows":37,"caption":58},[34,35,36],"ZIP","Town","Establishments",[38,42,46,50,54],[39,40,41],"63042","Hazelwood","32",[43,44,45],"62025","Edwardsville","17",[47,48,49],"62040","Granite City","10",[51,52,53],"63044","Bridgeton","9",[55,56,57],"63147","Saint Louis","8","Census Bureau, ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023.",{"t":10,"text":60},"The five largest ZIP codes hold 76 establishments between them. Hazelwood (63042) leads with 32, 42.1 percent of the five.",{"h2":62,"blocks":63},"Reading the numbers",[64],{"t":65,"items":66},"ul",[67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84],"Madison County has 7,612 warehousing jobs, 45.1 percent of the 16,879 in the St. Louis area.","Edwardsville (62025) has 15 fewer warehousing establishments than Hazelwood (63042), 17 against 32.","Granite City (62040) has 22 fewer warehousing establishments than Hazelwood (63042), 10 against 32.","Bridgeton (63044) has 23 fewer warehousing establishments than Hazelwood (63042), 9 against 32.","Saint Louis (63147) has 24 fewer warehousing establishments than Hazelwood (63042), 8 against 32.","Madison County's 7,612 is 28.5 percent of all 26,726 warehousing jobs in Missouri.","ZIP 63042 in Hazelwood ranks number 1 of the five, with 32 warehousing establishments, 42.1 percent of their combined total and 4.00 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 62025 in Edwardsville ranks number 2 of the five, with 17 warehousing establishments, 22.4 percent of their combined total and 2.13 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 62040 in Granite City ranks number 3 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 13.2 percent of their combined total and 1.25 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 63044 in Bridgeton ranks number 4 of the five, with 9 warehousing establishments, 11.8 percent of their combined total and 1.13 times the smallest of them.","ZIP 63147 in Saint Louis ranks number 5 of the five, with 8 warehousing establishments, 10.5 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.","Chemical manufacturing employs 12,524 in the area (partial), 0.74 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 16,879 in the area (partial), 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Missouri's motor vehicle manufacturing employment, 13,274, is 0.79 times the St. Louis area's warehousing jobs.","Missouri's dairy product manufacturing employment, 6,107, is 0.36 times the St. Louis area's warehousing jobs.","Missouri's meat and poultry processing employment, 16,925, is 1.00 times the St. Louis area's warehousing jobs.","Missouri's fruit and vegetable preserving employment, 4,877, is 0.29 times the St. Louis area's warehousing jobs.","Kansas City, also in Missouri, has 20,676 warehousing jobs, 1.22 times St. Louis's.",{"h2":86,"blocks":87},"Who ships pallets here",[88,103],{"t":18,"head":89,"rows":93,"caption":102},[90,91,92],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[94,98],[95,96,97],"Chemical manufacturing","12,524 (partial)","0.74",[99,100,101],"Warehousing and storage","16,879 (partial)","1.00","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":104},"In St. Louis, chemical manufacturing employs 12,524 (a partial count). Chemical shippers ask about footprint first because the container decides it, then about static load and fire listing for the storage area. It tends to lean on stackable heavy-duty pallets sized to the drum or bag, usually in 45 x 45 in (CP9) or 48 x 48 in for drums, and to ask about the static load with the container on it, and any fire listing.",{"h2":106,"blocks":107},"The empty return",[108,110],{"t":10,"text":109},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 76 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in St. Louis sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 38,000 pallets. 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