Nestable and Stackable Pallets: Stockton

Stockton, by road

The San Joaquin Valley meets the Bay Area here, at the Port of Stockton and the junction of I-5 and State Route 99. The Stockton area sits in California, and the freight pattern follows the roads above.

Warehousing and storage is where this area is most concentrated, at 8.2 times the national share of employment. The area reaches into San Joaquin county.

ZIP codes with the most warehouses

The five largest ZIP codes hold 85 establishments between them. Stockton (95206) leads with 24, 28.2 percent of the five.

Reading the numbers

• Lathrop (95330) has 5 fewer warehousing establishments than Stockton (95206), 19 against 24.
• Tracy (95304) has 6 fewer warehousing establishments than Stockton (95206), 18 against 24.
• Stockton (95215) has 10 fewer warehousing establishments than Stockton (95206), 14 against 24.
• Tracy (95377) has 14 fewer warehousing establishments than Stockton (95206), 10 against 24.
• ZIP 95206 in Stockton ranks number 1 of the five, with 24 warehousing establishments, 28.2 percent of their combined total and 2.40 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 95330 in Lathrop ranks number 2 of the five, with 19 warehousing establishments, 22.4 percent of their combined total and 1.90 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 95304 in Tracy ranks number 3 of the five, with 18 warehousing establishments, 21.2 percent of their combined total and 1.80 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 95215 in Stockton ranks number 4 of the five, with 14 warehousing establishments, 16.5 percent of their combined total and 1.40 times the smallest of them.
• ZIP 95377 in Tracy ranks number 5 of the five, with 10 warehousing establishments, 11.8 percent of their combined total and 1.00 times the smallest of them.
• Warehousing and storage employs 28,518 in the area, 1.00 for every warehousing job.
• Beverage manufacturing employs 3,063 in the area, 0.11 for every warehousing job.
• Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 1,000 in the area, 0.04 for every warehousing job.
• Grocery and related product wholesale employs 3,356 in the area, 0.12 for every warehousing job.
• Food manufacturing employs 6,026 in the area, 0.21 for every warehousing job.
• California's beverage manufacturing employment, 63,604, is 2.23 times the Stockton area's warehousing jobs.
• California's fruit and vegetable preserving employment, 27,518, is 0.96 times the Stockton area's warehousing jobs.
• Los Angeles, also in California, has 27,225 warehousing jobs, 0.95 times Stockton's.
• Inland Empire, also in California, has 118,368 warehousing jobs, 4.15 times Stockton's.
• Fresno, also in California, has 5,006 warehousing jobs, 0.18 times Stockton's.

Who ships pallets here

In Stockton-Lodi, warehousing and storage employs 28,518. 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.

The empty return

An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 85 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Stockton sent back 1,200 empty pallets in a week, that would be 102,000 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 6 metros of California that have a page here, Stockton ranks number 2 by warehousing jobs.

Stockton holds 12.0 percent of California's 236,923 private warehousing jobs. See the California page for the whole state.

Other metros in California with their own page: Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Fresno, San Francisco-Oakland and Salinas.

Interstates serving the area: I-5.

Words on this page

Cruciform base

A base shaped like a plus sign under the pallet, which gives a stable footprint and slides well on conveyors.

Creep

Slow, permanent bending of plastic under a steady load. A pallet can hold a load for an hour and bow under it after a month.

Racking load

The weight a pallet holds when it rests on two rack beams with an open gap between them. It is usually the lowest rating and only exists for pallets built for racks.

3PL

A third-party logistics company that stores and ships goods for other businesses.

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.

Nest ratio

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

RFID tag

A small radio tag moulded into or attached to a pallet so readers can track it through a plant or a loop.

ZIP Code Business Patterns

A Census Bureau series that counts establishments by ZIP code and industry.

4-way entry

A pallet that forks or a pallet jack can enter from all four sides.