[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":312},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fcalifornia":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":171,"sources":178,"related":194,"plate":235,"form":246,"scene":247,"path":248,"crumb":21,"ruler":249,"answer":250,"title":251,"h1":251,"description":250,"type":252,"schema":253,"reviewed":256,"crumbs":257,"jsonld":267},2,[6,14,47,68,90,114,138],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"California, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","The ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland set the pace, and I-5 runs the length of the state from Mexico to Oregon. For a plastic pallet buyer in California, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80 carry most of what leaves, and every empty pallet that comes back has to ride the same road.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are San Bernardino (67,058), Riverside (51,310) and San Joaquin (28,518), which is 62.0 percent of the state's 236,923. It shares a land border with Oregon, Nevada and Arizona.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","California","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","236,923","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","12.46 percent","236,923 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","2,776","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","85","236,923 ÷ 2,776, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","400 million cu ft","10.0 percent of the US 3.99 billion","",{"t":10,"text":46},"Refrigerated space matters because a freezer is hard on plastic; the [cold guide](\u002Fguides\u002Fplastic-pallets-in-the-cold) says what to ask for. California held 400 million cubic feet of gross refrigerated warehouse capacity on October 1, 2025.",{"h2":48,"blocks":49},"Reading the numbers",[50],{"t":51,"items":52},"ul",[53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67],"San Bernardino County has 67,058 warehousing jobs, 28.3 percent of California's 236,923, the most in the state.","Riverside County has 51,310 warehousing jobs, 21.7 percent of California's 236,923, 15,748 fewer than San Bernardino County.","San Joaquin County has 28,518 warehousing jobs, 12.0 percent of California's 236,923, 38,540 fewer than San Bernardino County.","Beverage manufacturing employs 63,604 people in California, 0.27 for every warehousing job.","Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 27,518 people in California, 0.12 for every warehousing job.","California holds 12.46 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 8, spread over 2,776 establishments averaging 85 jobs each.","Los Angeles accounts for 27,225 warehousing jobs, 11.5 percent of California's.","Inland Empire accounts for 118,368 warehousing jobs, 50.0 percent of California's.","Fresno accounts for 5,006 warehousing jobs, 2.1 percent of California's.","Stockton accounts for 28,518 warehousing jobs, 12.0 percent of California's.","San Francisco-Oakland accounts for 9,473 warehousing jobs, 4.0 percent of California's.","Salinas accounts for 298 warehousing jobs, 0.1 percent of California's.","Oregon has 16,750 warehousing jobs, 0.07 times the 236,923 in California.","Nevada has 42,113 warehousing jobs, 0.18 times the 236,923 in California.","Arizona has 52,054 warehousing jobs, 0.22 times the 236,923 in California.",{"h2":69,"blocks":70},"Who ships pallets here",[71,86,88],{"t":18,"head":72,"rows":76,"caption":85},[73,74,75],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[77,81],[78,79,80],"Beverage manufacturing","63,604","0.27",[82,83,84],"Fruit and vegetable preserving","27,518","0.12","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":87},"In California, beverage manufacturing employs 63,604. Beverage plants run square-ish footprints for cans and glass, and ask whether the model takes a full stack without bowing. It tends to lean on stackable beverage pallets, with 56 x 44 in where the line is set up for it, usually in 56 x 44 in beverage, or 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the static load of the bottom pallet in a full stack.",{"t":10,"text":89},"Beverage manufacturing is the trade where California is most concentrated, at 1.7 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":91,"blocks":92},"The empty return",[93,95],{"t":10,"text":94},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 2,776 warehouse establishments in California sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 1,388,000 pallets. 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