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It shares a land border with Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Delaware","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","12,495","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.66 percent","12,495 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","134","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","93","12,495 ÷ 134, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","25 million cu ft","0.6 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. Delaware held 25 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],"Sussex County has 80 warehousing jobs, 0.6 percent of Delaware's 12,495, the most in the state.","Meat and poultry processing employs 9,741 people in Delaware, 0.78 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 12,495 people in Delaware, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 11,157 people in Delaware, 0.89 for every warehousing job.","Delaware holds 0.66 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 152, spread over 134 establishments averaging 93 jobs each.","Maryland has 29,966 warehousing jobs, 2.40 times the 12,495 in Delaware.","Pennsylvania has 123,481 warehousing jobs, 9.88 times the 12,495 in Delaware.","New Jersey has 76,152 warehousing jobs, 6.09 times the 12,495 in Delaware.",{"h2":62,"blocks":63},"Who ships pallets here",[64,82,84],{"t":18,"head":65,"rows":69,"caption":81},[66,67,68],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[70,74,77],[71,72,73],"Meat and poultry processing","9,741","0.78",[75,26,76],"Warehousing and storage","1.00",[78,79,80],"Food manufacturing","11,157","0.89","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":83},"In Delaware, meat and poultry processing employs 9,741. Processing floors are wet, so open decks that drain and shed water matter, and so does a maker's cleaning guidance. It tends to lean on a washable nestable or stackable that drains, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about whether the deck drains and how the maker says to clean it.",{"t":10,"text":85},"Meat and poultry processing is the trade where Delaware is most concentrated, at 5.6 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":87,"blocks":88},"The empty return",[89,91],{"t":10,"text":90},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 134 warehouse establishments in Delaware sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 107,200 pallets. 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