[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":301},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fflorida":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":163,"sources":170,"related":183,"plate":224,"form":235,"scene":236,"path":237,"crumb":21,"ruler":238,"answer":239,"title":240,"h1":240,"description":239,"type":241,"schema":242,"reviewed":245,"crumbs":246,"jsonld":256},3,[6,14,47,65,86,110,130],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Florida, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Freight comes in through Jacksonville, Miami, Port Everglades and Tampa and runs the peninsula on I-95, I-75 and the Turnpike. For a plastic pallet buyer in Florida, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-95, I-75, I-10 and I-4 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 Polk (19,862), Duval (15,372) and Miami-Dade (13,042), which is 45.8 percent of the state's 105,401. It shares a land border with Georgia and Alabama.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Florida","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","105,401","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","5.54 percent","105,401 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","1,249","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","84","105,401 ÷ 1,249, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","254 million cu ft","6.4 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. Florida held 254 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],"Polk County has 19,862 warehousing jobs, 18.8 percent of Florida's 105,401, the most in the state.","Duval County has 15,372 warehousing jobs, 14.6 percent of Florida's 105,401, 4,490 fewer than Polk County.","Miami-Dade County has 13,042 warehousing jobs, 12.4 percent of Florida's 105,401, 6,820 fewer than Polk County.","Warehousing and storage employs 105,401 people in Florida, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Grocery and related product wholesale employs 63,967 people in Florida, 0.61 for every warehousing job.","Florida holds 5.54 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 18, spread over 1,249 establishments averaging 84 jobs each.","Miami accounts for 22,104 warehousing jobs, 21.0 percent of Florida's.","Orlando accounts for 13,928 warehousing jobs, 13.2 percent of Florida's.","Jacksonville accounts for 15,384 warehousing jobs, 14.6 percent of Florida's.","Tampa accounts for 13,205 warehousing jobs, 12.5 percent of Florida's.","Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs, 0.80 times the 105,401 in Florida.","Alabama has 21,880 warehousing jobs, 0.21 times the 105,401 in Florida.",{"h2":66,"blocks":67},"Who ships pallets here",[68,82,84],{"t":18,"head":69,"rows":73,"caption":81},[70,71,72],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[74,77],[75,26,76],"Warehousing and storage","1.00",[78,79,80],"Grocery and related product wholesale","63,967","0.61","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":83},"In Florida, warehousing and storage employs 105,401. 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.",{"t":10,"text":85},"Warehousing and storage is the trade where Florida is most concentrated, at 0.8 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 1,249 warehouse establishments in Florida sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 624,500 pallets. 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