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It shares a land border with Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Georgia","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","84,730","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","4.45 percent","84,730 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","1,150","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","74","84,730 ÷ 1,150, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","304 million cu ft","7.6 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. Georgia held 304 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],"Fulton County has 18,317 warehousing jobs, 21.6 percent of Georgia's 84,730, the most in the state.","Henry County has 7,904 warehousing jobs, 9.3 percent of Georgia's 84,730, 10,413 fewer than Fulton County.","Cobb County has 6,201 warehousing jobs, 7.3 percent of Georgia's 84,730, 12,116 fewer than Fulton County.","Meat and poultry processing employs 42,030 people in Georgia, 0.50 for every warehousing job.","Refrigerated warehousing employs 4,453 people in Georgia, 0.05 for every warehousing job.","Warehousing and storage employs 84,730 people in Georgia, 1.00 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 74,165 people in Georgia, 0.88 for every warehousing job.","Georgia holds 4.45 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 22, spread over 1,150 establishments averaging 74 jobs each.","Atlanta accounts for 49,050 warehousing jobs, 57.9 percent of Georgia's.","Savannah accounts for 6,384 warehousing jobs, 7.5 percent of Georgia's.","Gainesville, GA accounts for 656 warehousing jobs, 0.8 percent of Georgia's.","Florida has 105,401 warehousing jobs, 1.24 times the 84,730 in Georgia.","Alabama has 21,880 warehousing jobs, 0.26 times the 84,730 in Georgia.","Tennessee has 53,427 warehousing jobs, 0.63 times the 84,730 in Georgia.","North Carolina has 54,551 warehousing jobs, 0.64 times the 84,730 in Georgia.",{"h2":69,"blocks":70},"Who ships pallets here",[71,93,95],{"t":18,"head":72,"rows":76,"caption":92},[73,74,75],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[77,81,85,88],[78,79,80],"Meat and poultry processing","42,030","0.50",[82,83,84],"Refrigerated warehousing","4,453","0.05",[86,26,87],"Warehousing and storage","1.00",[89,90,91],"Food manufacturing","74,165","0.88","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":94},"In Georgia, meat and poultry processing employs 42,030. These plants ask about drainage and cleaning first, then about static load for the product stacked on the pallet. 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":96},"Meat and poultry processing is the trade where Georgia is most concentrated, at 2.4 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":98,"blocks":99},"The empty return",[100,102],{"t":10,"text":101},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 1,150 warehouse establishments in Georgia sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 575,000 pallets. 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