[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":336},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Findiana":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":186,"sources":193,"related":218,"plate":259,"form":270,"scene":271,"path":272,"crumb":21,"ruler":273,"answer":274,"title":275,"h1":275,"description":274,"type":276,"schema":277,"reviewed":280,"crumbs":281,"jsonld":291},2,[6,14,47,67,101,125,153],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Indiana, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Indiana is a place where four Interstates cross at Indianapolis, which is why it calls itself the Crossroads of America. Pallets here follow I-65, I-69, I-70, I-74 and I-80, and the distance they travel empty is the cost a nestable cuts.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Boone (12,552), Hendricks (11,774) and Marion (7,943), which is 47.8 percent of the state's 67,506. It shares a land border with Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Indiana","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","67,506","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","3.55 percent","67,506 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","539","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","125","67,506 ÷ 539, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","98 million cu ft","2.5 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. Indiana held 98 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],"Boone County has 12,552 warehousing jobs, 18.6 percent of Indiana's 67,506, the most in the state.","Hendricks County has 11,774 warehousing jobs, 17.4 percent of Indiana's 67,506, 778 fewer than Boone County.","Marion County has 7,943 warehousing jobs, 11.8 percent of Indiana's 67,506, 4,609 fewer than Boone County.","Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 52,146 people in Indiana, 0.77 for every warehousing job.","Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 21,069 people in Indiana, 0.31 for every warehousing job.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 23,709 people in Indiana, 0.35 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 33,122 people in Indiana, 0.49 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 38,178 people in Indiana, 0.57 for every warehousing job.","Indiana holds 3.55 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 28, spread over 539 establishments averaging 125 jobs each.","Indianapolis accounts for 41,067 warehousing jobs, 60.8 percent of Indiana's.","Michigan has 40,753 warehousing jobs, 0.60 times the 67,506 in Indiana.","Ohio has 98,354 warehousing jobs, 1.46 times the 67,506 in Indiana.","Kentucky has 38,281 warehousing jobs, 0.57 times the 67,506 in Indiana.","Illinois has 80,071 warehousing jobs, 1.19 times the 67,506 in Indiana.",{"h2":68,"blocks":69},"Who ships pallets here",[70,97,99],{"t":18,"head":71,"rows":75,"caption":96},[72,73,74],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[76,80,84,88,92],[77,78,79],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","52,146","0.77",[81,82,83],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","21,069","0.31",[85,86,87],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","23,709","0.35",[89,90,91],"Plastics product manufacturing","33,122","0.49",[93,94,95],"Chemical manufacturing","38,178","0.57","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":98},"In Indiana, motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 52,146. Suppliers weigh the dynamic rating against the way parts move, and ask whether the pallet nests when it comes back empty. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets, nestable on the empty return, usually in 48 x 45 in or 48 x 40 in, and to ask about the dynamic load, since parts travel on forklifts and conveyors all day.",{"t":10,"text":100},"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing is the trade where Indiana is most concentrated, at 4.8 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":102,"blocks":103},"The empty return",[104,106],{"t":10,"text":105},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 539 warehouse establishments in Indiana sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 431,200 pallets. 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