[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":336},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fminnesota":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},3,[6,14,47,67,101,125,153],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"Minnesota, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","Minnesota is a place where the Twin Cities sit where I-35 and I-94 cross, and cold winters shape which resin a returnable pallet needs. Pallets here follow I-35, I-94 and I-90, and the distance they travel empty is the cost a nestable cuts.",{"t":10,"text":13},"The counties with the most warehousing jobs are Hennepin (3,616), Anoka (1,119) and Washington (779), which is 30.8 percent of the state's 17,921. It shares a land border with Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota and North Dakota.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","Minnesota","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","17,921","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.94 percent","17,921 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","312","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","57","17,921 ÷ 312, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","105 million cu ft","2.6 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. Minnesota held 105 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],"Hennepin County has 3,616 warehousing jobs, 20.2 percent of Minnesota's 17,921, the most in the state.","Anoka County has 1,119 warehousing jobs, 6.2 percent of Minnesota's 17,921, 2,497 fewer than Hennepin County.","Washington County has 779 warehousing jobs, 4.3 percent of Minnesota's 17,921, 2,837 fewer than Hennepin County.","Meat and poultry processing employs 17,525 people in Minnesota, 0.98 for every warehousing job.","Dairy product manufacturing employs 5,085 people in Minnesota, 0.28 for every warehousing job.","Fruit and vegetable preserving employs 4,721 people in Minnesota, 0.26 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 47,829 people in Minnesota, 2.67 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 14,511 people in Minnesota, 0.81 for every warehousing job.","Minnesota holds 0.94 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 106, spread over 312 establishments averaging 57 jobs each.","Minneapolis-St. Paul accounts for 6,599 warehousing jobs, 36.8 percent of Minnesota's.","Wisconsin has 33,054 warehousing jobs, 1.84 times the 17,921 in Minnesota.","Iowa has 19,824 warehousing jobs, 1.11 times the 17,921 in Minnesota.","South Dakota has 3,269 warehousing jobs, 0.18 times the 17,921 in Minnesota.","North Dakota has 1,438 warehousing jobs, 0.08 times the 17,921 in Minnesota.",{"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],"Meat and poultry processing","17,525","0.98",[81,82,83],"Dairy product manufacturing","5,085","0.28",[85,86,87],"Fruit and vegetable preserving","4,721","0.26",[89,90,91],"Food manufacturing","47,829","2.67",[93,94,95],"Plastics product manufacturing","14,511","0.81","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":98},"In Minnesota, meat and poultry processing employs 17,525. 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":100},"Meat and poultry processing is the trade where Minnesota is most concentrated, at 1.6 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 312 warehouse establishments in Minnesota sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 249,600 pallets. The table counts the 53 ft trailers that takes at three makers' published nestable figures, beside the 540 per trailer of a rackable.",{"t":18,"head":107,"rows":112,"caption":124},[108,109,110,111],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[113,118,122],[114,115,116,117],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","199","463",[119,120,121,117],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","107",[123,115,116,117],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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