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It shares a land border with Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","North Carolina","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","54,551","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","2.87 percent","54,551 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","590","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","92","54,551 ÷ 590, rounded","",{"t":10,"text":42},"North Carolina reports no refrigerated warehouse capacity separately in the USDA table we used, so the cold question depends on the individual customer.",{"h2":44,"blocks":45},"Reading the numbers",[46],{"t":47,"items":48},"ul",[49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61],"Mecklenburg County has 12,290 warehousing jobs, 22.5 percent of North Carolina's 54,551, the most in the state.","Wake County has 6,635 warehousing jobs, 12.2 percent of North Carolina's 54,551, 5,655 fewer than Mecklenburg County.","Guilford County has 4,160 warehousing jobs, 7.6 percent of North Carolina's 54,551, 8,130 fewer than Mecklenburg County.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 26,998 people in North Carolina, 0.49 for every warehousing job.","Meat and poultry processing employs 35,715 people in North Carolina, 0.65 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 47,758 people in North Carolina, 0.88 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 27,700 people in North Carolina, 0.51 for every warehousing job.","North Carolina holds 2.87 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 35, spread over 590 establishments averaging 92 jobs each.","Charlotte accounts for 18,437 warehousing jobs, 33.8 percent of North Carolina's.","Virginia has 51,123 warehousing jobs, 0.94 times the 54,551 in North Carolina.","Tennessee has 53,427 warehousing jobs, 0.98 times the 54,551 in North Carolina.","Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs, 1.55 times the 54,551 in North Carolina.","South Carolina has 27,150 warehousing jobs, 0.50 times the 54,551 in North Carolina.",{"h2":63,"blocks":64},"Who ships pallets here",[65,88,90],{"t":18,"head":66,"rows":70,"caption":87},[67,68,69],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[71,75,79,83],[72,73,74],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","26,998","0.49",[76,77,78],"Meat and poultry processing","35,715","0.65",[80,81,82],"Chemical manufacturing","47,758","0.88",[84,85,86],"Plastics product manufacturing","27,700","0.51","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":89},"In North Carolina, pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 26,998. Pharma plants care about clean surfaces and a paper trail. A used 48 x 40 model one maker lists is described as pharma and food safe but not approved for direct food contact, which is the kind of careful wording to expect. It tends to lean on clean, washable stackable or nestable with a paperwork trail, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documents and the maker's cleaning guidance.",{"t":10,"text":91},"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing is the trade where North Carolina 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":93,"blocks":94},"The empty return",[95,97],{"t":10,"text":96},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 590 warehouse establishments in North Carolina sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 472,000 pallets. 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