[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":304},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnorth-dakota":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":163,"sources":170,"related":186,"plate":227,"form":238,"scene":239,"path":240,"crumb":21,"ruler":241,"answer":242,"title":243,"h1":243,"description":242,"type":244,"schema":245,"reviewed":248,"crumbs":249,"jsonld":259},3,[6,14,47,62,84,108,130],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"North Dakota, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","I-94 crosses it east to west and I-29 runs down the Red River side, with oil-field and farm freight sharing the road. For a plastic pallet buyer in North Dakota, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-94 and I-29 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 Cass (1,186), Grand Forks (73) and Traill (28), which is 89.5 percent of the state's 1,438. It shares a land border with Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","North Dakota","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","1,438","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.08 percent","1,438 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","61","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","24","1,438 ÷ 61, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","10 million cu ft","0.3 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. North Dakota held 10 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],"Cass County has 1,186 warehousing jobs, 82.5 percent of North Dakota's 1,438, the most in the state.","Grand Forks County has 73 warehousing jobs, 5.1 percent of North Dakota's 1,438, 1,113 fewer than Cass County.","Traill County has 28 warehousing jobs, 1.9 percent of North Dakota's 1,438, 1,158 fewer than Cass County.","Food manufacturing employs 5,564 people in North Dakota, 3.87 for every warehousing job.","Grocery and related product wholesale employs 1,946 people in North Dakota, 1.35 for every warehousing job.","North Dakota holds 0.08 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 1250, spread over 61 establishments averaging 24 jobs each.","Minnesota has 17,921 warehousing jobs, 12.46 times the 1,438 in North Dakota.","South Dakota has 3,269 warehousing jobs, 2.27 times the 1,438 in North Dakota.","Montana has 428 warehousing jobs, 0.30 times the 1,438 in North Dakota.",{"h2":63,"blocks":64},"Who ships pallets here",[65,80,82],{"t":18,"head":66,"rows":70,"caption":79},[67,68,69],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[71,75],[72,73,74],"Food manufacturing","5,564","3.87",[76,77,78],"Grocery and related product wholesale","1,946","1.35","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":81},"In North Dakota, food manufacturing employs 5,564. The buyer here is usually a plant or sanitation manager, and the questions are cleaning, deck type and what paperwork comes with the model. It tends to lean on nestable or stackable that washes down, open or closed deck by product, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about resin and colourant documentation, since FDA does not approve pallet models.",{"t":10,"text":83},"Food manufacturing is the trade where North Dakota is most concentrated, at 1.2 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":85,"blocks":86},"The empty return",[87,89],{"t":10,"text":88},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 61 warehouse establishments in North Dakota sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 30,500 pallets. 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