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It shares a land border with North Carolina and Georgia.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,41],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":40},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","South Carolina","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","27,150","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","1.43 percent","27,150 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","527","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","52","27,150 ÷ 527, rounded","",{"t":10,"text":42},"South 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],"Lexington County has 5,481 warehousing jobs, 20.2 percent of South Carolina's 27,150, the most in the state.","York County has 3,009 warehousing jobs, 11.1 percent of South Carolina's 27,150, 2,472 fewer than Lexington County.","Greenville County has 2,870 warehousing jobs, 10.6 percent of South Carolina's 27,150, 2,611 fewer than Lexington County.","Motor vehicle manufacturing employs 15,531 people in South Carolina, 0.57 for every warehousing job.","Motor vehicle parts manufacturing employs 21,585 people in South Carolina, 0.80 for every warehousing job.","Chemical manufacturing employs 22,678 people in South Carolina, 0.84 for every warehousing job.","Plastics product manufacturing employs 13,499 people in South Carolina, 0.50 for every warehousing job.","Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing employs 6,517 people in South Carolina, 0.24 for every warehousing job.","South Carolina holds 1.43 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 70, spread over 527 establishments averaging 52 jobs each.","Charleston, SC accounts for 3,242 warehousing jobs, 11.9 percent of South Carolina's.","Greenville-Spartanburg accounts for 4,575 warehousing jobs, 16.9 percent of South Carolina's.","North Carolina has 54,551 warehousing jobs, 2.01 times the 27,150 in South Carolina.","Georgia has 84,730 warehousing jobs, 3.12 times the 27,150 in South Carolina.",{"h2":63,"blocks":64},"Who ships pallets here",[65,92,94],{"t":18,"head":66,"rows":70,"caption":91},[67,68,69],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[71,75,79,83,87],[72,73,74],"Motor vehicle manufacturing","15,531","0.57",[76,77,78],"Motor vehicle parts manufacturing","21,585","0.80",[80,81,82],"Chemical manufacturing","22,678","0.84",[84,85,86],"Plastics product manufacturing","13,499","0.50",[88,89,90],"Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing","6,517","0.24","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":93},"In South Carolina, motor vehicle manufacturing employs 15,531. Assembly plants run closed loops with fixed footprints, and 48 x 45 in matches heavy-duty auto parts bulk containers. It tends to lean on heavy-duty stackable pallets in a closed loop, usually in 48 x 45 in, and to ask about the dynamic load for the heaviest part and the pallet's fit with the bulk container.",{"t":10,"text":95},"Motor vehicle manufacturing is the trade where South Carolina is most concentrated, at 3.7 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":97,"blocks":98},"The empty return",[99,101],{"t":10,"text":100},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 527 warehouse establishments in South Carolina sent back 800 empty pallets in a week, that would be 421,600 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":102,"rows":107,"caption":119},[103,104,105,106],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[108,113,117],[109,110,111,112],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","1,260","335","781",[114,115,116,112],"PHS Plastic EXP 100 nestable","2,340","181",[118,110,111,112],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. 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