[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":328},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fsouth-dakota":3},{"tier":4,"sections":5,"faq":184,"sources":191,"related":210,"plate":251,"form":262,"scene":263,"path":264,"crumb":21,"ruler":265,"answer":266,"title":267,"h1":267,"description":266,"type":268,"schema":269,"reviewed":272,"crumbs":273,"jsonld":283},3,[6,14,47,65,91,115,151],{"h2":7,"blocks":8},"South Dakota, by road",[9,12],{"t":10,"text":11},"p","I-90 crosses it east to west and I-29 meets it at Sioux Falls, where most of the warehouses cluster. For a plastic pallet buyer in South Dakota, the geography sets the route and the route sets the empty return: I-90 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 Minnehaha (2,930), Pennington (33) and Union (25), which is 91.4 percent of the state's 3,269. It shares a land border with North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana.",{"h2":15,"blocks":16},"Warehousing in numbers",[17,45],{"t":18,"head":19,"rows":23,"caption":44},"table",[20,21,22],"Measure","South Dakota","How it is worked out",[24,28,32,36,40],[25,26,27],"Private warehousing and storage jobs","3,269","BLS QCEW, NAICS 493, 2025",[29,30,31],"Share of US jobs in the trade","0.17 percent","3,269 against about 1,901,976 nationwide",[33,34,35],"Establishments","42","BLS QCEW",[37,38,39],"Jobs per establishment","78","3,269 ÷ 42, rounded",[41,42,43],"Gross refrigerated space","23 million cu ft","0.6 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. South Dakota held 23 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],"Minnehaha County has 2,930 warehousing jobs, 89.6 percent of South Dakota's 3,269, the most in the state.","Pennington County has 33 warehousing jobs, 1.0 percent of South Dakota's 3,269, 2,897 fewer than Minnehaha County.","Union County has 25 warehousing jobs, 0.8 percent of South Dakota's 3,269, 2,905 fewer than Minnehaha County.","Meat and poultry processing employs 6,460 people in South Dakota, 1.98 for every warehousing job.","Dairy product manufacturing employs 1,510 people in South Dakota, 0.46 for every warehousing job.","Food manufacturing employs 10,866 people in South Dakota, 3.32 for every warehousing job.","South Dakota holds 0.17 percent of US warehousing jobs, about one in every 588, spread over 42 establishments averaging 78 jobs each.","Sioux Falls accounts for 2,930 warehousing jobs, 89.6 percent of South Dakota's.","North Dakota has 1,438 warehousing jobs, 0.44 times the 3,269 in South Dakota.","Minnesota has 17,921 warehousing jobs, 5.48 times the 3,269 in South Dakota.","Iowa has 19,824 warehousing jobs, 6.06 times the 3,269 in South Dakota.","Nebraska has 8,246 warehousing jobs, 2.52 times the 3,269 in South Dakota.",{"h2":66,"blocks":67},"Who ships pallets here",[68,87,89],{"t":18,"head":69,"rows":73,"caption":86},[70,71,72],"Industry","Private jobs, 2025","Jobs per warehousing job",[74,78,82],[75,76,77],"Meat and poultry processing","6,460","1.98",[79,80,81],"Dairy product manufacturing","1,510","0.46",[83,84,85],"Food manufacturing","10,866","3.32","Jobs: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; where counties are withheld the figure is partial.",{"t":10,"text":88},"In South Dakota, meat and poultry processing employs 6,460. 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":90},"Meat and poultry processing is the trade where South Dakota is most concentrated, at 4 times the national share of employment. A buyer in that trade will tend to ask the questions in the last column first.",{"h2":92,"blocks":93},"The empty return",[94,96],{"t":10,"text":95},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 42 warehouse establishments in South Dakota sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 21,000 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":97,"rows":102,"caption":114},[98,99,100,101],"Model","Per trailer","Trailers per week","Rackable trailers",[103,108,112],[104,105,106,107],"Rehrig Pacific Standard-duty nestable","1,260","17","39",[109,110,111,107],"Nelson Company Nestable, stackable, rackable","1,800","12",[113,105,106,107],"PHS Plastic EXP 116 nestable","Trailers = pallets ÷ per-trailer figure, rounded up. Maker-published figures for named 48 x 40 in models.",{"h2":116,"blocks":117},"Next door",[118,149],{"t":18,"head":119,"rows":123,"caption":148},[120,121,122],"Neighbouring state","Warehousing jobs","Share of US",[124,128,132,136,140,144],[125,126,127],"[North Dakota](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnorth-dakota)","1,438","0.08 percent",[129,130,131],"[Minnesota](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fminnesota)","17,921","0.94 percent",[133,134,135],"[Iowa](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fiowa)","19,824","1.04 percent",[137,138,139],"[Nebraska](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fnebraska)","8,246","0.43 percent",[141,142,143],"[Wyoming](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fwyoming)","1,974","0.10 percent",[145,146,147],"[Montana](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fstates\u002Fmontana)","428","0.02 percent","BLS QCEW 2025.",{"t":10,"text":150},"Metros in South Dakota with their own page: [Sioux Falls](\u002Fwhere-we-ship\u002Fmetros\u002Fsioux-falls).",{"h2":152,"blocks":153},"Words on this page",[154],{"t":155,"rows":156},"dl",[157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181],[158,159],"Edge rack","A rack arrangement where the pallet rests on the edges of the beams. 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