Plastic pallet recycling in Jacksonville: ZIPs, industries and the loads they leave behind

Jacksonville in the numbers

The Jacksonville metro counts 15,384 private jobs in warehousing and storage for 2025. That is 0.81% of the US industry and 2.3% of private jobs in the metro, 28th of 60 here. Only counties with disclosed figures are counted, so the true number is a little higher.

It spans 5 counties: Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns. Warehousing is 2.3% of private jobs there, and the metro holds 14.6% of Florida's 105,401 warehousing jobs. 5 ZIP codes stand out for sites, led by 32218 (Jacksonville, 23).

County by county

The largest warehousing counties in the metro: Duval (15,372).

• Duval County15,372 jobs, 99.9% of the metro's disclosed total.

The industries behind the loads

2 industries are named for the Jacksonville metro. The most concentrated is warehousing and storage, at 1.6 times the national share of employment.

• Warehousing and storage15,384 jobs in 2025, 0.81% of the US total. General-purpose 48 x 40 pallets, nestables for empty storage and rackables on beams. Warehouses hold the widest mix of styles of any industry here, so mixed resin and mixed colour piles are normal. In a pile from here, photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side.
• Grocery and related product wholesale3,198 jobs in 2025, 0.39% of the US total. 48 x 40 pallets of many styles and marks, nestables for returns and the rented pool pallets that arrive with suppliers’ freight. In a pile from here, photograph every mark, logo and RFID bump.

On the freight lanes: I-95 and I-10

Jacksonville sits on I-95, which runs from I-95 is the main north-south Interstate on the East Coast, running from Miami, Florida, to the Houlton-Woodstock border crossing between Maine and New Brunswick. The metros we track on it hold 127,866 private warehousing jobs, 6.7% of the US total (disclosed counties only). Also on it: Savannah (6,384), Northern New Jersey (39,367), Philadelphia (38,250), Miami (22,104) and Baltimore (6,377).

Jacksonville sits on I-10, which runs from I-10 is the southernmost transcontinental Interstate, 2,460 miles long, the fourth-longest in the country. The metros we track on it hold 255,943 private warehousing jobs, 13.5% of the US total (disclosed counties only). Also on it: Los Angeles (27,225), Inland Empire (118,368), Houston (33,785), San Antonio (16,751), Phoenix (42,340) and New Orleans (2,090).

Metros of a similar size

By warehousing jobs the nearest metros are Denver (15,858), Louisville/Jefferson County (14,533) and San Antonio (16,751).

Elsewhere in Florida

Miami (22,104 jobs, 1.44 times Jacksonville, busiest ZIP 33178), Orlando (13,928 jobs, 0.91 times Jacksonville, busiest ZIP 32824) and Tampa (13,205 jobs, 0.86 times Jacksonville, busiest ZIP 33619) are the other metros we cover in Florida, which has 105,401 warehousing jobs in all.

What the size of the market means

A mid-sized warehouse market. Loads around Jacksonville tend to come from a handful of big sites and a long tail of small ones, and a full trailer from one site is a different job from three part-loads from three. Say which yours is.

What a Jacksonville load looks like

Warehousing and storage comes first here, at 15,384 jobs. Photograph the yard stacks, from the dock side and, for grocery and related product wholesale, every mark, logo and RFID bump. Say the ZIP, the count and the footprint. Marks are checked before anything is ground.