Illinois
Will County
| State | Illinois |
|---|---|
| Land area | 849 sq mi (map estimate) |
| Town pages | 22 |
| Industry data | BLS QCEW 2024 |
The BLS counted 10 private establishments making wood pallets and containers in Will County in 2024, employing an average of 302 people, alongside 128 warehousing and storage establishments with 24,254 jobs. CMAP's 2023 inventory counts 25,516 acres of industrial land, 4.7% of the county. 3 intermodal rail ramps sit inside the county.
10
Pallet and wood container plants (NAICS 321920, 2024) [1]
128
Warehousing establishments, 24,254 jobs [1]
726
Manufacturing establishments, 23,887 jobs [1]
25,516
Industrial acres, 4.7% of land (CMAP 2023) [2]
3
Intermodal rail ramps [3]
Industries that ship on pallets
| Industry (NAICS) | Establishments | Jobs | Share of private jobs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wood container and pallet manufacturing 321920 | 10 | 302 | 0.1% |
| Food manufacturing 311 | 80 | 4,978 | 2.2% |
| Beverage and tobacco product manufacturing 312 | 20 | 632 | 0.3% |
| Paper manufacturing 322 | 20 | 795 | 0.3% |
| Printing and related support activities 323 | 56 | 437 | 0.2% |
| Chemical manufacturing 325 | 44 | 2,482 | 1.1% |
| Plastics and rubber products manufacturing 326 | 38 | 2,773 | 1.2% |
| Primary metal manufacturing 331 | 11 | 183 | 0.1% |
| Fabricated metal product manufacturing 332 | 110 | 1,985 | 0.9% |
| Machinery manufacturing 333 | 76 | 2,291 | 1% |
| Warehousing and storage 4931 | 128 | 24,254 | 10.5% |
| Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers 4244 | 55 | 2,043 | 0.9% |
| General freight trucking 4841 | 1078 | 5,945 | 2.6% |
"Not disclosed" means the BLS withheld the figure to protect individual employers.
Will County price row
Price sheet coming. The Will County row of the Chicagoland pallet price sheet will appear here once the first monthly sheet is published. Until then this page shows no prices. What the sheet will show.
Towns
- Bolingbrook
- Channahon
- Crest Hill
- Crete
- Elwood
- Frankfort
- Homer Glen
- Joliet
- Lockport
- Manhattan
- Minooka
- Mokena
- Monee
- New Lenox
- Peotone
- Plainfield
- Rockdale
- Romeoville
- Shorewood
- Steger
- University Park
- Wilmington
Corridors
- I-55 Bolingbrook to Romeoville
- I-80 Joliet to Minooka
- Elwood intermodal area
- Chicago Heights to University Park
Rail ramps
- Joliet (Global IV)
- Logistics Park Chicago (LPC)
- Joliet
Sources
- BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. Private ownership. Establishment counts and average employment by county and NAICS industry. Employment the BLS withholds for confidentiality is shown as not disclosed.
- CMAP Community Data Snapshots 2026. Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Population from the 2020 Census (P.L. 94-171); jobs located in the place from LEHD 2023 (primary jobs); private-sector jobs from IDES Where Workers Work 2025; land use from the CMAP 2023 Land Use Inventory; industrial equalized assessed value from the Illinois Department of Revenue, 2024.
- BTS National Transportation Atlas Database: Intermodal Freight Facilities, Rail TOFC/COFC. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, compiled 2018 and updated July 2022. Distances are straight-line miles from the place's internal point to the facility point.
- Census Bureau cartographic boundary files, 2023. 1:500,000 county and place boundaries, simplified for the maps. Bordering towns are those whose boundaries come within about 0.1 mile of each other.
- Natural Earth 1:10m lakes. Lake Michigan outline for the maps. Public domain.
Last reviewed 2026-10-27. Not legal advice and not a price quote. See how the figures are built.