Logistics and Distribution Jobs in Jacksonville, Florida

Warehousing and storage is the largest freight job group in Duval County, the Jacksonville area, with 15,372 private jobs in 2025 (BLS QCEW 2025, Duval County).

Duval County is a wider area than the city: the 1968 consolidation left four municipalities outside the City of Jacksonville, Atlantic Beach, Baldwin, Jacksonville Beach and Neptune Beach, and the QCEW figures here are for county 12031 as a whole (City of Jacksonville ACFR). Behind warehousing come transportation support activities at 9,334, truck transportation at 8,483 and couriers and messengers at 7,617 (BLS QCEW 2025, Duval County).

Sources for the table: QCEW 2019 and QCEW 2025, private ownership, Duval County. Wholesale trade, code 42 in the QCEW file, is the largest group in the table, with 1,425 establishments in 2025 and a loss of 321 jobs, or 1.5 percent, from 2024. Truck transportation employment in 2025 was almost unchanged from 2019 and fell 289 jobs, or 3.3 percent, from 2024, while transportation support activities added 518, or 5.9 percent, in 2025 (QCEW 2025). The Port of Jacksonville guide covers the port terminals themselves.

No: Duval County warehousing and storage employment in March 2026 was 13,245, which is 1,664 jobs, or 11.2 percent, below March 2025 (BLS QCEW first quarter 2026).

The big jump came earlier. The 2019 QCEW file shows Duval County warehousing at 11,818 jobs, up 7,831, or 196.4 percent, in a single year (BLS QCEW 2019). By 2025 the annual average had climbed to 15,372, a gain of 167, or 1.1 percent, over 2024 (BLS QCEW 2025). The first quarter of 2026 then reverses that direction.

Other freight groups also shrank in the year to March 2026: transportation support activities lost 758 jobs, or 7.9 percent, couriers and messengers lost 565, or 7.4 percent, and trucking lost 277, or 3.3 percent (BLS QCEW). The wider Trade, Transportation and Utilities supersector for the Jacksonville metro area was close to flat, at 170,000 jobs in August 2026, a preliminary figure 0.1 percent above a year earlier (BLS Jacksonville economy at a glance).

General warehousing and storage (NAICS 49311) accounts for 14,679 of the 15,372 Duval County warehouse jobs in 2025, at 84 establishments and an average pay of $50,679 (BLS QCEW 2025, Duval County).

In Jacksonville's courier business, couriers and express delivery services (4921) employed 6,686 at 51 establishments, paying $54,013, after losing 307 jobs, or 4.4 percent, from 2024 (QCEW 2025). Trucking splits into general freight (4841), with 5,610 jobs at 528 establishments and pay of $71,681, and specialized freight (4842), with 2,873 jobs paying $73,298.

Inside the Duval County support activities group, freight transportation arrangement (4885) employed 2,355 at 117 establishments with pay of $73,461, up 95 jobs, and support activities for air transportation (4881) employed 2,424 at an average of $72,371 (QCEW 2025).

Of the five Duval County groups on this page, transportation support activities had the highest employment location quotient in March 2026, 3.03 (BLS QCEW first quarter 2026).

The other Duval County location quotients for March 2026 were 1.99 for warehousing and storage, 1.78 for couriers and messengers and 1.61 for truck transportation, while wholesale trade came in at 0.95 (BLS QCEW). In Duval County, each of the four freight groups had a higher quotient than wholesale trade.

The City of Jacksonville Office of Economic Development says 10 percent of employment in Jacksonville is in transportation and warehousing and that those sectors represent 9 percent of business establishments, above state and national figures (City of Jacksonville Office of Economic Development). The city page gives no year for those percentages, so the dated QCEW figures above are the ones to compare over time.

Duval County warehousing jobs paid an average of $50,925 in 2025 and couriers $52,575, both well below the county's all-private average of $75,204, while trucking paid $72,229 and transportation support $73,742 (BLS QCEW 2025).

Against the statewide averages, Duval County trucking pays more and warehousing pays less. Statewide, Florida truck transportation paid an average of $65,241 across 65,035 jobs in 2025, and Florida warehousing paid $54,132 across 105,401 jobs (BLS QCEW 2025, Florida).

Pay has climbed since 2019, when Duval County warehousing averaged $35,594 and trucking $55,444 (BLS QCEW 2019). In the first quarter of 2026 average weekly wages were $891 in Duval County warehousing, $1,031 for couriers, $1,423 in trucking and $1,517 in transportation support (BLS QCEW).

Amazon ranks seventh on the City of Jacksonville's 2024 principal employer list, with 8,000 employees, or 1.42 percent of city employment (City of Jacksonville ACFR).

Only Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Baptist Health, Duval County Public Schools, Naval Station Mayport, UF Health Jacksonville and Mayo Clinic rank above Amazon on that list, with Naval Air Station Jacksonville first at 14,390 (ACFR). Amazon was not on the 2015 column of the same schedule, which instead listed United Parcel Service ninth with 4,100 employees; UPS does not appear in the 2024 top eleven (ACFR). For these counts the employer table cites the Jax Chamber's JaxUSA Partnership, with the city budget document used for the city's own head count and BLS also named as a source. Both companies appear on the county-wide principal property taxpayer schedule: Amazon.com Services LLC ranks third with a taxable valuation of $240,343,187, listed as technology rather than logistics, and United Parcel Service ranks fourth at $194,275,393, listed as package delivery. The same schedule also lists Stone Mountain Industrial Inc, type of business distribution center, with a 2015 valuation and no 2024 ranking (ACFR).

The City of Jacksonville pitches logistics firms on interstates, railroads, an international airport and developable sites (City of Jacksonville Office of Economic Development).

Its targeted industries page lists I-95, I-75 and I-10, the CSX, Norfolk Southern and Florida East Coast railroads, and 45 million people within an eight-hour drive (City of Jacksonville Office of Economic Development).

For sites, the city points to Cecil Commerce Center, which it says has more than 8,300 developable acres with industrial entitlements and direct interstate access, and to industrial parks in North and Northwest Jacksonville near I-95 and I-10; it also lists Foreign Trade Zone #64 (City of Jacksonville). The city's fiscal 2024 report records more than $2 million received for the sale of Parcel Q-1 at Cecil Commerce Center (ACFR).

The city page also calls Jacksonville the most western city on the East Coast, and it cites a magazine ranking among the reasons it gives; those are the city's own marketing claims, not measured data (City of Jacksonville). Last verified: October 18, 2026, with the warehousing, trucking, courier and freight support rows re-read cell by cell in the BLS QCEW files (Duval 2019, 2025 and first quarter 2026; Florida 2025), plus a reread of the BLS Jacksonville metro summary and the city's targeted industries page, and checking the employer and taxpayer schedules in the City of Jacksonville fiscal 2024 ACFR.