# Warehouse and silo rental facts 2026

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- Author: Hudson Paul, Cofounder and research editor, Pipetidy
- Published: 2026-09-21
- Last updated: 2026-09-22
- Sources last checked: 2026-09-22

## Direct answer

Warehouse and silo operators manage availability, capacity, commodity or inventory requirements, inspections, access, renewals, and billing. U.S. commercial grain storage alone included about 7,900 off-farm facilities and 11.8 billion bushels of capacity in 2025, illustrating why structured account and capacity follow-up matters.

## Headline facts

- **7,900** — Approximate U.S. commercial off-farm grain storage facilities covered by the June 2025 survey. ([USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2025](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/grst0625.pdf))
- **11.8B bu** — U.S. off-farm commercial grain storage capacity reported in 2025. ([USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2025](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Todays_Reports/reports/grst0625.pdf))
- **10.4M** — People employed in EU transportation and storage services in 2022. ([Eurostat, 2022](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/SEPDF/cache/10091.pdf))

## Regional context

### United States

All 50 states and the District of Columbia. The SBA counted 36.2 million U.S. small businesses in its 2025 profile release. Official classifications distinguish general, refrigerated, farm-product, and other warehousing, while USDA separately enumerates commercial grain storage.

Source: [SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025](https://advocacy.sba.gov/2025/06/30/new-advocacy-report-shows-the-number-of-small-businesses-in-the-u-s-exceeds-36-million/)

### Southeast United States

Pipetidy's target states: Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia. These seven states contain about 5.49 million small businesses and roughly 8.8 million small-business employees. Ports, inland distribution, manufacturing, food, timber, cotton, poultry, and grain create varied capacity and handling requirements.

Source: [SBA state profiles, 2025](https://advocacy.sba.gov/2025/06/30/2025-small-business-profiles-for-the-states-territories-and-nation/)

### United Kingdom

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The UK had about 114,000 VAT/PAYE-registered transport and storage businesses and 141,000 agriculture, forestry, and fishing businesses in 2025. Dense logistics markets combine commercial property, fulfilment, cold storage, and agricultural storage within a constrained land market.

Source: [Office for National Statistics, 2025](https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/bulletins/ukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation/2025)

### Northern Europe

Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for this factsheet series. Eurostat's structural business statistics cover detailed enterprise activity across EU and EFTA markets, including transport, storage, rental, repair, and trade. Ports, forestry, seafood, grain, and dispersed population centers create specialized storage and seasonal capacity requirements.

Source: [Eurostat structural business statistics](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/structural-business-statistics)

### Central Europe

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary for this factsheet series. Central Europe contains several of the EU's largest freight and industrial markets; Germany and Poland together produced almost 35% of EU road-freight tonne-kilometres in 2024. Manufacturing and cross-border distribution corridors make contract milestones, capacity, and renewal visibility especially important.

Source: [Eurostat road freight, 2025](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250709-1)

### Australia & New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand, reported separately where official statistics differ. Australia had 261,109 transport, postal, and warehousing businesses in 2025-26; New Zealand transport, postal, and warehousing sales reached NZ$11.75 billion in the June 2026 quarter. Long supply chains, export agriculture, and seasonal harvests make capacity, access, handling, and renewal coordination critical.

Source: [ABS and Stats NZ, 2026](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/business-indicators/counts-australian-businesses-including-entries-and-exits/latest-release)

## Methodology

Pipetidy Research selects primary government, statistical-agency, and publisher-original sources. Each figure retains its source period, geography, and classification; unlike measures are not combined into a synthetic global total.

## Limitations

Industry definitions differ by country and statistical system. Regional baselines describe the wider operating market and should not be read as a like-for-like market-size comparison or as evidence of Pipetidy customer outcomes.

## Suggested citation

Paul, Hudson. “Warehouse and silo rental facts 2026.” Pipetidy Research, P101 LLC. Updated 2026-09-22. https://pipetidy.com/industry-facts/warehouse-silo-rental-statistics