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Table 4: Weight of Inbound Commodity Flows by State of Destination: 2012

Tuesday, June 7, 2016
State of Destination Weight of shipments 90 percent confidence intervals
Of tonnage (in thousand) Of Percent Share
Tons (Thousand) Percent share of U.S. total 90 percent (lower bound) 90 percent (upper bound) 90 percent (lower bound) 90 percent (upper bound)
United States 11,299,409 100.0 10,926,596 11,672,222 — —
Alabama 197,503 1.7 177,230 217,776 2.0 2.6
Alaska 25,882 0.2 19,193 32,571 0.2 0.2
Arizona 137,013 1.2 113,405 160,621 1.5 1.8
Arkansas 133,291 1.2 108,370 158,212 1.0 1.4
California 764,736 6.8 707,264 822,208 6.7 8.4
Colorado 171,172 1.5 151,719 190,625 1.0 1.4
Connecticut 151,471 1.3 76,229 226,713 0.6 0.6
Delaware 30,115 0.3 20,234 39,996 0.2 0.6
District of Columbia 4,154 0.0 3,355 4,953 0.1 0.1
Florida 474,621 4.2 365,003 584,239 4.4 5.4
Georgia 295,855 2.6 248,675 343,035 3.0 4.0
Hawaii 26,752 0.2 18,612 34,892 0.1 0.5
Idaho 38,359 0.3 30,203 46,515 0.4 0.4
Illinois 593,580 5.3 532,650 654,510 4.5 5.1
Indiana 342,761 3.0 295,640 389,882 2.8 3.4
Iowa 248,495 2.2 207,501 289,489 1.6 2.0
Kansas 180,735 1.6 155,226 206,244 1.3 1.7
Kentucky 227,861 2.0 176,905 278,817 2.1 2.7
Louisiana 401,479 3.6 338,927 464,031 3.6 4.6
Maine 38,659 0.3 29,163 48,155 0.1 0.5
Maryland 127,687 1.1 115,984 139,390 1.0 1.3
Massachusetts 129,873 1.1 84,880 174,866 0.9 1.3
Michigan 279,276 2.5 241,906 316,646 2.2 2.8
Minnesota 259,719 2.3 218,301 301,137 1.8 2.1
Mississippi 141,438 1.3 79,735 203,141 1.0 1.3
Missouri 244,489 2.2 207,293 281,685 2.3 3.0
Montana 46,696 0.4 33,686 59,706 0.2 0.5
Nebraska 128,810 1.1 98,588 159,032 0.7 1.7
Nevada 45,381 0.4 32,737 58,025 0.5 0.8
New Hampshire 34,381 0.3 22,785 45,977 0.3 0.3
New Jersey 207,688 1.8 171,142 244,234 1.8 2.1
New Mexico 60,980 0.5 37,060 84,900 0.3 0.6
New York 386,554 3.4 347,584 425,524 2.7 3.1
North Carolina 256,319 2.3 224,840 287,798 2.2 2.8
North Dakota 82,221 0.7 54,490 109,952 0.3 1.0
Ohio 484,691 4.3 430,496 538,886 4.0 4.6
Oklahoma 199,083 1.8 160,402 237,764 1.3 1.7
Oregon 107,304 0.9 83,308 131,300 1.2 1.9
Pennsylvania 419,090 3.7 380,680 457,500 3.4 4.1
Rhode Island 22,851 0.2 17,196 28,506 0.1 0.1
South Carolina 125,489 1.1 107,317 143,661 1.3 1.6
South Dakota 55,617 0.5 41,039 70,195 0.4 0.4
Tennessee 183,756 1.6 154,789 212,723 2.1 2.8
Texas 1,859,375 16.5 1,610,574 2,108,176 11.0 12.6
Utah 68,662 0.6 60,985 76,339 0.7 1.0
Vermont 22,709 0.2 14,883 30,535 0.2 0.2
Virginia 222,300 2.0 179,108 265,492 2.0 2.6
Washington 208,846 1.8 168,650 249,042 1.8 2.4
West Virginia 96,164 0.9 75,893 116,435 0.6 1.0
Wisconsin 257,515 2.3 222,113 292,917 1.8 2.1
Wyoming 49,947 0.4 34,291 65,603 0.4 1.0

NOTES: The appendices provide information on confidentially protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, sample design, and definitions. Links to this information on the Internet may be found at http://www.bts.gov/publications/commodity_flow_survey.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census: Transportation Commodity Flow Survey, December 2014.