Moving Companies in Moorhead, MN
Labor-only moving help in the Moorhead/Fargo-Moorhead area typically runs $90 to $105 per hour, with small jobs totaling $364.66 to $708.59.
For a full local move with a truck and crew, costs generally scale by home size: a one-bedroom apartment runs about $500 to $520 over roughly four hours, a two-bedroom home $850 to $870 over about five hours, and a three-to-four bedroom home $1,900 to $2,300 or more depending on volume and total load time.
Whether labor-only or a full crew makes sense mostly comes down to whether you've already got a truck or a container lined up. Labor-only is cheaper per hour but doesn't include the vehicle.
Either way, pricing tracks the size of your home closely: a one-bedroom apartment runs about four hours of labor, a two-bedroom around five hours, and a three-to-four bedroom home takes noticeably longer depending on how much you're bringing and how far the crew has to carry it.
Get a written estimate rather than a verbal ballpark before booking, and confirm whether the quoted hourly rate already includes the crew's drive time to your address or whether that's billed as a separate travel charge.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Clay County.
69% arrived from another state. Long-haul moves need a carrier with active interstate operating authority — plenty of local companies don't hold one.
See licensed movers49% of departures stayed under 50 miles. Short local moves are usually priced by the hour, so a regional company is often the cheaper call.
See the full picture — 5-year trend, state flows and top routes
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $49,341 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Minnesota report $46,330. Long-distance arrivals are the higher-budget half of the market.
How this works: IRS SOI County-to-County Migration Data, 2022-2023. The IRS compares the address on consecutive tax returns, so every move here is a real filed household. The catch: it publishes annually with about a two-year lag, counts Clay County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 36% of moves unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets instead. See the whole state on the Minnesota migration page →
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