Moving Companies in New York, NY
Start with the mover cards listed below this page and treat each one as a short checklist: insurance first, licence second, reviews third.
How to read each mover card in New York City
The insurance badge signals that a company can provide a certificate of insurance, which many managed co-ops, condos, and doorman buildings here require before movers enter; some providers charge a $50 to $150 administrative fee to add your building as an additional insured. Licence status matters because New York law caps final local moving charges at the written estimate plus 25% upon delivery, so an unlicensed operator leaves you without that protection. Treat review count as a consistency signal: a high count with recent feedback about stairs, long carries, and parking tickets tells you more than a perfect score built on only a few comments.
Cost signals to check while you browse
For a local NYC move, plan around an average of $1,050. Studios and 1-bedrooms commonly run $800 to $1,500, while 2-to-3-bedroom moves often land between $1,500 and $3,000 or more. Hourly crews of two to three movers typically cost $85 to $110 per hour. Regional long-distance jobs start near $2,200, and cross-country moves usually fall between $3,500 and $6,000 or higher. Packing services add about $400 to $1,500. From June through September, industry-wide rates climb 15% to 30%, so a card showing quick availability and current reviews is especially useful then.
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Who's moving to New York, NY
Federal tax-filer migration data for New York County.
62% 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 movers56% 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
New York refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country more than replaces them.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $136,980 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in New York report $142,900. 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 New York County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 7% 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 New York migration page →
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