Moving Companies in Huntington, WV
Take a look through the movers below once you know roughly what to expect — Huntington pricing splits pretty cleanly between hourly labor and full local moves.
Hourly-only help — just muscle to load or unload a truck or container — runs about $84 to $125 per hour, with most small jobs totaling $330.98 to $730.63. A full local move of an apartment or small home typically costs $350 to $1,000 and takes a crew around 3 to 5 hours. Most Huntington companies price a standard crew and truck at roughly $125 an hour.
Moving out of the area changes the math: long-distance jobs run $2,000 to $5,000, priced by weight, mileage and volume instead of an hourly rate. Before booking anyone, confirm whether you need local hourly service or a long-distance quote, since that decision affects both the price and which companies can take the job.
A move that's mostly heavy furniture and few boxes tends to sit toward the lower end of the local range, while a home full of bulky items or several flights of stairs pushes the hours — and the bill — up. Get a couple of quotes so you can compare crew size and hourly rate side by side rather than judging on price alone.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Cabell County.
52% 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 movers46% 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 $49,522 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in West Virginia report $44,655. 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 Cabell County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 48% 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 West Virginia migration page →
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