Moving Companies in South Charleston, WV
Local Moving Rates
Around South Charleston and the greater Kanawha Valley, local jobs are billed hourly based on crew size. A two-person crew with a truck runs $100 to $150 an hour, while a three-person crew runs $150 to $200 or more.
What That Means in Total Cost
A standard one- or two-bedroom apartment usually takes 3 to 5 hours, landing around $350 to $800 total. A three- or four-bedroom house takes longer — often 6 to 10 hours or more — and typically totals $900 to $2,000 or more, with stairs, overall volume, and heavy specialty items like a piano or safe pushing the job toward the higher end.
Before You Commit
Ask each crew whether their hourly rate includes a minimum number of hours and whether travel time to and from your address is billed separately. If you own anything unusually heavy or delicate, mention it when you request pricing rather than the day of the move, since it changes both the labor time and the truck needed for the job.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Kanawha County.
55% arrived from elsewhere in West Virginia. Most arrivals are in-state moves, so a regional company will usually cover it — check interstate authority only if you're crossing a state line.
See licensed movers50% of departures left the state. Interstate moves are priced by weight and distance, and the carrier must hold active interstate operating authority.
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 $52,653 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in West Virginia report $43,921. 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 Kanawha County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 50% 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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