Moving Companies in Shrewsbury, MO
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$100 to $135 an hour — that is what a standard local moving crew costs in Shrewsbury and the wider St. Louis metro, usually averaging around $128 total for two to three movers and a truck. Almost every company also holds to a 2 to 3-hour minimum, so a small local job still starts around $250 to $400 in labor alone.
From there, total cost scales with home size: $400 to $900 for a studio or one-bedroom, $1,100 to $2,100 for two to three bedrooms, and $2,200 to $4,100 or more for a larger four-bedroom-plus home. Booking during summer, May through August, or right at the start or end of a month typically adds a 20% to 30% premium, so a mid-week, mid-month date is the cheaper option.
Two things worth checking before signing: how the crew calculates travel time to and from the address, and what the coverage actually pays out. Standard liability tops out at $0.60 per pound per item, so a 30-pound, $2,000 TV would only net $18 if damaged in transit.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for St. Louis County.
58% arrived from elsewhere in Missouri. 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 movers52% 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 $83,849 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Missouri report $62,265. 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 St. Louis County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 18% 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 Missouri migration page →
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