Moving Companies in St Louis, MO
St. Louis moving costs split clearly by distance: local moves under 100 miles are billed hourly, while anything further is priced by weight.
Local crews average $145 to $200 or more per hour for a standard two-person team. By home size, a studio or 1-bedroom typically runs $285 to $634 total. A 2-bedroom lands around $692 to $1,065. A 3- to 4-bedroom home runs $1,654 to $2,929.
Leaving the metro area changes the math. Long-distance moves over 100 miles are priced by the total weight and volume of your belongings rather than the clock, and a 2- to 3-bedroom home moving out of St. Louis generally falls between $1,260 and $7,140 or more.
A couple of add-ons are worth budgeting for separately. Professional packing and unpacking service typically adds $280 to $2,200 on top of the base move, and unusually heavy items like a piano or a safe often carry their own handling fee beyond the standard quote.
Most full-service companies in the area also enforce a minimum charge regardless of how short the job runs, so a small move won't necessarily cost less than the range shown for your home size.
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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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