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Moving Companies in Chester, NJ

89
Movers nearby
53%
Insured
47
Licensed
3.43
688 reviews

If you're leaving Chester for another state, expect your mover to price the job by the weight and volume of your shipment and the mileage to your new address, not by the hour the way a local move is billed.

For comparison, a local move out of a one- to two-bedroom home with a two- to three-person crew takes three to six hours and runs $550 to $1,100; a three- to four-bedroom home takes six to ten-plus hours and runs $1,500 to $2,500 or more. Labor-only help, if you rent your own truck, runs about $81 an hour per helper.

Chester Township's narrow, winding roads and steep or gravel driveways can keep a large truck from reaching your door, so describe your driveway during the walk-through to avoid a shuttle-fee surprise. Basic carrier liability pays only about $0.60 per pound per item - a ten-pound television worth $2,000 is worth just $6 in a claim - so ask about full value protection before anything goes on the truck.

Budget tips separately: roughly $20 per person for a half-day crew, and $40 to $50 or more per person for a full eight-hour-plus day.

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Who's moving to Chester, NJ

Federal tax-filer migration data for Morris County.

-1,398 net households
What kind of mover will you need?
Moving in
12,996 households arrived
71% under 50 mi 8% 50–250 mi 6% over 250 mi 15% not attributed

65% arrived from elsewhere in New Jersey. 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.

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Moving out
14,394 households left
53% under 50 mi 11% 50–250 mi 17% over 250 mi 19% not attributed

53% 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
Net household change, five years
-828
18–19
+154
19–20
+41
20–21
-752
21–22
-1,398
22–23
Which states Chester trades with

Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.

New York +734
2,212 in
1,478 out
Florida -1,314
458 in
1,772 out
477 in
977 out
California -196
278 in
474 out
Texas -241
143 in
384 out
Nearby, under 50 miles
Newark, NJ 16 mi Paterson, NJ 17 mi Hackensack, NJ 24 mi Sparta, NJ 18 mi Jersey City, NJ 24 mi Bridgewater, NJ 21 mi Elizabeth, NJ 18 mi Phillipsburg, NJ 27 mi
Beyond 50 miles
Toms River, NJ 63 mi West Palm Beach, FL 1,036 mi Los Angeles, CA 2,419 mi Philadelphia, PA 68 mi Islip, NY 73 mi Raleigh, NC 417 mi Fort Lauderdale, FL 1,069 mi Phoenix, AZ 2,111 mi

Households arriving from another state report $142,134 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in New Jersey report $129,747. 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 Morris County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 17% 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 Jersey migration page →

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1,150
cubic feet — what a local crew loads
8,050 lb what a long-distance carrier quotes on
26 ft rental truck, if you drive it yourself

Industry rules of thumb — about seven pounds per cubic foot, and published rental-truck capacities. Not our carrier records, not a quote. Bring both numbers to the call and what you get back will finally be comparable.

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