Moving Companies in Chatham, MA
When planning a move from Chatham, check the movers below for local crews that match your timing and budget.
Hourly Pricing for Local Moves
Local Massachusetts moves are billed hourly by crew size along with travel fees and minimums. Geography plus seasonal demand on Cape Cod can produce slightly higher regional tariffs.
A Cape Cod tariff sets two movers plus a truck at $159.00 hourly with a 4.0 hour minimum covering travel for $695.00.
| Crew Size | Hourly Rate | Minimum | Base Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 movers + 1 truck | $100 - $160 | 3 to 4 hours | $400 - $700+ |
| 3 movers + 1 truck | $140 - $230 | 3 to 4 hours | $600 - $1,000+ |
| 4 movers + 1 truck | $180 - $300 | 3 to 4 hours | $900 - $1,400+ |
Labor-only service, if you provide the vehicle, costs $80 - $100 per worker each hour or $380 - $800 as a flat fee. In Chatham those jobs typically run $386.12 to $802.90.
Cape Cod operators often add a travel or fuel surcharge of $55 - $75 or more. Rates can rise by 1.25x to 1.5x for weekends, month-end dates or overtime past eight hours.
Cape Cod Logistics
Crews start the clock at their depot, so delays crossing the Sagamore or Bourne Bridges or on Route 6 become billable. Chatham streets are often narrow, tree-lined and historic with tight intersections plus long sandy or gravel drives that stop 26-foot trucks; a shuttle using a smaller truck may be needed and adds cost.
May through September brings peak demand from rentals and second-home changes, driving up rates and cutting availability. Late fall, winter or early spring mid-week dates give more room to negotiate. Confirm any mover holds an active Massachusetts DTE or MassDOT certificate and request the department number for proof of insurance.
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Who's moving to Chatham, MA
Federal tax-filer migration data for Barnstable County.
53% arrived from elsewhere in Massachusetts. 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 movers49% of departures went farther than 50 miles. Beyond that range moves are priced by weight and distance, and a state line means the carrier needs interstate authority.
See the full picture — 5-year trend, state flows and top routes
Chatham refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country replaces them almost one for one. Head count stayed flat all the same — arriving households are smaller (1.56 people on average) than the ones leaving (1.45), so the city gained homes without gaining residents.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $119,079 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Massachusetts report $174,209. 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 Barnstable County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 31% 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 Massachusetts migration page →
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