Moving Companies in Chelsea, MA
Chelsea's high population density and position next to Boston mean that moving day involves distinctive regional challenges. Local moves covering distances shorter than 50 miles are billed hourly based on crew size. In 2026 rates are $100 - $130 per hour with two movers and a truck for a one-bedroom apartment, $140 - $180 per hour with three movers and a truck for a two-to-three-bedroom home or apartment, and $180 - $230 per hour with four movers and a truck for large homes of three or more bedrooms. Total expenses typically incorporate a required travel fee or fuel surcharge often amounting to one or two hours of labor for the round trip from the company's base.
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Who's moving to Chelsea, MA
Federal tax-filer migration data for Suffolk County.
50% 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 movers57% 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
Chelsea refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country only partly replaces them.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $85,131 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Massachusetts report $102,282. 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 Suffolk County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 10% 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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