Moving Companies in Gardner, MA
Gardner-area movers price a job two ways: a flat quote sized to your home, or an hourly crew rate. Which is cheaper depends on how far you are moving and how much needs to be carried.
Flat estimates by home size: studio or one-bedroom, $350 to $650. Two-bedroom, $600 to $1,000. Three-bedroom, $900 to $1,600. Four-bedroom or larger, $1,400 to $2,400 and up.
Hourly crews run $100 to $200 an hour for two to three movers plus a truck. Add roughly $50 an hour for each extra mover. Renting your own truck or pod and hiring loaders only costs closer to $80 an hour, which can be worth it if you can handle the packing yourself.
A typical labor-only job in the area lands between $386.12 and $802.90 total, depending on how much needs to be loaded and how far the crew has to carry it.
Tip movers $4 to $5 per hour, more for a tough job with stairs or heavy furniture. Get a written quote that states whether the price is hourly or flat, confirm the crew size, and ask about a minimum charge before moving day.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Worcester County.
58% 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 movers45% 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 $68,569 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Massachusetts report $84,848. 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 Worcester County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 20% 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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