Moving Companies in Portsmouth, NH
Local moves around Portsmouth run on an hourly rate, with the total shaped by your home’s size and how many hours the crew needs.
What’s the hourly rate?
A standard 2-person crew and truck runs $120 to $160 per hour. Add a third mover and the rate climbs by roughly 30% to 40%.
What does a full move cost?
Across the Seacoast, local moves under 100 miles land between $792 and $5,998 depending on home size.
| Home size | Total cost |
|---|---|
| Studio or 1-bedroom | $515–$1,040 |
| Two-bedroom | $1,032–$2,500 |
| Three to four bedrooms | $2,253–$3,953 |
| Five-plus bedrooms | $3,899–$5,998+ |
What about a long-distance move?
Cross into a long-distance move and pricing switches from an hourly clock to weight and mileage instead, a different formula than the local rates above.
Whichever bracket your home falls into, treat it as a starting point — stairs, long carries, and how much you’ve already packed all move the final number. The movers listed for Portsmouth below are a good place to start comparing.
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Who's moving to Portsmouth, NH
Federal tax-filer migration data for Rockingham County.
67% arrived from another state. Long-haul moves need a carrier with active interstate operating authority — plenty of local companies don't hold one.
See licensed movers58% 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 $136,704 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in New Hampshire report $98,915. 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 Rockingham County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 22% 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 Hampshire migration page →
How much truck space do you need?
I’m moving a that’s .
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.