Moving Companies in Baytown, TX
Baytown pricing follows the same hourly logic as the rest of the greater Houston area, so once you know your home size you can get pretty close to a real number. A one-bedroom place usually runs $300 to $600 and takes about two to three hours with a two-person crew. Bump up to a two-bedroom and you're looking at $700 to $1,400 over three to five hours, while a three-bedroom runs $1,000 to $2,000 across five to seven hours. Got a four-bedroom or bigger? Budget $1,500 to $3,000 or more, since that needs a bigger crew and a longer day.
If you've already got your own truck or container and just need people to load and unload, that labor-only help runs about $73 an hour per mover; in Baytown specifically, most of those jobs land between $292.82 and $609.30 total. Full-service crews with their own truck run higher, $130 to $200 or more an hour.
Wondering what to tip? A hundred dollars is considered a genuinely generous tip for a crew that took good care of your things.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Harris County.
53% arrived from elsewhere in Texas. 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 movers50% 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
Baytown 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 $78,284 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Texas report $70,583. 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 Harris County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 9% 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 Texas migration page →
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