Moving Companies in Manvel, TX
Local moves around Manvel and the greater Houston/Brazoria County area are billed by the hour, with the total scaling to home size. A studio or one-bedroom typically runs $350 to $600, a two-bedroom lands between $600 and $1,200, and a three- or four-bedroom house runs $1,200 to $2,200 or more once you factor in a bigger crew and a longer job.
Crew rates themselves run $85 to $175 an hour depending on how many movers you need and whether you're booking during a busy stretch like summer or the last days of the month. Many local outfits also add a travel or fuel fee worth roughly one hour of labor to cover the drive from their base near Pearland or Houston.
Timing shifts the price further: demand and rates climb in the three days before and after month-end as leases turn over, so booking mid-month, roughly the 10th through the 20th, tends to bring lower rates and easier scheduling. Any company working within Texas is required to hold a TxDMV number, which is worth confirming before you sign anything.
Free basic coverage only pays about 60 cents a pound per item if something is damaged, so ask about full value protection if you're shipping electronics or family pieces worth more than that. Movers also cannot legally carry propane tanks or other hazardous items, so keep medications, documents, chargers and anything you need on arrival in your own car. Check the movers listed below for options that fit this route.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Brazoria County.
76% 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 movers55% 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 $76,068 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Texas report $68,403. 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 Brazoria County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 25% 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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