Moving Companies in South Portland, ME
South Portland movers price local jobs mainly by home size and crew type, so it helps to see the tiers side by side.
| Home size | Cost / time |
|---|---|
| Studio / 1-bedroom | $380 - $780, 3-4 hrs |
| 2-bedroom | $770 - $1,200, 4-5 hrs |
| 3-4 bedroom | $1,700 - $3,000, 6-9 hrs |
Those figures assume a full crew and truck, billed hourly at roughly $130 to $190 an hour for a standard two-person team, with peak-season jobs running toward the top of that range. If you only need labor, no truck, expect closer to $80 to $110 an hour instead, since you are paying for muscle rather than the vehicle.
Separately, straight labor-only help, loading or unloading a truck or POD you have already rented, typically totals $330.98 to $730.63 for the whole job.
Comparing these two paths, a full crew versus renting your own truck and just paying for labor, is usually the biggest cost decision you will make, more than which specific company you pick.
See how local crews compare in the directory below.
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Who's moving to South Portland, ME
Federal tax-filer migration data for Cumberland County.
62% 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 movers38% 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
South Portland refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country more than replaces them. Head count stayed flat all the same — arriving households are smaller (1.43 people on average) than the ones leaving (1.49), so the city gained homes without gaining residents.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $99,053 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Maine report $64,806. 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 Cumberland County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 28% 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 Maine migration page →
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