MoveThe relocation ledger · A Moe Kahok publication
What your move will actually cost — by the numbers.
MoveNoble keeps the books on America's moves: route-by-route cost ledgers, a moving guide for every state, checklists that run on a timeline, and mover vetting built on federal records. Every figure is sourced to public data — IRS migration files, the U.S. Census Bureau, FMCSA — and shown with its source. No invented averages, no mover marketing dressed up as advice.
- Every figure sourced on the page
- IRS · Census · FMCSA public data
- A publication — not a moving company
- No mover pays to be ranked
Moving Cost Calculator
Full calculator opens at launch — early 2027Estimates will be anchored to published survey averages — the average U.S. move runs about $3,020 (about $1,489 local, $3,129 long-distance) — and, where a route ledger exists, to that route's own data.
Counts from tax filings
Household moves — and the income that traveled with them — come from the IRS Statistics of Income migration files. Filings, not mover surveys.
Population on the record
Per-capita figures divide by U.S. Census Bureau state population estimates, named on the page wherever they are used.
Movers checked federally
The vetting ledgers work from FMCSA registration and complaint records — the same federal files the industry answers to.
Not a moving company
MoveNoble sells no moves and no leads, and takes no payment to rank a mover. It publishes the ledger; you make the call.
The route ledger — busiest routes in America
From our flagship study, Where Americans Moved — and the Money That Moved With Them, built on the IRS Statistics of Income migration files. Households are tax returns filed; income is the adjusted gross income those households carried with them.
| № | Route | Households | People | Avg. income (AGI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CATX California → Texas | 44,417 | 82,481 | $107,273 |
| 2 | NYNJ New York → New Jersey | 43,699 | 73,471 | $116,966 |
| 3 | NYFL New York → Florida | 43,187 | 71,476 | $133,218 |
| 4 | CAAZ California → Arizona | 28,402 | 47,885 | $87,556 |
| 5 | FLGA Florida → Georgia | 28,263 | 50,483 | $65,134 |
See the route cost ledgers · All 50 state migration profiles
Your route, your numbers
Price your move before a mover prices it for you
Pick the route, home size, method, and month — the calculator returns a line-item range anchored to published averages and the route ledgers, with the workings shown.
Start with a section
- Route Costs — what a specific state-to-state move costs, by home size and method
- Moving To — the arrival ledger for every state: costs, deadlines, first-month math
- Moving Costs — movers, containers, rental trucks, packing, storage, car shipping, hidden fees
- Checklists — the 8-week timeline and week-by-week lists that keep a move on schedule
- Mover Vetting — verify a USDOT number, read an estimate, spot the scams before they spot you
- Research — the migration study, state profiles, and the datasets behind them
Before you book any mover
Moving fraud runs on one play: a low phone quote, then your goods held until you pay more. It is preventable. Check the company's USDOT record, insist on knowing whether your estimate is binding, and never hire a mover you found through a quote form you can't trace. Start with the vetting ledger.
Flagship study
Where Americans Moved — and the Money That Moved With Them
Every year the IRS records where tax filers moved — and how much income moved with them. MoveNoble turns that file into a readable ledger: net households and net income for every state, the top 100 routes with the average income on each, and where high-income and under-35 households are actually going. Read the study.
MoveNoble opens in full in early 2027, ahead of the May–September moving season. The research ledgers and first cost guides publish first; route ledgers follow in order of how many households actually travel them.