Moving Companies in Johnston, RI
Local movers in Johnston typically charge by the hour, averaging around $90 for a standard two-person crew and truck. Adding a third or fourth mover for a larger home pushes the rate up to roughly $120 to $180 an hour, though the job usually finishes faster with more hands.
By home size, a studio or one-bedroom apartment generally runs $484 to $1,000 over three to five hours of work. A two-to-three-bedroom home typically takes five to eight hours and costs $1,000 to $2,200. A larger four-bedroom-plus house often needs a full day or multiple trucks and can run $2,200 to $3,500 or more.
If you'd rather handle the driving and loading yourself, renting a truck locally costs $58 to $135, though that figure doesn't include any labor, so you're on the hook for lifting everything yourself or hiring separate help by the hour. Whichever route you choose, get a specific quote based on your actual inventory rather than a rough guess over the phone, since the size of your home drives the final price more than anything else. Most companies also enforce a minimum number of billable hours and add a separate travel fee to reach Johnston, so factor both into any hourly number you're comparing.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Providence County.
77% 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 movers46% 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 $65,739 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Rhode Island report $69,993. 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 Providence 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 Rhode Island migration page →
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