The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 16 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Aurora, IL, and 8 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Aurora price measurement, only the Illinois range on the Illinois page. Moves that stay inside Illinois are licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
Aurora is the second-largest Illinois city and a fast-growing west suburb anchored on the Fox Valley corridor. Here's what licensed Aurora movers charge in 2026 and how to navigate gated-community pre-approval.
Common service neighborhoods: Downtown Aurora, Stonebridge, Oakhurst North, Eola.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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Aurora is the second-largest Illinois city and a fast-growing west suburb anchored on the Fox Valley corridor. Here's what licensed Aurora movers charge in 2026 and how to navigate gated-community pre-approval.
Aurora's moving market is dominated by Fox Valley suburban single-family homes and a growing base of newer subdivisions on the metro's western edge. Carrier supply is solid because most Chicago-area movers also service the west suburbs.
ICC regulates intrastate; FMCSA covers interstate. Gated communities (Stonebridge, Eola, parts of Oakhurst) often maintain approved-mover lists and require COI.
Pricing is slightly below Naperville due to less corporate-relocation premium.
Long-distance from Aurora is essentially Chicago metro pricing — pull the moving cost calculator for a baseline.
ICC regulates intrastate. HOA approved-mover lists common in gated communities.
FMCSA-regulated. Verify USDOT and confirm carrier vs broker.
May through September is peak. Winter is cheap but carries snowstorm reschedule risk.
The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Aurora is the Illinois statewide range, and it is published in full on the Illinois page.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Aurora transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 49,707 returns moving out of DuPage County, Kane County, Kendall County and Will County, the counties Aurora sits in, and 44,031 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 80,125 individuals leaving and 75,788 arriving.
Aurora spans 4 counties, so these figures cover all of them: DuPage County, Kane County, Kendall County and Will County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Aurora.
The counties receiving the most households from DuPage County, Kane County, Kendall County and Will County were Cook County (16,392 returns), McHenry County (1,674 returns) and DeKalb County (1,185 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Cook County (22,594 returns), McHenry County (1,204 returns) and Lake County (839 returns).
These figures come from federal tax return data and cover all household moves, not only those using professional movers.
IRS SOI county outflow fileIRS SOI county inflow fileData as of tax filing years 2022 to 2023
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 16 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Aurora, and 8 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Aurora. It is not the number of companies that will serve a move there: a mover registered in a neighbouring city can take the job, and a company registered in Aurora may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Aurora work Downtown Aurora, Stonebridge, Oakhurst North, Eola and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Aurora are licensed by the Illinois Commerce Commission, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Illinois page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Illinois. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Aurora.
Long-running Chicago-area mover with full-service interstate operations. Reliable choice for Midwest-to-South relocations.
Aaron Bros Moving System is headquartered elsewhere in IL. That does not by itself confirm an office in Aurora, and no service claim is made here.
Chicago local mover with strong building-COI experience in Loop and Lake Shore Drive high-rises. Hourly pricing is competitive against franchise operators.
City Movers is headquartered elsewhere in IL. That does not by itself confirm an office in Aurora, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
American Van Lines states first-party that it staffs moves with W2 employees rather than day labour. It requires a deposit to hold a move date, so ask what portion is refundable and by when before you pay it. We publish no BBB grade and hold no complaint dataset, so nothing here rates the company's service.
American Van Lines publishes broad nationwide moving service on its own site. It is shown separately from companies based in this area and its presence here is not evidence of a local office.
Wheaton World Wide Moving shares a parent company with Bekins and moves interstate household goods through an agent network under its own federal registration.
Wheaton World Wide Moving publishes broad nationwide moving service on its own site. It is shown separately from companies based in this area and its presence here is not evidence of a local office.
3 companies with a Aurora address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 1 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 1 listed below are the ones registered with the agency longest, ordered by the federal registration date, earliest first. Registration age is the agency's own record. It is not a ranking, it is not a quality judgement and it is not a recommendation.
35 active registrants in Aurora tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 30 of those carry any authority row at all. The cargo tick box is filled in by the registrant, so this list uses the agency grant instead, then sets aside general freight, trucking, logistics and courier registrants that hold the authority without presenting themselves as household movers. It is not every mover serving Aurora: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
PLANES MOVING AND STORAGE OF CHICAGO LLC
USDOT 1459759 · 1100 BILTER ROAD, AURORA, IL 60504
It filed 27 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 3, 2006, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC551442, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
Data as of 2026-08-15 from the FMCSA company census, with authority status as of 2026-08-16. The query behind this list. Information provided by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
No. Federal registration and Illinois authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Illinois licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Illinois needs the Household Goods License from the Illinois Commerce Commission. Its rates sit in tariff filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission under 92 Ill. Adm. Code 1225.
Illinois publishes a licence lookup: Illinois Commerce Commission licence search.
Source: Illinois Commerce Commission, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across Illinois runs April–September. Dates outside that window, and dates away from the last and first few days of any month, are where carriers have spare capacity — and spare capacity is what makes a crew negotiable on price.
We do not publish a percentage saving for moving off-peak in Aurora. We hold no month-by-month booking price data for this city, and a discount figure taken from a national average would not describe this market. What we can say is structural, and it holds in every market:
The only reliable way to price a specific date is to put the same date in front of several licensed carriers and compare written estimates. Ask each one what the same move costs two weeks earlier or later — the gap between those two numbers is your real off-peak saving in Aurora, measured on your move rather than on an average.
A tip is never part of a written estimate and never part of a binding price. It is discretionary, it is paid per mover rather than per crew, and it is handed to each mover directly at the end of the job rather than to the foreman to divide. Our working guideline scales with hours rather than with the value of the shipment, because that is how moving labour is actually priced:
These are a BestMovers.info editorial guideline, not a survey result. We hold no tipping survey for Aurora and no federal record covers gratuities, so nothing here is a local figure. Read the full tipping guide for stairs, long carries, storage and interstate deliveries, where the crew that loads is not the crew that unloads.
Free boxes come from businesses that receive stock in cartons and throw the cartons away, and from households that finished moving last week. The sources are the same in every city, including Aurora:
Ask in the morning, when the overnight delivery has just been unpacked and the cartons have not yet been flattened. Skip anything damp, greasy or previously used for produce that leaked. The free boxes guide covers how many you need by home size — those counts are BestMovers.info planning estimates rather than measured figures — and which boxes are worth buying rather than scavenging.
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Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
How we evaluate Aurora movers: we verify federal registration and operating authority against FMCSA records, record carrier or broker classification, and note state licensing where the state regulator publishes it. The list above is not ranked and carries no numeric score. Read the full methodology