The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 267 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Indianapolis, IN, and 116 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Indianapolis price measurement, only the Indiana range on the Indiana page. Moves that stay inside Indiana are licensed by the Indiana Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier Services. Indy 500 weekend (late May) sells out movers and storage; downtown loading-dock access is restricted during race week.
Bekins Moving Solutions is based in Indianapolis. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near Indianapolis, companies based elsewhere in Indiana, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Broad Ripple, Mass Ave, Downtown, Meridian-Kessler, Fountain Square.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 29,313 returns moving out of Marion County, the county Indianapolis sits in, and 26,514 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 49,049 individuals leaving and 41,414 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Marion County were Hamilton County (3,949 returns), Hendricks County (2,890 returns) and Johnson County (2,623 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Hamilton County (3,043 returns), Hendricks County (2,161 returns) and Johnson County (2,153 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 267 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Indianapolis, and 116 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Indianapolis. 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 Indianapolis may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Indianapolis work Broad Ripple, Mass Ave, Downtown, Meridian-Kessler, Fountain Square and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Indianapolis are licensed by the Indiana Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Indiana page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in Indianapolis or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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One of the oldest moving brands in the US, Bekins runs an agent-affiliate model similar to Allied, with interstate shipments booked under the Bekins registration and performed by affiliated agents.
Bekins Moving Solutions publishes its headquarters in Indianapolis, IN.
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 its headquarters in Indianapolis, IN.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Indiana. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Indianapolis.
Allied Van Lines operates one of the largest North American moving networks through agent-affiliates, and offers interstate and international household-goods moving. Full value protection is offered as the paid alternative to the default released value liability, as required of interstate carriers.
Allied Van Lines is headquartered elsewhere in IN. That does not by itself confirm an office in Indianapolis, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
Colonial Van Lines Inc files from 1441 SW 29th Avenue in Pompano Beach, Florida, active on the federal census with 25 power units, 25 drivers and an MCS-150 filed 21 March 2025. The licensing record carries motor carrier of household goods authority granted 31 March 2010 and motor carrier of property authority recorded as reinstated on 27 June 2025, both active at the time of reading; no broker authority is carried on this registration. The federal file records a Satisfactory safety rating dated 28 June 2021 alongside a compliance review dated 3 October 2012. A safety rating is a dated federal snapshot of the review that produced it, not a current assessment of the company. The company publishes this USDOT number and MC docket in its own website footer, which is how the registration and the brand were joined. Two further registrations filing from the same address, one under the identical legal name and one under a Texas corporate name, are disclosed separately as related registrations rather than merged into this record. The company states it was founded in 2003.
Colonial 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.
International Van Lines services overseas destinations in addition to US interstate work. What it is licensed to do federally is set out in the federal record on this page rather than described here.
International 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.
67 companies with a Indianapolis address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 22 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 22 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.
449 active registrants in Indianapolis tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 286 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 Indianapolis: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ACE VAN LINES INC
USDOT 49910 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC060848, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
SHAMROCK VAN LINES INC
USDOT 129614 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC115257, active as common carrier.
WHEATON VAN LINES INC, trading as WHEATON WORLD WIDE MOVING
USDOT 70719 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250-0800
It filed 767 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC087113, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
FMCSA SAFER snapshot for USDOT 70719Read our review of Wheaton World Wide Moving
TOWNE VAN LINES INC
USDOT 214717 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 18, 1982, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC033500, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
JOYCE VAN LINES INC
USDOT 247771 · 2525 N SHADELAND AVE UNIT 50 STE A-3, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46219
It filed 87 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 15, 1984, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC169755, active as common carrier and contract carrier and broker.
CROWN MOVING & STORAGE INC, trading as WHEATON MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 316629 · 8040 CASTLETON RD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250-2005
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 27, 1988, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC287481, active as common carrier.
CENTRAL VAN LINES INC
USDOT 442478 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 11, 1991, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC192246, active as common carrier.
ED SHERMAN MOVING STORAGE COMPANY INC, trading as SHERMAN MOVING & STORAGE CO.
USDOT 719392 · 990 E NATIONAL AVENUE, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46227
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 13, 1997, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC392645, active as common carrier.
GREEN LINE MOVING AND STORAGE OF INDIANAPOLIS LLC, trading as ALL MY SONS OF INDIANAPOLIS
USDOT 818918 · 2817 E 55TH PLACE SUITE 103, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46220
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on July 13, 1999, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC390391, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
STUDLEY MOVING AND STORAGE INC
USDOT 1099675 · 5902 E 34TH ST, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46218
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on February 24, 2003, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC465215.
CROWN MOVING AND STORAGE INC OF ILLINOIS
USDOT 1254524 · 8010 CASTLETON RD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250-0800
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 3, 2004, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC133500, active as common carrier.
PLANES MOVING AND STORAGE OF INDIANAPOLIS INC
USDOT 1415648 · 2635 PLANES DR, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46219
It filed 41 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 14, 2005, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC551348, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
BEKINS VAN LINES INC
USDOT 2256609 · 8010 CASTLETON ROAD, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on December 16, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC770031, active as common carrier.
FMCSA SAFER snapshot for USDOT 2256609Read our review of Bekins Moving Solutions
UNIQUE MOVERS STORAGE LLC
USDOT 2876438 · 5435 EMERSON WAY STE 340, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46226-1468
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on April 12, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC966482.
FRAZIER MOVING SERVICES LLC
USDOT 3092829 · 10635 SOUTHEASTERN AVE, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46239-1457
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on February 2, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1031749, active as common carrier.
LUCAS MOVING CO LLC
USDOT 3408190 · 441 WEST THOMPSON, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46217
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 12, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1098221.
SHAGGY MOVING LLC
USDOT 3445287 · 426 HARVARD PL, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46208
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 25, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1120069.
NATIONWIDE MOVING AND STORAGE LLC
USDOT 3652830 · 12125 E 65TH ST UNIT 36021, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46236
It filed 0 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 8, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1259743.
FAST TRACK MOVING AND STORAGE INC
USDOT 3775173 · 9465 COUNSELORS ROW SUITE 200-2825, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46240
It filed 0 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 2, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1349301.
EZPZ MOVING SERVICES LLC
USDOT 4003609 · 1925 RUNAWAY BAY DR APT D, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46224
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on December 28, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1505433.
ELITE AFFORDABLE MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4116059 · 5715 CHURCHMAN AVENUE SUITE K, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46203
It filed 5 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 11, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1636376.
LOVES MOVING AND STORAGE
USDOT 4370220 · 2346 S LYNHURST DRIVE SUITE E201 I, INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46241
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on March 3, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1711550, active as common 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 Indiana authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Indiana licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Indiana needs the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the Indiana Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier Services. Its rates sit in tariff filed with the Department of Revenue, which the carrier may not charge outside of.
Indiana does not publish a household goods authority lookup we have confirmed. Confirm an Indiana Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity with Motor Carrier Services on 317-615-7200, option 3 then option 1 for passenger and household goods.
Source: Indiana Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier Services, read 2026-08-11.
Peak demand across Indiana runs May–August. 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 Indianapolis. 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 Indianapolis, 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 Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis:
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 Indianapolis 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