The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 247 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Minneapolis, MN, and 64 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Minneapolis price measurement, only the Minnesota range on the Minnesota page. Moves that stay inside Minnesota are licensed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$95 to $145 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$2,800 to $6,600
Intrastate regulator
Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Company profiles shown
4
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Quick answer
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Minneapolis. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Minnesota, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: North Loop, Uptown, Northeast, Linden Hills, Loring Park.
How far is Minneapolis from the places people move to most?
Minneapolis to Chicago, IL is 410 driving miles, about 6 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 2 to 4 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your Minneapolis moving cost
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Minneapolis transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 40,451 returns moving out of Hennepin County, the county Minneapolis sits in, and 38,182 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 63,590 individuals leaving and 55,870 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Hennepin County were Ramsey County (6,020 returns), Anoka County (4,072 returns) and Dakota County (3,836 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Ramsey County (5,844 returns), Anoka County (3,320 returns) and Dakota County (3,217 returns).
These figures come from federal tax return data and cover all household moves, not only those using professional movers.
How many licensed moving companies are registered in Minneapolis?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 247 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Minneapolis, and 64 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Minneapolis. 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 Minneapolis may not.
Moving crews quoting Minneapolis work North Loop, Uptown, Northeast, Linden Hills, Loring Park and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Minneapolis
Movers working inside Minneapolis are licensed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Minnesota page.
Beltmann Group Incorporated, filed with the DBA Beltmann Relocation Group, holds its own federal registration and files 269 power units from Roseville, Minnesota. It has been trading since 1923 and operates as an agent of North American Van Lines, whose own USDOT number appears on Beltmann's site. The two registrations are separate, and the one that governs a Beltmann-contracted job is the agent's.
Why is this company shown here?
Beltmann Relocation Group is headquartered elsewhere in MN. That does not by itself confirm an office in Minneapolis, and no service claim is made here.
Piepho Moving & Storage, Inc. files from Highway 14 West in Rochester, Minnesota, active on the federal census with household goods and general freight cargo entries, eighteen power units, twenty-one drivers, a current MCS-150 filing and docket MC-133951 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain, so registrant and consumer-facing brand agree inside the federal data. The licensing record shows active common carrier authority and active contract carrier authority with property and household goods checked; the roles are reported separately rather than merged, and no broker authority is verified on this docket. The company is an Allied Van Lines agent; Allied holds its own separate federal registration and no Allied identifier is stored here or presented as Piepho's number. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 4 February 1997, following a compliance review dated 8 January 1997; that is a dated federal snapshot rather than a current assessment. The company states it has provided professional moving services since 1952.
Why is this company shown here?
Piepho Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in MN. That does not by itself confirm an office in Minneapolis, and no service claim is made here.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
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.
USDOT 614506Pompano Beach, FL2BR est. $2,900–$6,800
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.
Why is this company shown here?
Bekins Moving Solutions 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.
USDOT 2256609Indianapolis, IN2BR est. $3,000–$7,000
Which movers are federally registered in Minneapolis?
53 companies with a Minneapolis address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 17 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 17 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.
320 active registrants in Minneapolis tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 140 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 Minneapolis: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
360WOW MOVING LLC, trading as YOU MOVE ME
USDOT 2468749 · 630 HOOVER ST NE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55413
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 20, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1450163.
It filed 5 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 8, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1285395, active as common carrier.
LEOS MOVING AND STORAGE LLC, trading as LEOS MOVING
USDOT 2963379 · 2810 VIRGINIA AVE S, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55426
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on January 18, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC019963, active as common carrier.
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 2, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1107539, active as common carrier.
USDOT 4134991 · 705 N 42ND AVE, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55412
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 22, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1739901, 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.
Does a federal registration mean a Minnesota licence?
No. Federal registration and Minnesota authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Minnesota licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Minnesota needs the Household Goods Mover Permit from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations.
Minnesota does not publish a household goods permit lookup we have confirmed. Confirm a Minnesota Household Goods Mover Permit with the Office of Freight and Commercial Vehicle Operations on 651-215-6330.
Peak demand across Minnesota runs May–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 Minneapolis. 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:
Mid-month beats month-end. Leases and closings cluster at the turn of the month, so that is when crews are fully booked and least flexible.
Mid-week beats the weekend. Saturday is the single most requested moving day; a Tuesday or Wednesday competes with far fewer households for the same trucks.
Off-peak beats May–September. Outside the peak window, carriers are trying to keep crews working rather than turning jobs away.
Flexibility is the lever, not the calendar alone. On an interstate move, giving the carrier a pickup window of several days rather than one fixed date is usually worth more than any single date choice, because it lets them combine your shipment with another on the same lane.
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 Minneapolis, 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:
$10 to $20 per mover for a job of two hours or less.
$20 to $40 per mover for a local move under four hours.
$40 to $60 per mover for a full day, meaning six hours or longer.
These are a BestMovers.info editorial guideline, not a survey result. We hold no tipping survey for Minneapolis 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.
Where can you get free moving boxes in Minneapolis?
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 Minneapolis:
Liquor stores, which have the sturdiest small boxes with dividers
Bookshops, for small boxes rated for weight
Grocery stores, for produce boxes
Offices, for paper boxes with lids
Appliance and furniture retailers, for large flat cartons
Buy Nothing groups and Facebook Marketplace
Craigslist free listings
The U-Haul box exchange
Anyone in your building who has moved in recently
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.
There is no separate cost dataset for Minneapolis. Using the national estimate, a one-bedroom local move is estimated at $420–$930 and a two-bedroom local move at $630–$1,395, while a two-bedroom interstate move from Minneapolis is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Minneapolis?
Late May through August is the peak window in Minneapolis, with the heaviest volume around month-end weekends. Established companies commonly book out several weeks in advance during this period.
Should I get an in-home estimate or an online quote?
For local moves under 2,500 lb, an online or phone estimate is usually accurate. For interstate moves out of Minneapolis or 3+ bedroom households, request a video survey or in-home estimate so the binding price reflects your actual inventory.
What's the most reliable way to verify a Minneapolis mover?
Check the company's USDOT number on the FMCSA SAFER website, look at their BBB profile and current accreditation, and read recent reviews on Google and Yelp. Avoid any mover unwilling to share a USDOT number on request.
How long does a typical Minneapolis move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Minneapolis usually takes 3–5 hours with two movers. A 3-bedroom local move runs 7–10 hours, and most movers won't book a same-day move past 4 PM start time.
How we evaluate Minneapolis 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
