The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 94 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Kansas City, MO, and 51 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Kansas City price measurement, only the Missouri range on the Missouri page. Moves that stay inside Missouri are licensed by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services. Metro spans two states (MO/KS); confirm whether your move counts as intrastate or interstate before getting quotes.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Kansas City. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Missouri, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Crossroads, Westport, Brookside, Plaza, River Market.
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Kansas City is the Missouri statewide range, and it is published in full on the Missouri page.
The Kansas City metro sits in two states, so which agency governs your move depends on where both addresses are. A move that stays inside one state is intrastate and is governed by that state's agency. A move that crosses the state line inside the Kansas City metro is an interstate move under federal FMCSA authority, however short it is.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Kansas City transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 24,117 returns moving out of Cass County, Clay County, Jackson County and Platte County, the counties Kansas City sits in, and 26,312 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 39,523 individuals leaving and 42,464 arriving.
Kansas City spans 4 counties, so these figures cover all of them: Cass County, Clay County, Jackson County and Platte County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Kansas City.
The counties receiving the most households from Cass County, Clay County, Jackson County and Platte County were Johnson County, KS (4,566 returns), Wyandotte County, KS (1,407 returns) and Johnson County (495 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Johnson County, KS (4,913 returns), Wyandotte County, KS (1,615 returns) and Johnson County (504 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 94 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Kansas City, and 51 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Kansas City. 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 Kansas City may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Kansas City work Crossroads, Westport, Brookside, Plaza, River Market and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Kansas City are licensed by the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Missouri page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Missouri. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Kansas City.
United Van Lines agent serving the St Louis and Kansas City corridors. Long history and steady performance in the Midwest.
Cord Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in MO. That does not by itself confirm an office in Kansas City, and no service claim is made here.
Mayflower Transit is the second large UniGroup brand alongside United Van Lines and runs full-service interstate moves through an agent network under its own federal registration.
Mayflower Transit is headquartered elsewhere in MO. That does not by itself confirm an office in Kansas City, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
Budd Van Lines Inc is an independent nationwide carrier rather than an agent of a national van line, which is rare at this size: the federal census records 124 power units and 102 drivers filed from Somerset, New Jersey. Because the company holds its own active common and contract authority with household goods on the licensing record and no broker authority, the entity you contract with is the entity that hauls the shipment. The company's own history pages date the business to 1975.
Budd 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.
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.
36 companies with a Kansas City address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 18 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 18 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.
163 active registrants in Kansas City tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 107 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 Kansas City: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
SUPERIOR MOVING SERVICE INC, trading as SUPERIOR MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 69086 · 3177 MERCIER, KANSAS CITY, MO 64111
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC070442, active as contract carrier.
OCONNORS MOVING LLC
USDOT 1614566 · 632 WEST DARTMOUTH ROAD, KANSAS CITY, MO 64113
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on March 6, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC588369, active as common carrier.
ALL MY SONS MOVING & STORAGE OF KANSAS LLC
USDOT 1980643 · 7084 UNIVERSAL AVENUE, KANSAS CITY, MO 64120
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 5, 2010, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC701678, active as common carrier.
BRIAN WALTON, trading as ASSISTED MOVING OF KANSAS CITY
USDOT 2160310 · 10901-A HICKMAN MILLS DR, KANSAS CITY, MO 64137
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 3, 2011, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC750811, active as common carrier.
GOD'S MOVERS LLC
USDOT 2417601 · 11815 E 60TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64133
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 26, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC946280, active as common carrier.
CITA VAN LINES INC
USDOT 2957415 · 2357 EAST FRONT STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO 64120
It filed 12 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 28, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC002708, active as common carrier.
CENTURION MOVING & STORAGE LLC
USDOT 3015288 · 75 DESIGN DR, KANSAS CITY, MO 64116
It filed 15 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 6, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC031370.
TMT KC LLC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
USDOT 3099844 · 9301-A E 47TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64133
It filed 21 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 21, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC076862, active as common carrier.
COURTESY MOVERS LLC
USDOT 3241776 · 9407 N FARLEY COURT, KANSAS CITY, MO 64157
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on February 5, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1018373, active as common carrier.
POINT BLANK MOVING LLC
USDOT 3406771 · 8570 N HICKORY ST APT 409, KANSAS CITY, MO 64155
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 10, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1097514, active as common carrier.
BLUE DIAMOND MOVERS INC
USDOT 3828829 · 1230 TANEY STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO 64116
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 24, 2022, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1388171.
COLONIAL VAN LINES INC
USDOT 4094039 · 107 W 9TH ST STE 533, KANSAS CITY, MO 64105
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 22, 2023, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1560259, active as common carrier.
REDDEN MOVING LLC, trading as SHOW ME MOVERS
USDOT 4274066 · 4639 NW 78TH STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO 64151
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on July 29, 2024, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1660351, active as common carrier.
UPWARD MOVING LLC
USDOT 4415345 · 4300 E 113TH ST, KANSAS CITY, MO 64137
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 27, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1735111, active as common carrier.
JANSEN MOVING LLC
USDOT 4430316 · 10728 FREMONT AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO 64134
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 26, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1743091.
PZ HOLDINGS INC, trading as PINK ZEBRA MOVING OF KANSAS CITY, MO
USDOT 4435124 · 110 NE HARLEM RD, KANSAS CITY, MO 64116
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on July 8, 2025, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1745651, active as common carrier.
MOVING FRIENDS AND CLEANING LLC
USDOT 4578382 · 7239 BROOKLYN AVE, KANSAS CITY, MO 64132
It filed 0 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 5, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1822110.
APLANET MOVERS LLC
USDOT 4582124 · 9115 WORNALL RD, KANSAS CITY, MO 64114
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 13, 2026, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1824129.
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 Missouri authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Missouri licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Missouri needs the Intrastate Household Goods Carrier Operating Authority, issued as a certificate by the State Highways and Transportation Commission from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services. Its rates sit in household Goods Tariff Circular No. 1-2013, filed with the commission.
Missouri publishes a list of Authorized Household Goods Carriers through MoDOT Motor Carrier Services. Confirm a Missouri mover against that list, or by calling Motor Carrier Services on 1-866-831-6277.
Source: Missouri Department of Transportation, Motor Carrier Services, read 2026-08-11.
Peak demand across Missouri 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 Kansas City. 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 Kansas City, 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 Kansas City 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 Kansas City:
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 Kansas City 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