Movers in New Hampshire charge about $100 to $150 per hour for a two-person crew on local jobs, and a two-bedroom interstate move from New Hampshire is estimated at $2,800 to $6,500. Intrastate movers in New Hampshire are licensed by the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau, while any company moving household goods across state lines must hold FMCSA operating authority. Peak demand runs May to September, when quotes sit at the top of those ranges. BestMovers.info compares 182 licensed carriers serving New Hampshire, with pricing data as of May 2026.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$100 to $150 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$2,800 to $6,500
Intrastate regulator
New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau
Interstate licensing
FMCSA USDOT and MC authority
Peak season
May–September
Cities covered
0
Carriers compared
182
Pricing data as of
May 2026
Bottom line
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What moving in New Hampshire actually looks like
The Northeast calendar sets New Hampshire pricing: May–September is peak, November–March is the discount window, and the gap between them is 15% to 25% on an identical job.
Two crew members at standard rates run roughly $125/hr in most of the state, with downtown high-rise jobs and gated communities pulling toward the upper end. A typical 2-bedroom interstate move out of New Hampshire settles around $4,650, though distance and packing services swing that meaningfully.
Local quirks worth pricing in: tight street access, frequent walk-ups, building COIs, and a September lease-turnover spike. None of these are dealbreakers, but they show up in the final bill if you don't ask about them upfront.
Verification in New Hampshire runs through the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau. A common or contract carrier transporting household goods for hire between points in New Hampshire holds a certificate or permit issued by the Department of Safety under RSA 359-T, applied for on the department's New Household Goods Carrier Operations form. The authorisation is a New Hampshire household goods carrier certificate or permit. Interstate carriers additionally need active FMCSA authority, which you can check on SAFER by USDOT number.
Pay by card, never cash, so a disputed charge has a route back through the issuer.
New Hampshire runs its heaviest volume May–September, and its metro areas feed most of that demand out of and around Concord. Population sits near 1.4 million, which is what sets how deep the local crew pool actually is in November–March.
How we select movers for this state
Selection for New Hampshire starts from licensing, not marketing. A company is listed here when it is headquartered in New Hampshire or its record shows coverage of the state, and when we can describe it from sourced fields: federal registration, operating authority, founding year, and service coverage. We publish no numeric score and rank nobody first.
Which company suits your move is a question of scope and date, not of a score: BestMovers.info publishes no numeric score, star rating or ranked order. The pricing model behind the estimates on this page is dated May 2026.
Pricing
New Hampshire moving cost snapshot
Two movers, ground-floor access, standard packing. Peak season in New Hampshire is May–September.
Home size
Local move
Interstate move
Studio
$300–$750
$1,540–$3,900
1 Bedroom
$400–$900
$2,100–$5,070
2 Bedroom
$600–$1,350
$2,800–$6,500
3 Bedroom
$800–$1,800
$4,060–$10,075
4 Bedroom
$1,100–$2,400
$5,460–$13,975
5+ Bedroom
$1,400–$3,000
$6,720–$17,550
How many licensed moving companies are registered in New Hampshire?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 178 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in New Hampshire, and 118 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists a New Hampshire address, which is not the same as the number of companies that will serve a move in New Hampshire. An interstate move into or out of New Hampshire can be performed by a carrier registered in any state.
How many households move out of New Hampshire each year?
IRS tax return data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 24,830 returns moving out of New Hampshire to another state, and 26,876 moving in, a net gain of 2,046 returns. A return approximates a household rather than a person. The same filings cover 37,456 individuals leaving and 41,506 arriving.
The states receiving the most New Hampshire households were Massachusetts (6,594 returns), Florida (2,696 returns) and Maine (2,595 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Massachusetts (10,603 returns), Maine (1,972 returns) and Florida (1,842 returns). These figures count all filers who changed address, not only those who hired a moving company.
New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau regulates household goods movers operating inside New Hampshire, and sits within the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Division of Administration. Movers are licensed under RSA 359-T, Carriage of Household Goods for Hire by Motor Vehicle. The operating rules sit in N.H. Admin. Code Saf-C 4600, Carriage of Household Goods by Motor Vehicles. Moves crossing the New Hampshire state line fall under the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration instead, a separate authorisation with separate requirements.
What authorisation must a New Hampshire mover hold?
A mover doing work inside New Hampshire must hold the New Hampshire household goods carrier certificate or permit, issued by New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau. It exists specifically for household goods movers, whatever its title. The requirement sits in RSA 359-T, Carriage of Household Goods for Hire by Motor Vehicle. An interstate carrier holding only a federal USDOT number is not authorised for New Hampshire intrastate work by that number alone.
How can I verify a New Hampshire mover before booking?
New Hampshire moved household goods carriers to the Department of Safety in 2023 and the Road Toll Bureau's published licensee lists cover fuel distributors and transporters, not movers, so a mover's certificate is confirmed with the bureau rather than looked up online. For a move leaving New Hampshire, check the company's USDOT record in FMCSA SAFER as well. Holding one authorisation does not imply the other.
How do I file a complaint against a New Hampshire mover?
Complaints about a move inside New Hampshire go to New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau through New Hampshire Department of Justice Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau complaint, New Hampshire Department of Safety feedback form. A complaint about a move that crossed the New Hampshire state line goes to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration through the National Consumer Complaint Database instead.
The New Hampshire Department of Safety, and not since long. Responsibility for household goods movers in New Hampshire moved from the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission to the New Hampshire Department of Safety with effect from 1 January 2023. Guidance written before that date names the earlier agency, so a page telling you to contact the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission about a New Hampshire mover is out of date rather than wrong about the state.
The Department of Safety, and only since 1 January 2023. New Hampshire repealed RSA 375-A, the public utilities chapter under which the Public Utilities Commission oversaw household goods carriers, and re-enacted the subject as RSA 359-T under trade and commerce, whose first section states that department means the department of safety. Guidance written before 2023 sends a New Hampshire consumer to the Public Utilities Commission, which no longer runs the programme.
What does a New Hampshire mover have to file each year?
New Hampshire keeps a live paperwork obligation on a mover after it is authorised. A carrier applies on form DSAD 5-H with the fee set by RSA 359-T, transfers its operating authority on form DSAD 5-HT, and files an annual report on form DSAD 5-HAR by 1 July each year. A mover's authority in New Hampshire can therefore lapse on a missed annual report rather than on anything a customer would see.
What does New Hampshire require of a permitted mover?
New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau publishes what applies to a company moving household goods in New Hampshire. Each of the following comes from the agency's own pages:
New Hampshire registers a household goods carrier's vehicles under its own rule part, Saf-C 4606, separately from the carrier's certificate.
The 2022 Act that moved the programme, HB 207-FN, is titled an Act repealing the regulation of household goods carriers, and it took effect on 1 January 2023.
The Public Utilities Commission's rule filing history still lists its superseded household goods rule, which is why old New Hampshire references point at that agency.
What is different about an interstate move from New Hampshire?
Moves crossing a state line are authorised by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration under a USDOT number and interstate household goods operating authority. A New Hampshire state licence does not cover that work, and the federal record is the one to check: confirm the USDOT number is active and authorised for household goods before paying a deposit.
What should you check before moving out of New Hampshire?
A move that leaves New Hampshire is an interstate move and falls under federal authority, so the company needs active operating authority for household goods rather than only a New Hampshire licence. A move that stays inside New Hampshire is different: it is regulated by New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau, and the company needs New Hampshire household goods carrier certificate or permit. Check which kind of move you are booking before you compare quotes, because the two are verified in different places.
What drives New Hampshire moving prices up or down
Distance — local moves under 50 miles are billed hourly; cross-state jobs are billed by weight + mileage.
Home size — going from a 1-bedroom to a 3-bedroom roughly doubles crew time and truck space.
Stairs and access — every flight above the first commonly adds $25–$100; long carries from truck to door add similarly.
Packing — full-pack service usually adds 30–45% to a base move; partial packing (kitchen + fragiles only) adds 10–20%.
Season — book a Saturday move in late June and expect to pay 20–30% more than the same job mid-week in February.
Specialty items — pianos, gun safes, large aquariums, and oversized art each carry their own line item.
New Hampshire season — quotes inside May–September run at the top of the $100–$150 hourly band; November–March quotes sit near the bottom.
Fuel surcharge — interstate quotes float with diesel pricing, so a quote held for weeks may be re-priced.
New Hampshire licensing — New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau handles intrastate oversight, which changes what paperwork you can demand before deposit.
Full-service, labor-only, container, or rental truck
For a 1-bedroom apartment moving across town, a labor-only crew (you rent the truck, they load) is the cheapest option that still beats calling friends. In New Hampshire metros that runs about $300 to $600 for two movers over three to four hours.
Choose full service when the inventory is large, the access is bad, or the destination is out of state. The cost sits at two to three times labor-only and includes the truck, padding, and fuel that labor-only leaves to you.
Portable containers sit between the two on price. Providers such as PODS, U-Pack, and 1-800-PACK-RAT drop a unit at the curb. You load on your schedule, the company drives. On a New Hampshire interstate move the container route is usually cheaper than a full-service van line, because you are supplying the loading labor the carrier would otherwise charge for. Bestmovers.info holds no container rates, so price the provider quote for your own lane and dates. The catch is the delivery window, which is set by the provider rather than promised to you, and limited recourse for damage during loading, since you packed it.
Companies
Moving Companies Based in New Hampshire
These companies have a verified headquarters or documented company location in New Hampshire. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
College Bound Movers LLC files from Continental Boulevard in Merrimack, New Hampshire, active on the federal census with a household goods classification, four power units, nine drivers and docket MC-301665 on the registration. The filed contact email uses the company's own domain and the company publishes the same registration and docket numbers itself, so the consumer-facing brand and the federal registrant are the same identity read from two sources. No van-line affiliation was established in research and none is asserted here. FMCSA safety rating on file: Satisfactory, dated 7 March 2008, following a compliance review dated 5 March 2008; that is a dated federal snapshot and not a current safety score or a recommendation. The company states it has moved New Hampshire and New England since 1991.
Why is this company shown here?
College Bound Movers is headquartered in New Hampshire according to its published company location.
McLaughlin Transportation Systems Inc files from Nashua, New Hampshire, active on the federal census with ten power units and eight drivers, and carries docket MC-63020 on the registration. The operating-authority presentation read for this registration shows three roles: motor carrier of household goods, motor carrier of property and broker of household goods. Property broker authority was not verified and is not inferred. The filed address is in New Hampshire while the company publishes an operating footprint across New Hampshire and Massachusetts; that is a difference between a filing address and a published service area, not a contradiction. No federal safety rating was located in the records reviewed. A third-party aggregator asserting a recent Satisfactory rating was read during verification and is not published here: an aggregator is not the federal file. The company states first-party that it is an agent of Mayflower Transit; Mayflower is a separate registrant and its corporate identifiers are recorded as van-line identifiers rather than stored on this record. The company states first-party that it was founded in 1936.
Why is this company shown here?
McLaughlin Transportation Systems is headquartered in New Hampshire according to its published company location.
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.
Why is this company shown here?
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.
USDOT 1434373Pompano Beach, FL2BR est. $2,200–$6,500
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.
Why is this company shown 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.
USDOT 2293832Coral Springs, FL2BR est. $2,700–$6,400
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.
Why is this company shown here?
Mayflower Transit 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.
North American Van Lines is part of SIRVA and moves interstate household goods through an agent-affiliate network. The federal registration shown here belongs to the van line, not to the local agent that loads the truck.
Why is this company shown here?
North 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.
United Van Lines is the largest brand under UniGroup and publishes the annual National Movers Study. It offers shipment tracking and a published claims process; we hold no dataset that compares its claims outcomes with other carriers.
Why is this company shown here?
United 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.
A demand for cash deposit over $100 before move day. Reputable carriers bill on or after delivery.
A quote without a USDOT number on the paperwork. No USDOT means no FMCSA accountability if something goes wrong.
A "binding" estimate with no inventory list attached. Without inventory, the binding part is meaningless.
Refusal to do a video survey or in-home estimate for moves over 5,000 lb.
A blank Bill of Lading on move day. Sign nothing blank. Ever.
A name change in the last 12 months on the FMCSA record. It often signals a previous carrier under a complaint cloud.
No New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau credential on an intrastate New Hampshire job. State-licensed work requires it, and the agency publishes the register.
An hourly quote far under $100 in New Hampshire. Below-market rates on a local job usually reappear as stair, carry, or materials charges on the invoice.
An eight-week timeline that actually works in New Hampshire
Eight weeks out: get three written quotes. Two should be in-home or video surveys. One online quote is fine for comparison only — it will rarely be the binding number.
Six weeks out: book the carrier. Ask for binding-not-to-exceed pricing in writing. Confirm valuation coverage (released vs. full-value protection — there is a real difference if a TV gets dropped).
Four weeks out: order packing supplies if you're self-packing. Boxes go on sale at U-Haul and Home Depot in late winter and late summer.
Two weeks out: confirm parking, building COIs, and elevator reservations at both ends. New Hampshire buildings vary wildly here — some need 72 hours notice, some 30 days.
One week out: pack a personal essentials box (medications, chargers, three days of clothes, toilet paper, coffee, scissors, the lease/closing folder) and keep it with you, not on the truck.
Move day: walk the truck before driver pulls away. Sign the Bill of Lading only after the inventory list matches. First week in the new place, file any damage claim within nine months — that's the federal interstate window.
Where in New Hampshire you're moving matters
New Hampshire pricing varies by metro. Downtown cores with high-rise residential typically run 10–20% above the state median because of COI requirements, freight elevator wait time, and tighter parking. Suburban single-family moves usually land near the median. Rural pickups outside metro service areas often add a per-mile travel fee from the nearest depot.
Frequently asked questions
How much do movers cost in New Hampshire?
Local moves in New Hampshire are estimated at $315–$2,480 depending on home size, while an interstate move out of New Hampshire is estimated at $3,000–$7,000 for a two-bedroom household. Distance, packing services, and the time of year all shift those numbers.
When is the cheapest time to move in New Hampshire?
October through April is generally the cheapest window in New Hampshire — most movers cut rates 15–25% outside the May-to-September peak. Mid-month, mid-week pickups give the biggest discounts.
Are moving companies in New Hampshire licensed and insured?
All interstate moving companies must register with the FMCSA and carry a USDOT number. New Hampshire also requires intrastate movers to register with the state — verify any quote against the FMCSA SAFER tool before signing.
Should I tip movers in New Hampshire?
Tipping is customary but not required. A typical tip in New Hampshire is $20–$40 per mover for a half-day local job, or $50–$100 per mover for a full day or long-distance move.
How far in advance should I book a mover in New Hampshire?
Book 4–6 weeks ahead for moves between May and September. For off-peak fall and winter moves in New Hampshire, two weeks is usually enough notice.
What's the difference between binding and non-binding estimates?
A binding estimate locks in your price based on the inventory at the time of the survey — the mover can't charge more on move day for the same items. Non-binding estimates can change based on actual weight or volume. For NH interstate moves, request binding-not-to-exceed quotes whenever possible.
Who licenses movers in New Hampshire
Intrastate household-goods movers in New Hampshire are licensed by the New Hampshire Department of Safety, Road Toll Bureau. A common or contract carrier transporting household goods for hire between points in New Hampshire holds a certificate or permit issued by the Department of Safety under RSA 359-T, applied for on the department's New Household Goods Carrier Operations form. The authorisation is a New Hampshire household goods carrier certificate or permit.
How we evaluate moving companies: we verify federal registration and operating authority against FMCSA records, record carrier or broker classification, note state licensing where a state regulator publishes it, and state the limits of what we could source. No numeric score, star rating or ranked order is produced from those checks. Read full methodology
