The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 13 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Cary, NC, and 3 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Cary price measurement, only the North Carolina range on the North Carolina page. Moves that stay inside North Carolina are licensed by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
Moving On Up is based in Cary. Companies below are grouped by where they are documented to be located: companies based in or near Cary, companies based elsewhere in North Carolina, and movers that publish nationwide service. No numeric ranking is applied.
Common service neighborhoods: Downtown, Preston, Amberly, Stonewater.
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Cary is the North Carolina statewide range, and it is published in full on the North Carolina page.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 37,217 returns moving out of Chatham County and Wake County, the counties Cary sits in, and 41,732 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 61,684 individuals leaving and 70,354 arriving.
Cary spans 2 counties, so these figures cover all of them: Chatham County and Wake County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Cary.
The counties receiving the most households from Chatham County and Wake County were Durham County (3,639 returns), Johnston County (3,431 returns) and Harnett County (1,473 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Durham County (3,868 returns), Johnston County (2,022 returns) and Orange County (1,071 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 13 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Cary, and 3 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Cary. 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 Cary may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Cary work Downtown, Preston, Amberly, Stonewater and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Cary are licensed by the North Carolina Utilities Commission, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the North Carolina page.
These companies have a documented headquarters or company location in Cary or its metro. Placement is based on documented location information, not a numeric ranking.
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Triangle-area mover with experience in Cary, Apex, and Raleigh corporate-relocation traffic. Binding hourly quotes.
Moving On Up publishes its headquarters in Cary, NC.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in North Carolina. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Cary.
PACK-RAT's containers are all-steel rather than wood-and-fabric, which holds up better to weather and rough handling. Pricing tracks closely to PODS.
1-800-PACK-RAT is headquartered elsewhere in NC. That does not by itself confirm an office in Cary, and no service claim is made here.
Hilldrup branch serving the Carolinas with strong banking-corridor relocation business. Reliable on-time performance and claims handling.
Hilldrup Charlotte is headquartered elsewhere in NC. That does not by itself confirm an office in Cary, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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 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.
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.
3 companies with a Cary address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 3 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 3 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.
21 active registrants in Cary tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 14 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 Cary: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
JOY J HALL, trading as JOYFUL MOVERS
USDOT 2428777 · 106 TAPESTRY TER, CARY, NC 27511
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 12, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC837071.
PANNELL'S 1ST TEAM MOVING & DELIVERY LLC, trading as PANNELL'S 1ST TEAM MOVING
USDOT 3472118 · 705 MADISON AVE, CARY, NC 27513
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 18, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1136763.
SAFE & SOUND MOVING COMPANY LLC
USDOT 3639426 · 120 CENTREWEST CT, CARY, NC 27513
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 20, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1249996.
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 North Carolina authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a North Carolina licence or permit.
A mover operating inside North Carolina needs the Household goods Certificate (C-number) from the North Carolina Utilities Commission. Its rates sit in maximum Rate Tariff issued by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.
North Carolina publishes no interactive lookup. The Commission posts a static PDF list of certificated carriers at https://www.ncuc.net/documents/carriers.pdf, and confirms status by phone.
Source: North Carolina Utilities Commission, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across North Carolina 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 Cary. 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 Cary, 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 Cary 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 Cary:
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 Cary 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