The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 152 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Portland, OR, and 87 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Portland price measurement, only the Oregon range on the Oregon page. Moves that stay inside Oregon are licensed by the Oregon Department of Transportation, Commerce and Compliance Division. Wet season (October, April) means tarp-and-pad surcharges on outdoor carries; PBOT moving-truck reservations are free but require 5 business days notice.
Key facts
Local rate, two movers
$100 to $150 per hour
2-bedroom interstate
$3,000 to $7,000
Intrastate regulator
Oregon Department of Transportation, Commerce and Compliance Division
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 Portland. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Oregon, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Pearl District, Alberta Arts, Mississippi Ave, Hawthorne, Sellwood, St. Johns.
How far is Portland from the places people move to most?
Portland to Seattle, WA is 175 driving miles, about 3 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 1 to 3 days.
Portland to Los Angeles, CA is 965 driving miles, about 14 hours behind the wheel, with a typical transit of 3 to 7 days.
Driving distances and transit windows from the routes dataset; transit days are carrier delivery spreads, not guarantees.
Estimate your Portland 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 Portland transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 44,017 returns moving out of Clackamas County, Multnomah County and Washington County, the counties Portland sits in, and 41,095 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 69,216 individuals leaving and 59,288 arriving.
Portland spans 3 counties, so these figures cover all of them: Clackamas County, Multnomah County and Washington County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Portland.
The counties receiving the most households from Clackamas County, Multnomah County and Washington County were Clark County, WA (4,978 returns), Marion County (1,976 returns) and King County, WA (1,644 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Clark County, WA (3,298 returns), Marion County (1,880 returns) and Los Angeles County, CA (1,626 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 Portland?
The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 152 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Portland, and 87 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Portland. 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 Portland may not.
Moving crews quoting Portland work Pearl District, Alberta Arts, Mississippi Ave, Hawthorne, Sellwood, St. Johns and the surrounding areas.
Who licenses movers operating in Portland
Movers working inside Portland are licensed by the Oregon Department of Transportation, Commerce and Compliance Division, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Oregon page.
Lile has served Pacific Northwest customers since 1959 and today files federally as Lile International Companies Inc at 8060 SW Pfaffle St in Tigard, Oregon, the corporate address published on its own site, with household goods and general freight cargo entries and household goods authority on the licensing record. The census reports one power unit and one driver against that registration, which is the shape of an agent operation whose long hauls travel on van-line equipment. A second Oregon registration under the same name holds no household goods authority and no trucks, and an older Tigard filing is inactive, so neither is presented here. Interstate work runs inside the northAmerican Van Lines network under that van line's own separate registration.
Why is this company shown here?
Lile Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in OR. That does not by itself confirm an office in Portland, and no service claim is made here.
O'Neill Transfer & Storage files from the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon under its own federal registration, carrying docket MC-111617. The registration is the company's own: the corporate registration of Wheaton Van Lines is a separate federal record belonging to a separate registrant, and it is not stored here even though third-party directories have attached the van line's corporate USDOT to this brand. That is a directory error and it is not repeated. The company states first-party that it is a Wheaton agency; an agency relationship is recorded as a relationship and the van line's identifiers stay outside this record. No federal safety rating is on file, which is neither a positive nor a negative signal. The company states first-party that it has served the region since 1920. A separate first-party phrase describing more than a hundred years of service is a less precise statement of the same history rather than a competing year, so it is not recorded as a source conflict and the founding year is published as stated.
Why is this company shown here?
O'Neill Transfer & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in OR. That does not by itself confirm an office in Portland, 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 Portland?
51 companies with a Portland address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 23 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 23 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.
184 active registrants in Portland tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 108 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 Portland: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ALL AMERICA MOVING INC
USDOT 880787 · 701 SE WOODWARD, PORTLAND, OR 97202
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 17, 2000, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC307396, active as common carrier.
USDOT 945885 · 4316 S W BERNARD DR, PORTLAND, OR 97239
It filed 10 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 9, 2001, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC434109, active as common carrier.
USDOT 1031849 · 3055 N W YEON AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97210
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 31, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC434102, active as common carrier.
USDOT 1304320 · 8700 NE COLUMBIA CT, PORTLAND, OR 97220
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on November 15, 2004, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC622604, active as common carrier.
USDOT 1598972 · 5107 NE 158TH AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97230
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 23, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC591521, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
USDOT 1863079 · 66 SE MORRISON ST, PORTLAND, OR 97214
It filed 100 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 10, 2009, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC722865, active as common carrier and broker.
USDOT 2273603 · 9901 SE PINE ST, PORTLAND, OR 97216
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 15, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC888598, active as common carrier.
USDOT 2318726 · 3620 NW ST HELENS RD, PORTLAND, OR 97210
It filed 11 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 24, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC007797, active as common carrier.
USDOT 2366489 · 3439 NE SANDY BLVD SUITE 263, PORTLAND, OR 97232
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on December 28, 2012, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC941300, active as common carrier.
SUDDATH RELOCATION SYSTEMS OF OREGON LLC, trading as SUDDATH MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 2482348 · 9611 NE SUNDERLAND AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97211
It filed 29 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 7, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC857396, active as broker.
USDOT 2899598 · 13446 NE WHITAKER WAY, PORTLAND, OR 97230-1122
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 12, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1633715, active as common carrier.
PTOWN MOVERS LLC, trading as SKINNYWIMP MOVING CO BEAVERTON
USDOT 3043101 · 5201 SW WESTGATE DR UNIT#A206, PORTLAND, OR 97221
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 29, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC064471, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3171524 · 618 NE STANTON ST, PORTLAND, OR 97212-3117
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 9, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1240711, active as common carrier.
ALL MY SONS OF SALEM LLC, trading as ALL MY SONS MOVING & STORAGE OF NORTH PORTLAND
USDOT 3181409 · 10821 N LOMBARD, PORTLAND, OR 97203
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on August 30, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC126631, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3283975 · 15120 NE CLACKAMAS ST, PORTLAND, OR 97230
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 7, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1038734, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3493587 · 5932 SE EQUESTRIAN DR, PORTLAND, OR 97236
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 24, 2020, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1150649, active as common carrier.
USDOT 3617767 · 6800 NE 59TH PL UNIT 126, PORTLAND, OR 97218
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 21, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1640466, 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 Oregon licence?
No. Federal registration and Oregon authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Oregon licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Oregon needs the Oregon Intrastate Certificate to Transport Household Goods from the Oregon Department of Transportation, Commerce and Compliance Division.
Peak demand across Oregon 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 Portland. 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 Portland, 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 Portland 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 Portland?
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 Portland:
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 Portland. 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 Portland is estimated at $3,000–$7,000. Final price depends on distance, packing services, and date.
When is the busiest moving season in Portland?
Late May through August is the peak window in Portland, 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 Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland move take?
A 1-bedroom local move in Portland 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 Portland 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
