The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 45 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Corpus Christi, TX, and 5 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Corpus Christi price measurement, only the Texas range on the Texas page. Moves that stay inside Texas are licensed by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Division.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Corpus Christi. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Texas, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Downtown, Padre Island, Calallen, Flour Bluff.
Researched and written by Grant Holloway · Reviewed by Brittany Evans · Last reviewed August 2026
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Corpus Christi is the Texas statewide range, and it is published in full on the Texas page.
Get a personalized estimate before any sales call. Editorial estimate based on broader national moving-cost data; BestMovers.info does not maintain a separate Corpus Christi transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 9,992 returns moving out of Aransas County, Kleberg County, Nueces County and San Patricio County, the counties Corpus Christi sits in, and 9,286 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 17,795 individuals leaving and 16,785 arriving.
Corpus Christi spans 4 counties, so these figures cover all of them: Aransas County, Kleberg County, Nueces County and San Patricio County; returns moving between those counties are removed rather than counted as moves out of Corpus Christi.
The counties receiving the most households from Aransas County, Kleberg County, Nueces County and San Patricio County were Bexar County (1,138 returns), Harris County (644 returns) and Travis County (383 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Bexar County (801 returns), Harris County (534 returns) and Jim Wells County (302 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 45 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Corpus Christi, and 5 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Corpus Christi. 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 Corpus Christi may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Corpus Christi work Downtown, Padre Island, Calallen, Flour Bluff and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Corpus Christi are licensed by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Division, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Texas page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Texas. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Corpus Christi.
Large national footprint with 80+ branches but uneven customer satisfaction across markets. Get the all-in price (including fuel and equipment fees) in writing before booking.
All My Sons Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in TX. That does not by itself confirm an office in Corpus Christi, and no service claim is made here.
Global mover with strong international corporate-relocation business. Domestic US moves are available but not the primary focus.
Crown Relocations is headquartered elsewhere in TX. That does not by itself confirm an office in Corpus Christi, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
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.
6 companies with a Corpus Christi address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 4 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 4 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.
57 active registrants in Corpus Christi tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 23 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 Corpus Christi: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
ALL MY SONS MOVING & STORAGE OF CORPUS CHRISTI LLC
USDOT 1645783 · 210 N BROWNLEE BLVD, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78401
It filed 5 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 17, 2007, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC733947, active as common carrier.
TEN PLUS ONE INC, trading as TWO MEN AND A TRUCK
USDOT 2483255 · 1066 S PADRE ISLAND DR, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78416
It filed 6 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 11, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC862591, active as common carrier.
TOP NOTCH MOVERS LLC
USDOT 2547963 · 3801 APOLLO RD, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78413
It filed 13 power units, registered with the FMCSA on October 7, 2014, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC090025.
MARK MORIN, trading as ABOVE ALL THE REST MOVING
USDOT 2864678 · 7469 SKYKING DR, CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78412
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on March 11, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC959873.
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 Texas authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Texas licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Texas needs the TxDMV motor carrier certificate of registration from the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Division.
Texas publishes carrier records through the TxDMV Truck Stop motor carrier lookup; confirm a registration by name or USDOT number there, or by calling the consumer helpline.
Source: Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Division, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across Texas runs October–April. 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 Corpus Christi. 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 Corpus Christi, 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 Corpus Christi 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 Corpus Christi:
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 Corpus Christi 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