The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 54 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Norfolk, VA, and 27 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Norfolk price measurement, only the Virginia range on the Virginia page. Moves that stay inside Virginia are licensed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services.
We do not yet hold a company profile documented as based in Norfolk. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Virginia, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Ghent, Downtown, Ocean View, Larchmont.
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The only moving cost range BestMovers.info holds for Norfolk is the Virginia statewide range, and it is published in full on the Virginia page.
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IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 12,445 returns moving out of Norfolk city, the county Norfolk sits in, and 11,882 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 21,697 individuals leaving and 19,372 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Norfolk city were Virginia Beach city (2,578 returns), Chesapeake city (1,234 returns) and Portsmouth city (581 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Virginia Beach city (2,544 returns), Chesapeake city (1,059 returns) and Portsmouth city (505 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 54 registrants carrying household goods whose physical address is in Norfolk, and 27 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Norfolk. 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 Norfolk may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Norfolk work Ghent, Downtown, Ocean View, Larchmont and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Norfolk are licensed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services, whose licence, lookup route and complaint channel are set out on the Virginia page.
These companies are headquartered elsewhere in Virginia. Their inclusion here does not by itself confirm a local office in Norfolk.
Northern Virginia mover with strong federal-government and corporate relocation operations. Reliable choice for DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland moves.
Able Moving & Storage is headquartered elsewhere in VA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Norfolk, and no service claim is made here.
DC-area mover with experience in military PCS, federal-government, and corporate relocations.
All American Relocation Group is headquartered elsewhere in VA. That does not by itself confirm an office in Norfolk, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
Wheaton World Wide Moving shares a parent company with Bekins and moves interstate household goods through an agent network under its own federal registration.
Wheaton World Wide Moving 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.
21 companies with a Norfolk address on their federal registration hold a granted household goods authority from the FMCSA, and 11 of those identify as a moving business in their legal or trade name. The 11 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.
68 active registrants in Norfolk tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 43 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 Norfolk: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
A & E MOVING AND STORAGE INC, trading as NEW BELL STORAGE
USDOT 121052 · 3489 WESTMINSTER AVE, NORFOLK, VA 23504
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on June 1, 1974, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC316166, active as common carrier.
O K MOVING & STORAGE COMPANY INC, trading as O. K. FORWARDING
USDOT 227636 · 1129 HARMONY RD, NORFOLK, VA 23502
It filed 8 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 28, 1983, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket FF001864, active as contract carrier.
FEDERAL VAN LINES LLC
USDOT 500492 · 3489 WESTMINSTER AVE #5, NORFOLK, VA 23504
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on October 8, 1992, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC257306, active as common carrier.
ACCENT RELOCATION SERVICES INC, trading as APPLE MOVING
USDOT 795385 · 3489 B WESTMINSTER AVE, NORFOLK, VA 23504
It filed 21 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 16, 1999, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC354379, active as common carrier.
EAST WEST VAN LINES LLC
USDOT 1031133 · 3489 WESTMINSTER AVE #7, NORFOLK, VA 23504
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 29, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC251601, active as common carrier.
ELECTRONIC VAN LINES LLC
USDOT 1031140 · 3489 WESTMINSTER AVE #3, NORFOLK, VA 23504
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on May 29, 2002, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC251598, active as common carrier.
BOS ENTERPRISES INC, trading as BOS MOVING
USDOT 1523029 · 400 NORTH CENTER DRIVE SUITE 101, NORFOLK, VA 23502-0002
It filed 1 power unit, registered with the FMCSA on June 28, 2006, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC570570, active as common carrier.
MKJ ENTERPRISES LLC, trading as MID ATLANTIC MOVING & STORAGE
USDOT 2368858 · 1180 LANCE ROAD, NORFOLK, VA 23502
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 9, 2013, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC812522, active as common carrier.
TIDEWATER MOVING AND HAULING LLC, trading as COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK AND MOVING CO
USDOT 2929288 · 2618 ARKANSAS AVENUE, NORFOLK, VA 23513
It filed 9 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 15, 2016, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1077820, active as common carrier.
BEARDED BROTHERS PACKING & MOVING LLC, trading as BEARDED BROTHERS|BEARDED BROTHERS MOVING AND STORAGE
USDOT 3183832 · 4635 KINCAID AVE, NORFOLK, VA 23502
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on September 6, 2018, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC129078, active as common carrier.
CRAIG'S MOVING SERVICES INC
USDOT 3291511 · 5215 COLLEY AVE, NORFOLK, VA 23508
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on May 24, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1335522.
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 Virginia authorisation are separate. The list above shows the federal record only, and we have not verified whether any company listed holds a Virginia licence or permit.
A mover operating inside Virginia needs the Household Goods Carrier for-hire intrastate operating authority from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services.
Virginia publishes a licence lookup: Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services licence search.
Source: Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Motor Carrier Services, read 2026-08-09.
Peak demand across Virginia 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 Norfolk. 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 Norfolk, 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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk:
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 Norfolk 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