The FMCSA motor carrier census lists 45 household goods registrants whose physical address is in Virginia Beach, VA, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. BestMovers.info holds no Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach. The companies below are headquartered elsewhere in Virginia, shown separately from movers that publish nationwide service.
Common service neighborhoods: Town Center, Sandbridge, Great Neck, Kempsville.
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 Virginia Beach is the Virginia statewide range, and it is published in full on the Virginia 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 Virginia Beach transaction-price dataset.
IRS county migration data for filing years 2022 to 2023 records 17,641 returns moving out of Virginia Beach city, the county Virginia Beach sits in, and 16,768 moving in. A return approximates a household rather than a person. Those filings cover 31,350 individuals leaving and 29,104 arriving.
The counties receiving the most households from Virginia Beach city were Norfolk city (2,544 returns), Chesapeake city (2,342 returns) and Suffolk city (483 returns).
Arrivals came mainly from Norfolk city (2,578 returns), Chesapeake city (1,928 returns) and San Diego County, CA (440 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 Virginia Beach, and 24 of those are classified by FMCSA as interstate operations. The census records the city name as the registrant filed it, and "VIRGINIA BEACH" (44), "VIRGINIA BEACH" (1) all appear for Virginia Beach; the total above sums them. That figure counts companies whose federal registration lists an address in Virginia Beach. 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 Virginia Beach may not.
FMCSA motor carrier census, Company Census FileData as of 2026-08-10
Moving crews quoting Virginia Beach work Town Center, Sandbridge, Great Neck, Kempsville and the surrounding areas.
Movers working inside Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach.
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 Virginia Beach, 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 Virginia Beach, and no service claim is made here.
These companies publish broad nationwide moving service and are shown separately from locally or state-based companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13 companies with a Virginia Beach 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.
60 active registrants in Virginia Beach tick household goods among their cargo types on the census form, and 41 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 Virginia Beach: a company based elsewhere may serve the city, and a registered address is not a service area.
A FRIENDLY MOVER INC
USDOT 1730505 · 3424 CHANDLER CREEK ROAD, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23453
It filed 4 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 24, 2008, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC634060.
PRIME MOVERS USA LLC
USDOT 2995403 · 218 THALIA STATION DRIVE, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23452
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on April 10, 2017, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC021183, active as common carrier.
JAWCS LLC, trading as A FRIENDLY & AFFORDABLE MOVER
USDOT 3239170 · 516 CENTRAL DRIVE #104, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23454
It filed 2 power units, registered with the FMCSA on January 30, 2019, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1036449, active as common carrier and contract carrier.
MARATHON MOVING SERVICES
USDOT 3572153 · 1911 SOMERTON PL, VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23464
It filed 3 power units, registered with the FMCSA on February 18, 2021, and holds granted federal household goods authority under docket MC1552140, 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.
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 Virginia Beach. 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 Virginia Beach, 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 Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach:
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 Virginia Beach 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