Moving Companies in Fort Madison, IA
Moving costs in Fort Madison
Labor-only help for loading or unloading, if you provide the truck, runs $80 to $85 per hour for a crew, with a typical job totaling $330 to $730. A full-service local move with a truck and a two- to three-person crew usually bills $100 to $175 per hour. Moving farther out, whether across the state or out of Iowa, ranges widely from $1,351 up to $8,000 or more depending on weight and distance.
Things to plan around
Ask whether travel time from the company's base to your address is billed separately, since this fee is often left out of an initial quote. Weather along the Mississippi River can shift quickly, and rain can ruin wooden furniture or soaked cardboard boxes, so ask what protection the crew uses and how they handle a weather delay. Build your inventory carefully with a walkthrough or video rather than a rough phone estimate, since undisclosed heavy or oversized items can mean an added fee or a refusal to move them on the day. Customary tipping runs $20 to $50 per mover for a half or full day, or roughly 5 to 20 percent of the total bill split among the crew. Ask about upgrading basic coverage if you own valuable furniture or electronics.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Lee County.
60% arrived from another state. Long-haul moves need a carrier with active interstate operating authority — plenty of local companies don't hold one.
See licensed movers62% of departures left the state. Interstate moves are priced by weight and distance, and the carrier must hold active interstate operating authority.
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Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $59,848 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Iowa report $44,946. Long-distance arrivals are the higher-budget half of the market.
How this works: IRS SOI County-to-County Migration Data, 2022-2023. The IRS compares the address on consecutive tax returns, so every move here is a real filed household. The catch: it publishes annually with about a two-year lag, counts Lee County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 60% of moves unattributed to a specific county, because flows too small to publish are grouped into regional buckets instead. See the whole state on the Iowa migration page →
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Industry rules of thumb — about seven pounds per cubic foot, and published rental-truck capacities. Not our carrier records, not a quote. Bring both numbers to the call and what you get back will finally be comparable.