Hampton Moving Cost Index

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Labor only — 5 jobs. Four cost 450 dollars: two movers, three hours, the minimum — in Hampton, at Fort Eustis in Newport News, and in Williamsburg. One cost 975 dollars: four movers for 3 hours and 15 minutes in Hampton.

Two movers and a truck — 3 jobs: 600 dollars from Poquoson to Hampton, 650 dollars from Newport News to Yorktown, and 1,400 dollars for a two-day Hampton move into Norfolk storage.

Three movers and a truck — 1 job: 750 dollars, three hours, in Hampton's Coliseum Central.

Flat-price jobs — 2 jobs, outside the hourly numbers: 1,300 dollars to move two gun safes in Williamsburg, and a 7,080-dollar retirement move from Hampton to Smithfield, run under a flat contract.

The cities behind this edition: Hampton (5 jobs), Newport News (2), Williamsburg (2), Poquoson (1), and one Hampton job that ended in Smithfield. The neighborhoods in the record include Coliseum Central — three of the Hampton jobs — plus Phoebus, Wythe, and Big Woods in Poquoson.

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A job enters the Index only when it is completed and paid in full, with the payment record checking out to the dollar in our own files.

We publish the middle number — the median — not the average. One very large job cannot drag the Index around: the 7,080-dollar flat contract sits in the flat-price list where it belongs, and it never touches the hourly medians.

Customer names are never published. Community-services moves are not counted in this Index — those jobs bill at agency rates, and agency prices are not customer prices.

This is the first Hampton edition of the Index, so there is no last month to compare it to — anyone showing you a trend line from one month of data is making it up.

The December 2026 edition will be built the same way, from that month's verified jobs. It will also be the edition where the two-movers-and-a-truck median prints — one more verified job in that class is all it takes.

Every edition stays on this page, so the record can be checked, not just claimed.

How often does the Index update?
Monthly. Each new edition is built from that month's verified, completed jobs.

Is this the whole Hampton market?
No, and we say so plainly. The Index is one company's real records — every Hampton-market job we can prove, published where anyone can check it. It grows every month.

Why is there no middle number for two movers and a truck?
Because only three verified jobs in that class are on record so far — 600, 650, and 1,400 dollars — and we do not publish a median on three jobs. Four is our floor. The December edition should clear it.

Why the middle number instead of the average?
Because one 7,080-dollar contract would bend an average into a number that helps nobody. The middle job is the honest picture of what a move here costs.

What is the cheapest real job behind this Index?
450 dollars — two movers, three hours, labor only. Four of the five labor-only jobs in this edition cost exactly that.

Is the deposit inside these totals, or on top of them?
Inside. The deposit is one hour at your crew's rate, paid up front and credited to the bill. On the jobs behind this Index, the deposit plus the balance equals the total — 150 plus 300 on a 450-dollar job, 200 plus 400 on a 600-dollar job.

Are community-services moves counted in the Index?
No. Moves we run for community services boards bill at agency rates, and their payment records sit with the agencies. A job only enters the Index when its payment record checks out to the dollar in our own files.

More from the Hampton record:

The Work Ledger — what our crews earn. Crew pay starts at 28 dollars an hour, paid the same day; 3,895 dollars and 75 cents across 21 payments to 9 working men, Sept 26 to Oct 23, 2026.
Work Ledger https://hamptonmovingcompanies.com/the-work-ledger

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