Moving Labor in Yorktown and York County, VA

Most "Yorktown" moves are not in the historic village at all — they are in the subdivisions of York County, and the plan changes completely depending on which part of the county you are in. Military Veterans Moving People (MVMP) provides labor-only moving help across Yorktown and York County: you arrange the rental truck, container, or vehicle, and our crew does the loading, unloading, and heavy carrying. Two movers run $150 an hour, three run $225, four run $300 — $75 per mover per hour with a three-hour minimum. Call 757-330-0008 and tell us your community and your street before anything else. Our crews are veterans and civilian professionals working together. In York County the useful local knowledge is specific: which roads a rental truck can legally use, which communities are run by a homeowners association (HOA) with parking rules, and which addresses sit behind a military gate with its own schedule.

Quick Summary:
- What: Labor-only moving help in Yorktown & York County, VA — loading, unloading, and in-home carrying. You provide the truck or container; we provide the crew.
- Rate: $75 per mover per hour. 2 movers $150/hr · 3 movers $225/hr · 4 movers $300/hr. 3-hour minimum, $450 base.
- Deposit: One hour for your crew size ($150 / $225 / $300), subtracted from your total on moving day, refundable if you cancel 48 or more hours before your move.
- Billing: The clock starts when the crew arrives at your pickup. After the minimum, time bills in 15-minute increments.
- Military: $50 military discount, standing offer. Crews are veterans and civilian professionals.
- Coverage: General liability and workers' compensation. On labor-only jobs there is no cargo insurance — you are the carrier for your goods.
- Call: 757-330-0008.

One County Name, Four Different Moves

York County counted 70,045 residents in the 2020 census. Formed in 1634 as Charles River Shire, it is one of the eight original shires of colonial Virginia, and its county seat is the unincorporated village of Yorktown — itself home to only about 221 people in that same census. Almost everyone who gives a Yorktown address actually lives in one of the county's unincorporated communities strung along two corridors: George Washington Memorial Highway (U.S. Route 17) running north–south, and Hampton Highway (State Route 134) and Victory Boulevard cutting across the lower county toward Newport News and Hampton.

Historic Yorktown and the battlefield. The village, the Yorktown Battlefield, and the waterfront are a small, protected historic core — a different job from everything below.

The military belt. Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and the United States Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown occupy large tracts in the county's center, and Lackey sits across from the weapons station on Old Williamsburg Road. Service members, civilian employees, and students cycle through housing on and around both installations.

Lower county: Tabb, Grafton, and Dare. The county's population center. Tabb alone is home to roughly 23,800 people, and the Grafton postal area (ZIP code 23692) counted 18,846 in 2010. Subdivisions, garden-style apartments, and schools fill the ground between Route 17 and the Poquoson River.

Upper county: Seaford, Skimino, Edgehill, and Queens Lake. Larger lots, waterfront streets on the York River and its creeks, and communities that run toward Williamsburg along the Colonial Parkway. Longer driveways, longer carries, and fewer rental-truck options nearby.

Historic Yorktown: The Village, the Battlefield,

and the Parkway Trap

Yorktown is the eastern point of Virginia's Historic Triangle, with Jamestown and Williamsburg. In the fall of 1781, allied American and French forces under General George Washington besieged the British army of General Charles Cornwallis here; Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781, effectively ending the Revolutionary War in North America. The battlefield is now part of Colonial National Historical Park, run by the National Park Service (NPS), and the surrender terms were negotiated at the Moore House, which visitors can still see.

For a mover, the village means narrow historic streets, homes that predate modern furniture dimensions, and a waterfront district where truck parking is a plan, not an assumption. Measure your largest pieces, tell us what was assembled inside a room, and expect the truck to sit farther from the door than in a modern subdivision.

The bigger trap is the road in. The Colonial Parkway is a 23-mile scenic roadway, also run by the National Park Service, linking Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Jamestown between the York River and the James River. It was completed in 1957, carries speed limits of about 35 to 45 miles per hour — and trucks are not permitted on it. A rental truck routed by a phone's default directions toward the Parkway has to turn around and come in on Route 17 or Interstate 64 (I-64) instead. Tell your truck driver, and tell us, which route the truck is actually taking; a Parkway detour on moving morning costs real time inside your building or lease window.

The Military Belt: Naval Weapons Station

and Coast Guard Training Center

Naval Weapons Station Yorktown is one of the Navy's major East Coast ordnance facilities, set between the York River, Colonial National Historical Park, York County, and Newport News. The Navy established the site in 1918 as a naval mine depot — acquiring more than 11,000 acres of land at the time — and renamed it Naval Weapons Station Yorktown on its 40th anniversary in 1959. Its Cheatham Annex, founded in 1943 as a Seabee training base, was incorporated into the weapons station in 1998 and serves both expeditionary training and fleet supply functions. The station's stated mission is ordnance logistics and technical support for United States operating forces.

Training Center Yorktown is the Coast Guard's schoolhouse in the county. The Coast Guard took over the former Navy Mine Warfare School site in the late 1950s, first as a Reserve Training Center, and the command was renamed Training Center Yorktown in 1998. It hosts apprentice-level "A" schools and advanced "C" schools — courses that typically run about 10 to 19 weeks — for ratings including Boatswain's Mate, Machinery Technician, Electrician's Mate, Gunner's Mate, Damage Controlman, Marine Science Technician, and Intelligence Specialist. That school calendar matters for housing: students and permanent staff arrive and leave on course dates, not on the first of the month, and short assignments make rental trucks and containers — and hired labor by the hour — the normal pattern.

For a Permanent Change of Station (PCS), the division of labor is the same here as everywhere we work: the transportation office and your housing office set the rules and dates, you arrange the truck or container — under a Personally Procured Move (PPM), you arrange the labor as well and keep every receipt for your filing — and our crew does the lifting. We do not state gate, pass, or entry procedures on this page; those come from the installation, and they change. Our Langley and Fort Eustis hub page carries the wider Peninsula military playbook; this page covers the York County streets those moves start and end on.

Lower County: Tabb, Grafton, Dare,

and the Apartment Corridor

South of the Poquoson River and Harwoods Mill Reservoir is Tabb — the county's largest community, grown from a largely rural area into a dense suburban one in recent decades, with subdivisions such as Tabb Lakes built around mature trees and water. Grafton, bounded roughly by Goodwin Neck Road, Chisman Creek, and Oriana Road, was known as Cockletown before taking its present name from its Baptist church in the late 1700s. Dare and the communities along Dare Road — Coventry, Running Man, Brandywine, and the York County side of Kiln Creek — fill in the rest of the lower county. The county's own services map puts Grafton, Tabb, Brandywine, Coventry, Kiln Creek, and Running Man in its southern zone and the Marlbank, Edgehill, Queens Lake, Skimino, and Lightfoot areas in its northern zone, on and north of Dare Road — a useful shorthand for how far apart two "Yorktown" addresses can actually be.

Moves here are subdivision moves, and the planning questions repeat:

1. Association rules first. Coventry, Running Man, Tabb Lakes, and Kiln Creek are planned communities with associations. Confirm where a rental truck or container may park, and for how long, before delivery day — container placement in particular cannot be improvised in a community with architectural rules. Kiln Creek alone holds more than 2,000 homes in 31 villages across the Newport News and York County line, under a master owners association.

2. Apartment logistics. The lower county's apartment communities — including Grafton Station Apartments on Piccadilly Loop, set on about 32 acres, the Pines of York on Hampton Highway, and Four Seasons on Indian Summer Drive — are garden-style or low-rise stock. The questions are the floor, the exterior stairs, and how far the carry runs from the parking lot. Get your building's move window from the leasing office first, then call us with those answers.

3. Route 17 is the spine. George Washington Memorial Highway carries the lower county's shopping, storage, and truck-rental traffic, and it backs up accordingly. A load in Tabb and an unload in Hampton or Newport News is one job with a real drive in the middle — Victory Boulevard and Hampton Highway toward the Peninsula cities, or I-64 — so tell us both addresses up front.

Upper County and the Waterfront: Seaford, Dandy,

Edgehill, Queens Lake

North and west, the county thins out. Seaford and Dandy sit on the York River side, reached by Seaford Road; Edgehill, Marlbank Farm, and Queens Lake run toward Williamsburg. Lots are larger, many streets are privately maintained or end at the water, and homes are more often reached by a long driveway than a curb. The moving math flips: parking is rarely the problem, distance is. A longer carry on every trip between the door and the truck is exactly the case where a third mover pays for himself, because one person stages at the truck while two work the carry.

Waterfront homes add one more step: confirm the truck can actually reach the house and turn around. A truck that has to back out of a narrow river road, or shuttle loads to a second vehicle, needs to be planned before it is loaded, not discovered at the bottom of the driveway.

Planning Rules That Save Money Anywhere in York County

1. Never route a truck on the Colonial Parkway. Trucks are prohibited, the speed limit is 35–45, and the detour back to Route 17 or I-64 eats your morning. Give every driver the truck-legal route in writing.

2. Name the community, not just "Yorktown." Tabb, Grafton, Seaford, and the historic village are different jobs with different access. The community name is the first thing we ask, and the fastest way to a right-sized crew.

3. Get the association or leasing answer before the truck. Parking spot, time limit, elevator or move window — a crew waiting on permission is billing your minimum without moving anything.

4. Match the crew to the carry. Tight historic-village stairs and long upper-county driveways both argue for three movers over two, even on a smaller home.

5. Use storage or a container for the gap. If the new home is not ready — common on school-course and PCS timelines — load once into storage or a container and book the second half later. Our Hampton storage and container pages cover the systems, sizes, and placement planning.

What Labor-Only Moving Help Costs in Yorktown

and York County + How to Book

Labor-only is our lead offering on the Peninsula, and the rate is the same in York County as in Hampton: 2 movers — $150/hour · 3 movers — $225/hour · 4 movers — $300/hour · $75 per mover per hour, three-hour minimum. A packed one-bedroom apartment load or unload in the lower county with a short carry is usually a two-mover job at the minimum. A historic-village house with tight stairs, a third-floor apartment walk-up, or a waterfront home with a long driveway carry usually needs three movers to finish inside the window you are given. Your truck, container, and storage costs are paid to those companies directly; we are not affiliated with any building, association, installation, or park named on this page.

How to Book: Call 757-330-0008 with four things ready: (1) both addresses, with the community name for each; (2) the building type, floor, and longest carry; (3) any association, building, or housing-office move window or parking rule that applies; and (4) your truck or container size, where it will park, and the truck-legal route it is taking in. With those four answers, we can name a crew size and a start time that fit the address instead of fighting it.

Deposit and billing (locked terms): The deposit is one hour for your crew size — $150, $225, or $300 — subtracted from your total on moving day, and refundable if you cancel 48 or more hours before your move. The billing clock starts when the crew arrives at your pickup. After the 3-hour minimum, time bills in 15-minute increments. The $50 military discount is a standing offer — say you serve or served, and it comes off.

Quality Assurance Guarantee: If our movers damage an item while it is under their direct handling, we will review it promptly and work with you toward repair or replacement.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Do you provide moving labor throughout Yorktown and York County? A: Yes — from the historic village and battlefield, through Tabb, Grafton, Dare, Coventry, and Running Man in the lower county, to Seaford, Edgehill, Marlbank, and Queens Lake in the upper county, plus the areas around Naval Weapons Station Yorktown and Training Center Yorktown. You arrange the truck or container; our crew loads, unloads, and carries. Call 757-330-0008 with both addresses.

Q: How much does moving labor cost in Yorktown, VA? A: The standard Peninsula labor-only card: two movers $150 an hour, three $225, four $300 — $75 per mover per hour with a three-hour minimum. Truck, container, and storage costs are separate and paid to those providers.

Q: Can my rental truck use the Colonial Parkway to reach Yorktown? A: No. The Colonial Parkway is a 23-mile National Park Service scenic roadway between Yorktown, Williamsburg, and Jamestown, and trucks are not permitted on it. Route a rental truck or container delivery on U.S. Route 17 (George Washington Memorial Highway) or Interstate 64 instead, and give the driver that route in advance.

Q: I am assigned to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown or Training Center Yorktown. Can you load my truck or container for a PCS or PPM? A: Yes. Both installations sit in York County, and Tabb, Grafton, and Lackey are common off-post addresses for their personnel, while Coast Guard "A" school courses run about 10 to 19 weeks and turn housing over on course dates. Under a Personally Procured Move (PPM) you arrange the truck or container and the labor yourself and keep every invoice for your filing — confirm current rules with your transportation office, and get any gate or housing procedure from the installation itself.

Q: What is different about moving in historic Yorktown village? A: The village is a small historic core beside the Yorktown Battlefield, where Cornwallis surrendered on October 19, 1781. Streets are narrow, many homes predate modern furniture sizes, and waterfront truck parking has to be planned. Measure your largest pieces, tell us about anything assembled inside a room, and expect a longer carry from the truck.

Q: I live in Coventry, Running Man, Tabb Lakes, or Kiln Creek. Where can my truck or container sit? A: That is set by your community's association rules and your lease, not by us. These are planned communities — Kiln Creek alone holds more than 2,000 homes in 31 villages across York County and Newport News under a master owners association — and container placement in particular needs written approval. Confirm the spot and the time limit before delivery day.

Q: Can you handle an apartment move in Grafton or Tabb? A: Yes. The lower county's apartment communities, such as Grafton Station on Piccadilly Loop and the Pines of York on Hampton Highway, are garden-style and low-rise buildings where the job turns on your floor, the exterior stairs, and the carry from the parking lot. Get your building's move window from the leasing office first, then call us with the floor and the carry distance.

Q: Are you affiliated with the Navy, the Coast Guard, the National Park Service, or any York County community? A: No. We are an independent, veteran-owned moving labor company. Names on this page describe the areas we serve. Installation procedures, park rules, association permissions, and building move windows come from the installation, the park service, your association, or your building — not from us.

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