Moving Companies in Portland, TN
Portland sits in Middle Tennessee, where local moves under 50 miles are billed hourly rather than a flat rate.
A standard two-person crew with a truck averages around $124 per hour, with a typical range of $100 to $180 or more depending on the company and crew size. Larger homes with more furniture typically need a three- or four-person crew, which raises the hourly rate but often finishes the job faster. By home size, a studio or one-bedroom typically runs $440 to $900, a two- to three-bedroom home $900 to $2,500, and a four-bedroom-plus home $2,500 to $4,000 or more. Once a move crosses that local radius, hourly pricing stops and companies switch to charging by the total weight and distance of your shipment instead.
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Who's moving to Portland, TN
Federal tax-filer migration data for Sumner County.
54% arrived from elsewhere in Tennessee. Most arrivals are in-state moves, so a regional company will usually cover it — check interstate authority only if you're crossing a state line.
See licensed movers55% of departures stayed under 50 miles. Short local moves are usually priced by the hour, so a regional company is often the cheaper call.
See the full picture — 5-year trend, state flows and top routes
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $85,949 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Tennessee report $69,578. 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 Sumner County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 38% 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 Tennessee migration page →
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