Moving Companies in Tupelo, MS
Tupelo movers charge $89 to $179 an hour for a standard two-person crew with a truck on local jobs. Some companies instead quote flat rates by home size: around $499 for a studio, $749 for a one- or two-bedroom home, and $999 or more for larger houses. Long-distance moves out of the area, to cities like Atlanta or Memphis, start around $780 and scale up with the size of your load.
Local factors worth planning around
Many companies add a travel fee, often equal to an hour of labor, to cover driving to and from your address, so ask whether it is folded into the quoted rate. Tupelo summers push the heat index past 95 degrees and spring brings storm risk, so morning slots between May and September help crews work faster and keep heat-sensitive items safer. Taking apart bed frames and disconnecting electronics before the crew arrives also cuts down on billable hours. Ask for a written estimate and find out whether it is binding, meaning the price is locked in, or non-binding, meaning it can rise if the job runs long. You can verify a mover's registration through the federal motor carrier safety database before booking. The listings below cover movers who serve the Tupelo area.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Lee County.
69% arrived from elsewhere in Mississippi. 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 movers49% 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 $56,515 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Mississippi report $46,512. 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 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 Mississippi migration page →
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