Moving Companies in Kalispell, MT
Local moves in the Flathead Valley, covering Kalispell, Whitefish, and Columbia Falls, are billed hourly, with a standard two-person crew and truck running $120 to $180 an hour. Most companies also enforce a two- to three-hour minimum booking, even for a small job.
By home size, a one-bedroom apartment typically totals $400 to $800, while a three-bedroom home runs $900 to $1,800 or more depending on stairs, heavy items like a piano or safe, and whether you add packing service. Moving 50 miles or further out of the valley shifts pricing away from an hourly rate toward total weight and mileage instead. Not every company bills strictly by the hour, either — some use a flat-rate structure instead, so it is worth asking which pricing model a company uses before comparing two quotes side by side.
If you are planning to tip the crew, the standard guideline locally is about $4 to $5 per hour per mover, split among the team based on how long the job runs.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Flathead County.
78% 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 movers70% of departures left the state. Interstate moves are priced by weight and distance, and the carrier must hold active interstate operating authority.
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 $100,370 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Montana report $63,068. 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 Flathead 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 Montana migration page →
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