Moving Companies in Waterloo, IL
What to Expect for Waterloo Moving Costs
In Waterloo and the nearby Illinois side of the St. Louis metro-east, local movers generally charge by the hour. Long-distance relocations are more likely to use a flat or weight-based rate.
Hourly and labor-only pricing
- A two-person crew with a truck averages $174 to $192 per hour in Illinois.
- Labor-only help, for those who already have a truck or container, runs about $78 to $125 per hour.
- Waterloo labor-only moving help commonly totals between $321.86 and $625.62.
Small local moves in Waterloo have been quoted from $540 to $2,387.50. Depending on home size, a local move in the broader area can run from $530 to more than $3,000.
Labor-only crews handle loading and unloading for a rental truck, trailer, or portable container. A local move usually stays within the same neighborhood or a nearby town.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Monroe County.
51% arrived from elsewhere in Illinois. 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 movers58% 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 $83,471 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Illinois report $70,917. 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 Monroe County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 36% 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 Illinois migration page →
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