Moving Companies in Covington, LA
Moving Companies in Covington, LA
Local movers in the Covington area average $135 to $142 an hour for a two-to-three-person crew. That hourly rate is the number that drives almost everything else about your final bill.
A full local move, meaning your old and new address both sit inside roughly 50 miles of each other, typically totals $530 to $2,100 or more depending on whether you're clearing out a one-bedroom apartment or a four-bedroom house.
Cross state lines, or travel farther within Louisiana, and pricing switches from an hourly rate to one based on weight and volume, generally landing between $1,000 and $4,890 or more.
St. Tammany specifics worth knowing
Covington sits in St. Tammany Parish, so ask any mover you're considering whether they're registered for intrastate moves in the parish, and get a written estimate based on an actual walkthrough of your home rather than a number guessed over the phone. If you're weighing several quotes side by side, also confirm whether each number already includes packing materials and fuel, since a quote that looks lower sometimes just leaves those costs out until later.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for St. Tammany Parish.
57% arrived from elsewhere in Louisiana. 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 movers40% 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 $81,608 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Louisiana report $67,229. 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 St. Tammany Parish rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 33% 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 Louisiana migration page →
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