Moving Companies in Sulphur, LA
Local moving crews around Sulphur run $140 to $160 or more an hour for a standard two-person crew and truck — the number that drives most of your final bill.
If you've already got a truck or container and just need labor to load or unload, hourly help is cheaper, closer to $83 an hour, with total jobs typically landing between $335 and $700. Moves leaving Louisiana entirely switch to pricing by weight and distance instead of the clock.
A few things catch people off guard. Crews often start billing from the moment they leave their depot, not when they reach your driveway — if your mover is based out of Lake Charles rather than Sulphur itself, that drive time counts. Sudden humidity and rain are common here, so plastic-wrap mattresses and fabric furniture yourself if the crew doesn't offer heavy-duty wrap.
Basic liability coverage is limited by law to about $0.60 per pound per item — a 20-pound television worth $1,000 would only net you $12 if it's dropped, so ask about upgrading coverage for anything valuable. Keep documents, medication, and irreplaceable items in your own car rather than the truck. Standard tipping runs $4 to $5 per worker per hour, or 15% to 20% of the total split among the crew.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Calcasieu Parish.
51% 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 movers36% of departures went farther than 50 miles. Beyond that range moves are priced by weight and distance, and a state line means the carrier needs interstate 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 $51,645 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Louisiana report $47,224. 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 Calcasieu Parish rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 40% 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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