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Moving Companies in Sumter, SC

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38%
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18
Licensed
4.53★
1,191 reviews

Local moves in Sumter are usually billed hourly, often with a two-hour minimum, or as a flat-rate quote for larger homes. Labor-only help — if you already have a truck or pod — runs about $92.53 per hour, totaling $324 to $626 for a typical job.

Home SizeEstimated Cost
Studio / 1-Bedroom$460 – $700
2-Bedroom (~5 hrs)$900 – $1,800
3-Bedroom (~8 hrs)$1,500 – $3,500
4+ Bedroom$2,800 – $4,500+

Before moving day, check that your larger furniture will actually fit through doorways, stairwells, and tight turns at your new place. South Carolina requires movers to register their hourly rates and billing minimums with the state, so a legitimate company should be able to confirm that on request. If you're tipping the crew, $4 to $5 per mover per hour is the standard guideline for a job well done.

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What customers say in Sumter, SC

★★★★★★★★★★ Google
Staff was courteous and professional and answered any questions and concerns.
Cynthia Golden-Moore
Harkins Moving And Storage · Mar 2025
★★★★★★★★★★ Google
They had an upstairs to upstairs move and not a scratch Very impressed Made sure they were hydrated and had snacks
Barbara Burnett
Harkins Moving And Storage · Aug 2023

Who's moving to Sumter, SC

Federal tax-filer migration data for Sumter County.

+164 net households
What kind of mover will you need?
Moving in
3,118 households arrived

58% arrived from another state. Long-haul moves need a carrier with active interstate operating authority — plenty of local companies don't hold one.

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Moving out
2,954 households left

57% 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
Net household change, five years
-149
18–19
-212
19–20
-201
20–21
+15
21–22
+164
22–23
Which states Sumter trades with

Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.

North Carolina -24
94 in
118 out
Nevada -5
64 in
69 out
New Mexico -62
62 out
Colorado +54
54 in
Hawaii +54
54 in
Nearby, under 50 miles
Columbia, SC 36 mi Manning, SC 20 mi Lexington, SC 48 mi Bishopville, SC 19 mi Lugoff, SC 27 mi Florence, SC 38 mi Hartsville, SC 36 mi Orangeburg, SC 39 mi
Beyond 50 miles
Myrtle Beach, SC 84 mi Las Vegas, NV 1,962 mi Charlotte, NC 93 mi Charleston, SC 80 mi Greenville, SC 127 mi Goose Creek, SC 64 mi Summerville, SC 65 mi Rock Hill, SC 83 mi

Households arriving from another state report $55,306 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in South Carolina report $41,871. 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 Sumter County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 62% 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 South Carolina migration page →

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1,150
cubic feet — what a local crew loads
8,050 lb what a long-distance carrier quotes on
26 ft rental truck, if you drive it yourself

Industry rules of thumb — about seven pounds per cubic foot, and published rental-truck capacities. Not our carrier records, not a quote. Bring both numbers to the call and what you get back will finally be comparable.

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