Moving Companies in Altona, CO
Altona is an unincorporated rural foothills area near Longmont and Boulder where movers from those cities or Denver handle local jobs. Moves under 100 miles are charged hourly by crew and time. Two movers and a truck cost $100 to $160 per hour and three cost $150 to $220 per hour, higher in May through September or at month starts and ends. Travel fees of one labor hour or mileage cover trips to Altona and back. Heavy items such as pianos, safes or hot tubs add $75 to $300 or more with possible stair extras though ranch homes are typical. Packing supplies are billed extra. Steep unpaved narrow driveways or low branches along N. Foothills Highway and Highway 36 can stop a 26-foot truck, forcing a shuttle or roadside parking. Weather can turn suddenly to wind rain or snow so protect floors and ask about delays. Colorado PUC rules require double drive time at twice the hourly rate for transit. Liability is $0.60 per pound so a 30-pound $1,000 television brings $18 compensation, suggesting extra coverage. Tipping customarily $4 to $6 per mover per hour or 15-20% of labor split by the crew.
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Who's moving to Altona, CO
Federal tax-filer migration data for Boulder County.
53% 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 movers50% 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
Altona refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country only partly replaces them.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $104,218 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Colorado report $90,759. 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 Boulder County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 27% 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 Colorado migration page →
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