Moving Companies in Clifton, CO
Clifton sits beside Grand Junction, so Mesa County local moves follow different pricing from longer Western Slope or interstate trips.
- Whether the move stays local, because a studio or one-bedroom full-service job runs $550 to $1,100, a two- or three-bedroom home $1,000 to $2,000, and four bedrooms or more $2,100 to $3,500+.
- Long-distance needs, because short regional work begins around $1,250 and interstate relocations reach $5,000+.
- Labor-only help if you supply the truck or container, because the crew hourly total sits at $85 to $120 or $40 to $80 per mover, completed jobs range $310 to $740, and a two-hour minimum is required.
- Billing start time, because the meter runs from the warehouse, making a Mesa County operator cheaper than one traveling from Denver or Glenwood Springs.
- Extra item or access fees, because pianos, gun safes, narrow stairs, steep driveways, and long carries from truck to door are often omitted from the first quote.
- Calendar slot, because the stretch from Memorial Day to Labor Day or the opening and closing days of a month lifts hourly rates 20% to 30%, while Tuesday to Thursday in mid-month avoids the premium.
- Insurance level, because free released-value protection pays only $0.60 per pound per item.
- Packing responsibility, because having movers box small items can double or triple the hours billed.
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Federal tax-filer migration data for Mesa County.
56% 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 movers62% 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
Clifton refills from a distance: nearby counties pull households out, and the rest of the country more than replaces them.
Each bar shows that state's in/out split — rows are ranked by total volume.
Households arriving from another state report $72,824 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Colorado report $66,866. 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 Mesa County rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 52% 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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