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Moving Companies in Juneau, AK

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48 reviews

What Moving in Juneau Costs

Labor-only help — loading or unloading a truck or container you've already arranged — typically runs $330.98 to $730.63 total, or around $80 an hour per helper. Bigger jobs involving a shipping container or full-service van line scale into the thousands, priced by weight or volume depending on the carrier.

Why Juneau Is Different

There's no road connecting Juneau to the rest of Alaska or Canada — everything arrives by air or marine freight, so a standard moving truck can't simply drive to your door. Some carriers price by weight, others by cubic volume, and volume is usually the easier number to predict for a remote shipment.

Plan for the Wait

Barge shipments can take weeks to arrive, so keep a bag of clothes, documents, and tools with you rather than packed away. Buying replacement furniture locally tends to cost more than shipping what you already own, and a pod-style container that gets barged in and unloaded on-site is usually less stressful than coordinating a truck over rough terrain.

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Best Movers in Juneau, AK

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What customers say in Juneau, AK

★★★★★★★★★★ Google
When my furniture arrived my original moving company destroyed my furniture. When Reliable picked it up and brought it to my home. They took pictures and tried to fix what they could. Gently moved in what had not been broken. The loss was so extreme and all my family heirlooms were destroyed. Reliab...
Stacey Rime
Reliable Freight Forwarding · Sep 2023
★★★★★★★★★★ Google
Movers were on time, pleasant, and efficient. Cost was reasonable.
Mark Kissel
Reliable Freight Forwarding · Sep 2022
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Our business used Reliable Transfer a few months ago to move from the Airport Mini Mall into the Nugget Mall, while also picking up multiple large shelving units and eight of our big, heavy glass display cases from the old St. Vincent's. Not a single thing was damaged or broken. They did send just t...
Casey Harris
Reliable Freight Forwarding · Sep 2019
★★★★★★★★★★ Google
I’m receiving seafood and other perishable packages for work on a daily basis, the staff at reliable have been awesome about calling and getting in contact with me when packages arrive. Great hard working staff, keep up the good attention to detail guys!
Nathaniel Ewing
Reliable Freight Forwarding · Sep 2018
★★★★★★★★★★ Google
They showed up on time, worked hard, got it done politely and cheerfully without damaging anything. No complaints whatsoever.
Stuart Cohen
Reliable Freight Forwarding · Sep 2018

Who's moving to Juneau, AK

Federal tax-filer migration data for Juneau City and Borough.

-115 net households
What kind of mover will you need?
Moving in
877 households arrived

74% 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
992 households left

73% 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
-120
18–19
-46
19–20
-191
20–21
-175
21–22
-115
22–23
Which states Juneau trades with

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

Washington +2
43 in
41 out
Arizona -40
40 out
31 in
Beyond 50 miles
Anchorage, AK 564 mi Knik-Fairview, AK 560 mi Seattle, WA 903 mi Fairbanks, AK 618 mi Phoenix, AZ 2,009 mi Los Angeles, CA 1,839 mi

Households arriving from another state report $70,973 in average annual income; those relocating from elsewhere in Alaska report $78,198. 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 Juneau City and Borough rather than city limits exactly, misses people who don't file a return, and leaves 83% 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 Alaska 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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