What would a 1 bedroom move from Gloucester to Colorado cost?

Roughly $2,650–$5,350 over about 2,088 miles, delivering in a 5–10-day window. The band spans a lean full-service quote to a premium, packing-heavy one, and it is an estimate rather than a quote.

How far ahead should I book a move out of Gloucester?

A smaller market where outbound loads are usually picked up by a carrier routing through the area rather than dispatched for your shipment alone, which rewards booking early. Demand peaks from late spring through the September 1 lease turnover that dominates Boston and the college towns. Weekday dates from November through March are the easiest and cheapest to book.

What should I sort out before load day in Gloucester?

Stair carries and permit parking drive the load-day plan. If a tractor-trailer cannot legally sit outside your door, the carrier shuttles the load in a smaller truck and bills that separately, so settle it before the survey rather than on the morning.

Origin city · Essex County, MA · 2026

Moving from Gloucester, MA

Smaller city of about 29,959 in Essex County, Gloucester is a smaller market where outbound loads are usually picked up by a carrier routing through the area rather than dispatched for your shipment alone, which rewards booking early. Which matters, because the single biggest variable in an outbound quote from Massachusetts is not the carrier you pick — it is the mileage on your lane and the season you load in.

Residents

29,959

County

Essex

Corridor pages

Two clocks run on any move out of Gloucester, and they do not match. Yours: North Carolina, the closest destination covered here at about 734 miles, is roughly 13 hr 30 min on the road, realistically 2 days. Your furniture's: a 2–5-day delivery window, because an interstate trailer consolidates several households heading the same way.

Worked example · Gloucester, MA → Colorado

1 bedroom · 2,088 mi · 5–10-day delivery window

Full-service interstate, 1 bedroom

$2,650–$5,350

One costed lane out of Gloucester, not a claim about what most households here move. You drive it in about 38 hr 45 min; your furniture arrives inside the window above.

What shapes an outbound move from Gloucester

Gloucester sits 8th of Essex County's 10 places — about 4% of everyone in the county — served by the same agents as the county's anchor city, but scheduled around it rather than ahead of it.

The largest county bordering Essex County is Middlesex County, with 1,623,952 residents, larger than this one, so agents based there often cover both. That move stays inside Massachusetts and is intrastate.

Essex County sits on the Massachusetts state line, bordering New Hampshire. That matters more than it sounds: a move of twenty minutes across that line is legally an interstate move, so it needs a carrier with federal household-goods authority and it is priced on weight and distance rather than by the hour. Short interstate hops are the moves people most often assume are local, and they are not.

Gloucester ranks 44th of 58 Massachusetts places — comfortably inside routine agent coverage, but not big enough that a trailer comes out for one household.

The Essex County places closest to Gloucester in size — Newburyport, Beverly, Amesbury Town, and Salem — book outbound moves the same way it does, Newburyport sitting just under it at about 18,731. If your date can flex a day either way, an outbound load from a place this size usually rides with a shipment already scheduled nearby rather than getting a trailer of its own.

Essex County's population has held roughly flat since 2020, so inbound and outbound moves are broadly in balance. That is the easiest condition to book in: crews are not saturated by one direction, and off-peak dates are widely available.

Essex County is Massachusetts's 3rd-largest county of 14, holding roughly 12% of the state's residents. That is enough weight for agents to keep crews based locally rather than dispatching them in.

How far Gloucester is from where people move

Measured from Massachusetts's population-weighted centre rather than Gloucester — this site holds metro coordinates only for its corridor cities, so treat these as corridor-scale figures. The drive column is your car; the delivery window is your furniture, and the two are not the same number.

Outbound from Gloucester, MA · geometric road estimates · full-service interstate · estimates, not quotes.
Destination	Miles	Drive	Delivery window	2-bedroom
North Carolina	734	13 hr 30 min	2–5 days	$2,375–$4,825
Georgia	1,088	20 hr 15 min	3–7 days	$2,850–$5,775
Florida	1,318	24 hr 30 min	3–7 days	$3,175–$6,400
Texas	1,985	36 hr 45 min	4–8 days	$3,850–$7,825
Colorado	2,088	38 hr 45 min	5–10 days	$3,950–$8,000
Idaho	2,514	46 hr 30 min	5–10 days	$4,350–$8,800
Arizona	2,609	48 hr 15 min	6–12 days	$4,450–$8,975
Nevada	2,744	51 hr	6–12 days	$4,550–$9,225

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Gloucester to Colorado by home size

The same 2,088-mile lane as the example above, priced across every home size. Swap in any other destination from the table further up and the shape holds — only the mileage changes. Every figure comes from the same rate model as the quote quiz, so nothing on this site disagrees with anything else on it.

Gloucester, MA → Colorado · ~2,088 mi · full-service interstate · estimates, not quotes.
Home size	Low	Typical	High
Studio	$2,025	$3,050	$4,075
1 bedroom	$2,650	$4,000	$5,350
2 bedrooms	$3,950	$5,975	$8,000
3 bedrooms	$5,800	$8,800	$11,800
4+ bedrooms	$8,300	$12,600	$16,900

Licensing

Is your move out of Gloucester interstate?

A move that starts and ends inside Massachusetts is an intrastate move, governed by Massachusetts law rather than by the FMCSA. Different licence, different complaint process, and usually different pricing — intrastate work is commonly billed hourly while interstate work is billed on weight and distance. Verify a mover's state authority with the Massachusetts agency that oversees motor carriers before you book, and do not assume a USDOT number alone covers an in-state move.

The moment your shipment crosses the Massachusetts state line it is an interstate move under federal law. The carrier must hold active FMCSA operating authority — a USDOT number plus household-goods authority — must give you the federal "Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move" booklet, and must price the move against a published tariff rather than an hourly rate. You can check any USDOT number yourself on the FMCSA SAFER system before you sign anything.

General information, not legal advice. See your rights on an FMCSA interstate move, the interstate moving checklist, and car shipping if a vehicle travels separately.

Moving from Gloucester: common questions

North Carolina is about 734 miles, Georgia is about 1,088 miles, and Florida is about 1,318 miles. Measured from Massachusetts's centre rather than from Gloucester, because this site holds metro coordinates only for its corridor cities — treat these as corridor-scale figures and confirm door-to-door mileage with your carrier. A loaded interstate shipment on the shortest of those delivers in a 2–5-day window.
No. A move that starts and ends inside Massachusetts is an intrastate move, governed by Massachusetts law rather than by the FMCSA. Different licence, different complaint process, and usually different pricing — intrastate work is commonly billed hourly while interstate work is billed on weight and distance. Verify a mover's state authority with the Massachusetts agency that oversees motor carriers before you book, and do not assume a USDOT number alone covers an in-state move. Worth knowing in Essex County specifically: the county borders New Hampshire, so a short move in that direction crosses the line and does become interstate.
The moment your shipment crosses the Massachusetts state line it is an interstate move under federal law. The carrier must hold active FMCSA operating authority — a USDOT number plus household-goods authority — must give you the federal "Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move" booklet, and must price the move against a published tariff rather than an hourly rate. You can check any USDOT number yourself on the FMCSA SAFER system before you sign anything.

Essex County origins closest in size to Gloucester

See every place and the county-level picture on the Essex County origin hub, or the state-to-state distance hub.

Population figures are US Census estimates. Distances are geometric road estimates from this site's documented model, not routed door-to-door mileage. Cost ranges are informational estimates from the published rate model — not quotes or binding estimates. We are a referral service, not a motor carrier; verify any mover's USDOT number on FMCSA SAFER before you sign.