Local moves in Boca Raton, moves into Boca from New Jersey and New York, back north again, and from Boca to anywhere else in Florida — with our own crews at both ends of the trip. No brokers, no handoff to a partner carrier.
Most movers who advertise in Boca Raton do one half of the trip. We have a branch in Sunrise, 30 minutes down I-95, a headquarters in Rahway, New Jersey, and a yard in Brooklyn — which means the crew that loads a house in Summit or Park Slope is our crew, and the crew that carries it into a Boca high-rise or a country-club village is also ours. Local Boca moves run out of Sunrise on the same hourly terms as everything else we do; the long-distance ones are where having both ends matters.
The numbers behind the cliché are large. On IRS migration data for 2019 through 2023, Palm Beach County ranked first in the nation for net inflow of income — $22.7 billion in adjusted gross income over five years, $3.04 billion of it in 2023 alone. The three biggest sending counties in 2023 were all in New York: Nassau, Manhattan and Suffolk. Households arriving from out of state reported an average income of about $245,000.
The Census Bureau's 2024 state-to-state estimates put 50,700 people moving from New York to Florida and 22,600 from New Jersey in a single year. A meaningful share of them are headed for the stretch of coast between Deerfield Beach and Delray, and a lot of that traffic comes through our two Northeast yards. If you are one of them, the NJ to Florida page covers the route in detail and the moving checklist covers the paperwork; this page covers what is different about arriving in Boca specifically.
The other direction is real and growing. Florida's net domestic migration fell from about 310,900 in 2022 to roughly 22,500 in 2025, a drop of more than 90 per cent, and the state slipped from first to eighth among states for net in-movers. United Van Lines' 2025 study rated Florida "balanced" — about as many people leaving as arriving — and found that 46 per cent of those moving out were 65 or older. The same Census figures that show 50,700 New Yorkers heading south show 28,100 Floridians heading to New York and 12,100 to New Jersey.
We see it as a return trip: adult children in Westchester or Bergen County, a spouse who needs to be near a particular hospital, a condo that has become expensive to insure. A Boca-to-New-Jersey move is the same 1,200 miles as the trip down, run by the same company, and it ends at our own yard in Rahway or Brooklyn rather than at a partner's warehouse. If the destination is not ready yet, storage in Rahway holds the load until it is.
Boca Raton's housing is unlike anything in our New Jersey towns. Of the city's roughly 41,000 households, about a third live in buildings of 20 units or more, and a quarter in buildings of 50 or more. Single-family detached homes are only about 42 per cent of the stock. The median home was built in 1983; 62 per cent of housing went up between 1970 and 1999, the country-club era, and one resident in four is 65 or older. Median owner-occupied home value is in the $720,000 to $850,000 range depending on which Census vintage you read.
Practically, that means a Boca delivery is usually one of four things, and each one changes how the truck is loaded in New Jersey before it leaves.
| Where you are moving | Examples | What changes on delivery day |
|---|---|---|
| Oceanfront or downtown condo tower | The A1A corridor, the Mizner Park and downtown towers | Certificate of insurance to the association in advance; freight elevator reserved; weekday move-in window, usually finished by late afternoon |
| Gated country-club community | Boca West, Broken Sound, Woodfield, St. Andrews, Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club | Truck cleared through a staffed gate; village-level HOA rules on top of the club's; wide streets and driveways, no elevator |
| 55+ condo community | Century Village at Boca Raton, about 7,500 units in two- to four-storey buildings | Assigned move windows; small passenger elevators or stairs; unload sequenced by building |
| Single-family home | East Boca, the Estates, and the unincorporated West Boca subdivisions | Truck stages in the driveway, not the street; morning start to beat the heat |
Broken Sound alone is 27 villages of 1,600-odd homes, and each village has its own homeowners' association with its own move-in rules under the club's. Boca West, Boca Pointe, Century Village and most of what is west of the Turnpike is not inside the City of Boca Raton at all — it is unincorporated Palm Beach County with a Boca Raton mailing address. That distinction changes who you call about a container permit; it does not change anything about us.
In a local move, a building's rules cost you an hour. On a 1,200-mile move they can cost you a day. The rules themselves are consistent across South Florida: a certificate of insurance naming the association, delivered and approved before move day; the service elevator reserved, usually one move at a time, with the cab padded; and weekday windows only. Boca Towers on North Ocean Boulevard, to take one association whose rules are public, requires moves to be scheduled at least 24 hours ahead, Monday to Friday, starting no earlier than 8:00 a.m. and finished by 4:00 p.m., with the van at a specified garage entrance and every carton removed by the movers. Many buildings will not allow a move at all on a weekend or a holiday, and several take a refundable deposit against damage to the common areas.
What we do about it: we get the building's move-in packet from you or from management before we schedule the load in the Northeast, send the certificate, and book the elevator for a delivery window the truck can actually make. If the building's window is 8 to 4 on a Thursday, the truck does not leave Rahway on a Wednesday afternoon. Delivery timing on a long-distance move has to bend to the building, not the other way round, and the only way to make that work is to know the rules first.
Boca Raton does not allow parking on any street or right-of-way in the city, and its property-maintenance code keeps commercial vehicles in residential districts out of sight. A tractor-trailer cannot sit at the kerb overnight the way it might in parts of New Jersey. On a house delivery the truck stages in the driveway or, where the driveway will not take it, we shuttle from a smaller truck. On a condo delivery it goes where the building's loading rules put it. If a storage container needs to go on the public right-of-way inside the city, that is a city permit; in the unincorporated areas it is the county and, more often, the HOA.
Then there is the weather, which is the thing New Jersey customers underestimate. The National Weather Service defines South Florida's wet season as May 15 to October 15, with near-daily showers and thunderstorms, and notes that in July and August the daily heat index frequently reaches or exceeds 100°F. Hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks around September 10. We start early — crews on site at 8:00 a.m. means the heavy carrying is done before the worst of the heat and before the afternoon storms build. For a summer move we also plan the delivery date with a day of slack in it, so a storm system between Georgia and Boca is an inconvenience rather than a missed elevator window.
Palm Beach County has two calendars. Year-round residents follow the national pattern — summer, end of the school year, end of month. Seasonal residents arrive from November, peak in January through March, and leave in late April and May, and those months are when trucks, elevators and gate slots are hardest to book. If your dates are flexible, October and early November get you the Northeast weather before it turns, a delivery before the seasonal crowd, and the quietest month of the year for building move-in windows. Late April and May run the same way in reverse for the trip north.
A move between the Northeast and Boca Raton is priced by volume and distance and quoted in writing before the truck is booked. These are the ranges we work from on the New Jersey and New York to South Florida route, and they hold in both directions:
| Home size | Typical range | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Studio or one bedroom | $2,000 – $4,500 | Often a condo-to-condo move; elevator time at both ends |
| Two bedrooms | $4,000 – $7,500 | The most common Boca delivery we quote |
| Three bedrooms | $6,000 – $11,000+ | Full house or a large club-community villa |
| Larger homes | Custom | Priced from an in-home or video survey |
Packing, storage in transit, and specialty items such as pianos and art are quoted separately. A local move within Boca Raton, or from Boca Raton into Broward or Miami-Dade — to Fort Lauderdale, Weston, Aventura or Miami — is billed by the hour from our Sunrise branch: $40 per mover per hour plus $75 for the truck, with a three-hour minimum plus an hour of travel. A three-person crew with a truck is $195 an hour, four is $235, and the practical floor is about $800; a condo-to-condo move inside Boca with elevator time at both ends usually lands between that floor and about $1,500. A move from Boca to elsewhere in Florida — Naples, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville — is quoted by volume and distance, like an interstate job.
Boca Raton to our Rahway headquarters is about 1,220 miles up I-95; to Brooklyn, a few miles more. Our Florida branch in Sunrise is 21 miles and about 30 minutes south of Boca, which is what lets us put a local crew on the delivery end rather than relying on whoever the van line assigns that week. The load, the drive and the delivery are all done by Expedite. There is no carrier handoff and no warehouse transfer in the Carolinas, which is where most long-distance damage and most "your shipment is delayed" phone calls come from.
Coming south, the equivalent pages for the pickup end are our New Jersey movers and New York movers pages. The wider service area in the state is on the Florida movers page.
Yes. Local Boca moves are billed by the hour from our Sunrise branch, 30 minutes south, and we handle the building side — certificate of insurance, elevator reservation, gate clearance — the same way we do on a long-distance delivery. Written estimate before the day, and the tri-county moving disclosure with it.
It depends on the size of the load and the building's delivery window, and we put the window in writing before the truck is booked. Because our own crew drives the load and our Sunrise branch handles the delivery end, there is no transfer to a partner carrier and no waiting on a van line's schedule.
Yes. Send us the move-in packet, or tell us who manages the building, and we deliver the certificate and book the elevator before we schedule the pickup in the Northeast. Most Boca buildings allow moves only on weekdays and want them finished by late afternoon, so the delivery date is chosen around the building.
Yes, and increasingly often. It is the same route with the same crews, ending at our own yards in Rahway or Brooklyn. If the destination is not ready, the load can wait in our Rahway storage.
Roughly $2,000 to $4,500 for a studio or one bedroom, $4,000 to $7,500 for two bedrooms, and $6,000 to $11,000 or more for three. Larger homes are priced from a survey. The estimate is written and, where you want it, binding.
Yes. Florida Mover Registration No. IM3444, USDOT 2491702 for interstate work, New Jersey licence 39PC00116900 and New York DOT T-39418. Certificates of insurance go to your building or association on request.
Tell us where the move starts and where it ends, and the name of the building or community on the Boca end if there is one. We handle the certificate of insurance and the elevator booking — the estimate is in writing before the truck is scheduled.
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