Where Dallas–Fort Worth moved in 2026

Between January 2 and November 5 this year, we finished 5,411 moves around Dallas–Fort Worth. Put all of those addresses and dates side by side and they draw a pretty clear picture of where people here are going, how far they go, and when they go. Here's what our own numbers show.

For every two moves into Dallas, three moved out

Dallas was our busiest city by a long way, with 1,697 moves starting or ending there, and about half of the Dallas moves where we know both addresses stayed inside the city. When a move did cross the city line, though, it was more likely to be leaving. We did 474 moves from Dallas to another city and 322 the other way.

Plano was the most common other end in both directions: 47 moves went from Dallas to Plano, and 27 came from Plano to Dallas. Richardson, Mesquite and Carrollton pulled people out of Dallas the same way. Irving was the exception, with a few more of its moves heading into Dallas than out.

Other city	Dallas to there	There to Dallas
Plano	47	27
Carrollton	36	21
Frisco	27	22
Irving	20	24
Arlington	23	18
Richardson	29	11
Mesquite	25	12
Garland	22	14
Addison	21	12
Every other city, in total	474	322

The nine cities that traded the most moves with Dallas, January 2 to November 5, 2026. The total row counts every city, not just these nine.

Frisco is where the move north starts

Frisco had more moves than any city but Dallas, 544 of them, and its 75034 ZIP code was the busiest single ZIP code we worked in all year. Frisco also sent a lot of its movers further north. It was the most common starting point for moves into McKinney, Little Elm, Celina, Prosper and Aubrey, and nearly half of the moves that left Frisco for another city went to one of those five. Twice as many moves went from Frisco to McKinney (32) as from McKinney to Frisco (16).

Celina pulled the hardest. For every move out of Celina to another city, about three came in, and its 75009 ZIP code gained more moves than any other ZIP code we worked in. McKinney gained too, with 139 moves in and 111 out, and its 75071 ZIP code was next on the list after Celina's.

City	Moves in	Moves out
Celina	56	18
McKinney	139	111
Carrollton	109	86
Little Elm	52	37
Arlington	116	134
The Colony	36	54
Frisco	162	183
Grand Prairie	81	104
Irving	78	116
Dallas	322	474

Moves that crossed a city line. Of the cities with at least 60 moves across their line, these are the four that gained the most and the six that lost the most.

Most people didn't move far

Half of our moves went less than six miles, measured in a straight line from the old address to the new one, and two in three went less than ten. Roads make every trip a bit longer than a straight line, but the pattern is clear: most people move within their own part of town. About one in four stayed in the same ZIP code, and 43 percent stayed in the same city.

House moves went only a little further than apartment moves. Half of house moves were under 6.3 miles, and half of apartment moves were under 5.4.

The busiest ZIP codes were in Frisco, Uptown and The Colony

Frisco's 75034 topped the list with 244 moves. Uptown's 75204 came second with 212, the most of any Dallas ZIP code, which is why we wanted our Dallas office there. Uptown moves are often short hops, too. Three out of four moves that left 75204 for another ZIP code stayed in Dallas, most often heading downtown, to Oak Lawn, or over to 75206.

ZIP code	Where	Moves
75034	Frisco	244
75204	Dallas, Uptown	212
75056	The Colony and Lewisville	185
75070	McKinney	170
75052	Grand Prairie	169
75033	Frisco	159
75035	Frisco	158
75287	Far North Dallas	156
75071	McKinney	152
75206	Dallas, Lower Greenville	147

A move counts once for each ZIP code it touched, starting or ending.

The further north you go, the more of the moves are houses

Across all of our moves, about six in ten were apartments and about one in four were houses, with storage units and smaller loads making up the rest. That's no surprise, since renters move more often than owners do. But the mix changes a lot from city to city. Half of our Little Elm moves were houses, and about four in ten in Aubrey and Celina. In Dallas it was about one in seven, and in Addison about one in twelve.

We're set up for both, from apartments with service elevators and loading docks to houses with a garage to empty, and houses are the biggest jobs we do.

City	Houses	Apartments
Little Elm	51%	33%
Aubrey	42%	42%
Celina	39%	45%
Prosper	35%	49%
Allen	31%	56%
Frisco	29%	56%
McKinney	28%	57%
Plano	21%	63%
Irving	16%	74%
Dallas	14%	70%
Addison	8%	74%

Share of each city's moves by the home size booked. The rest were storage units, single rooms, and moves booked by bedroom count without saying which kind of home.

Saturdays, month ends and June were the busiest times

Saturday was the busiest day of the week by a distance, with about a quarter of all our moves. Friday came next with about a fifth. Monday and Tuesday were the quietest, with about one move in ten each.

The date mattered just as much. On the last two days of each month and on the 1st, we did about 50 percent more moves a day than on other days. You'd expect that from leases ending, and that's part of it, but house moves bunched up at the turn of the month just as much as apartment moves did.

June was our busiest month, and May through August made up half of all our moves from January to October. Our busiest single day was Saturday, June 20, with about two and a half times the moves of an average day.

Day	Share of moves
Monday	9.7%
Tuesday	9.6%
Wednesday	10.8%
Thursday	13.0%
Friday	19.2%
Saturday	24.4%
Sunday	13.2%

Month	Moves
January	405
February	460
March	516
April	466
May	677
June	743
July	707
August	582
September	393
October	409

January to October 2026. A few dozen September and October moves hadn't been closed out in our system yet, so those two months may rise slightly.

What this means if you're planning a move

If your dates are flexible, a Monday to Thursday in the middle of the month is when we have the most room. If you're moving at the end of a month, on a Saturday, or any time in June, book as early as you can. Many movers charge much more on weekends and at the end of the month. Our rate is currently the same every day, though it has changed by date at times, so check the rate on your quote.

And with half of all moves under six miles, the drive between homes is usually a small part of the day. Most of the time goes into loading and unloading, which is why being packed and ready before your buddies arrive saves you the most. Our guide to what a Dallas move costs has the whole list. As a rough guide, a one-bedroom takes two to four hours, a two-bedroom three to five, and a 1,200–1,600 sq ft house four to six.

How we counted

• Every move we completed with a moving date from January 2 to November 5, 2026, as recorded in our scheduling system: 5,411 in all. We pulled the numbers on November 6.
• Cities and ZIP codes come from the move addresses. We used the city in the mailing address, which doesn't always match city limits. A move counts for every city and ZIP code it touched, so a move from Dallas to Plano counts for both, and the city totals add up to more than 5,411.
• The from-and-to figures use the 5,034 moves where we know both the starting and the ending address. Load-only, unload-only and packing-only jobs are left out of those.
• Distances are straight lines from the old address to the new one. We had exact map points for both ends of 2,181 moves, and half of those went less than 5.3 miles. Measuring all 4,926 moves with two known ZIP codes between ZIP code centers instead put the middle move at 5.8 miles, so the two methods agree.
• Apartments and houses are the home sizes customers booked: apartments by bedroom count, and houses by square footage.
• There are no names, addresses or prices in any of this, only totals. And it's one moving company's customers, not everyone who moved in DFW, so it leans toward the places we work most.

If you're a reporter writing about where Dallas–Fort Worth is moving, email me at trent@buddymoving.com and I'll walk you through any of these numbers.