San Anselmo Movers Who Know the Hub Traffic

San Anselmo fills the middle of the Ross Valley, with Fairfax to the west, Ross to the south and San Rafael over Red Hill to the east. Four areas make up most of the town:

Downtown and the creek

San Anselmo Avenue runs along San Anselmo Creek with antique shops, cafes and older storefronts. Nearby side streets hold small bungalows and cottages on narrow lots, sometimes with no driveway at all.

The valley floor

Flat, tree-lined blocks of single-family homes on both sides of Sir Francis Drake. The easiest access in town.

The hills

Streets wind up from downtown toward the ridges and around the seminary hill, where stone buildings look over the valley. Homes are built into the slope with steps to the door and narrow roads in front.

Sleepy Hollow

North of town along Butterfield Road, outside the town limits, with larger lots, longer driveways and county roads.

Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Red Hill Avenue meet at the Hub on the east side of town, and nearly every truck in or out of San Anselmo passes through it. With few other roads in the valley, it slows to a crawl at commute and school hours. Our drive to you is free, so traffic on the way in does not cost you anything. The drive between your two homes is billed, though, and a slow crawl through the Hub on that leg adds to the total, so it is worth keeping in mind when you pick a day.

A downtown cottage is usually our standard 3-mover crew at $175 an hour; a pair at $145 makes sense only for a very small load. A hill home with 4 or more bedrooms, or a 3-bedroom over 1,800 square feet, gets 4 movers at $235 an hour. You pay for at least 3 hours, then by the quarter hour, at one rate every day. Moving pads, tape, wardrobe boxes, floor covers and taking furniture apart and back together are all included; packing supplies are charged only as used. Extra stops on a local move, say a drop at a storage unit in San Rafael, cost only the time they take.

Typical cost to move in San Anselmo

For anyone comparing movers in San Anselmo, we pulled the hours from our own closed-out local moves rather than an online calculator, and the table below is the result. Read the numbers as a typical spread; the final number comes from the time on the job, billed hourly.

From our closed local jobs for direct customers, July to October 2026: the middle half of billed hours by home size, including the drive between your two addresses and excluding account, partner-billed and full-packing jobs. Supplies are charged as used, with a 3-hour minimum.

Bungalows near the Hub can have no driveway at all, and homes built into the slope have steps to the door, so the carry is what moves these jobs within their range.

In a straight line San Anselmo is about 57 miles northwest of downtown San Jose. On the road that means up the Peninsula, over the Golden Gate Bridge, then west from US-101 on Sir Francis Drake through Greenbrae and Kentfield. You are not billed for that drive. The drive between your pickup and drop-off is billed at double time only if the two are more than 10 minutes apart, a California requirement.

ZIP 94960 sent no quote requests between mid-July and late October 2026. Regionally, the 4 Marin requests from that recent window, not counting account work, were local moves that all went on to book or complete.

• Estimate visit. We look at the street, where a truck can stop, and the steps up to the house. We do not quote from a video.
• Access check. If the road looks too narrow or steep to turn our 26 ft truck, David checks the access before move day and tells you if a shuttle is needed, since that adds truck rental and labor.
• Curb space. If the truck has to hold space on a town street, the Town of San Anselmo sets the rules; in Sleepy Hollow it is Marin County. We check which applies.
• Day of. The crew calls about 30 minutes ahead, lays floor protection, and wraps every piece before it leaves the room.
• Delivery. Beds and tables are rebuilt and furniture is placed where you want it.

• Ross: south of town, big lots with long carries from the lane.
• San Rafael: over Red Hill, condos and apartments with city parking rules.
• Kentfield: down the boulevard, flats by the college and steep Kent Woodlands.
• Fairfax: next door to the west, with cabins up canyon roads.
• Greenbrae: at the 101 interchange, with condo complexes.

See packing and storage if you need help boxing up.