Sydney Moving Trends 2026.
What 2,930 completed A1 Removalists Sydney jobs reveal about peak moving months, the busiest days of the week, suburb-level demand and interstate routes across the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
2,930
cleaned completed moves
12
months: Jul 2025 to Jun 2026
317
moves in the peak month
556
interstate moves recorded
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ABOUT THIS REPORT
A first-party look at how Sydney actually moves.
A1 Removalists Sydney completes several thousand home and office moves across Greater Sydney every year. Rather than keep that operational data internal, we cleaned and anonymised twelve months of job records and are publishing the findings for local media, property sites and anyone researching Sydney’s relocation patterns.
How to read the numbers on this page. Every figure below describes the company’s own completed customer jobs between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026. It is first-party operational data, not an official measure of population movement or total Sydney migration. Where the report compares periods (such as the first half of 2026 against the second half of 2025), that is an internal workload comparison, not a year-on-year market growth estimate. Full detail is in the methodology section below.
The dataset started as 3,994 exported rows and was reduced to 2,930 completed moves after removing duplicates, cancellations, storage-only billing and records outside the reporting period. No customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, full street addresses or payment details were included at any stage.
HEADLINE FINDINGS
The numbers journalists keep asking us for.
A quick-reference summary of the report’s most citable figures, each one drawn directly from the underlying cleaned job data.
37.1%
more completed jobs in H1 2026 than H2 2025
37.0%
of all jobs fell on a Friday or Saturday
556
interstate moves in the dataset
January was the peak month. The business completed 317 moves in January 2026, the busiest single month in the 12-month period, following a broadly steady rise from July’s low of 175.
The first half of 2026 ran well ahead of the second half of 2025. 1,694 completed jobs were recorded from January to June 2026, against 1,236 from July to December 2025, an increase of 458 jobs. This is an internal workload signal rather than a claim about the broader Sydney moving market.
Friday and Saturday carry more than a third of demand. Together they accounted for 1,085 of the 2,930 completed jobs, while Sunday was the quietest day by a wide margin.
Queensland and Victoria dominate interstate work. Of the interstate jobs identified in this dataset, the two states received 89.0% of moves leaving NSW and supplied 93.8% of moves arriving into NSW.
Kellyville and Box Hill lead observed inbound demand, while Sydney CBD and Leichhardt show the largest net outbound balance among the residential jobs identified in this dataset.
“Our job records show when and where Sydney families are moving. We hope these insights help people plan their move with greater confidence.“
Oliver Mikha
Director, A1 Removalists Sydney
SEASONALITY
Recorded activity accelerated into 2026.
Monthly completed moves after the cleaning and deduplication rules described in the methodology section were applied. January 2026 led every other month, with May and April close behind.
1,236
completed moves, Jul to Dec 2025
1,694
completed moves, Jan to Jun 2026
+458
additional moves recorded in H1 2026
The rise from December into January lines up with the traditional new-year relocation window, when leases turn over and families move before the school term starts. the business treats the shift as an internal planning trigger for crew rosters and truck maintenance rather than proof of wider market growth, since a full prior financial year of comparable data is not yet available. Anyone planning a move in this window can get ahead of the rush through the online booking form.
WEEKLY RHYTHM
Friday and Saturday carry the heaviest load.
Day-by-day completed jobs across the full 12-month period, showing a clear end-of-week concentration.
Fri + Sat: 1,085 · Other days: 1,845
| Day | Completed jobs | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 422 | 14.4% |
| Tuesday | 422 | 14.4% |
| Wednesday | 392 | 13.4% |
| Thursday | 469 | 16.0% |
| Friday | 562 | 19.2% |
| Saturday | 523 | 17.8% |
| Sunday | 140 | 4.8% |
For anyone with a flexible schedule, booking a home removal on a weekday rather than the Friday to Saturday window tends to mean earlier crew availability. Those set on a weekend slot are best booking well ahead through the booking page.
LOCAL DEMAND
Where Sydney is moving to, and from.
Net balance equals residential arrivals minus departures for each suburb, where a suburb could be identified. Commercial and recurring depot-style jobs are excluded from this ranking, and figures reflect A1’s own completed jobs rather than total suburb population change.
| Inbound suburb | Net | Outbound suburb | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kellyville | +12 | Sydney CBD | -15 |
| Box Hill | +11 | Leichhardt | -15 |
| Marrickville | +8 | Campbelltown | -7 |
| Lidcombe | +8 | Bankstown | -7 |
| Macquarie Park | +7 | Kogarah | -7 |
Kellyville and Box Hill show the strongest net inbound demand in this residential data, consistent with continued growth in Sydney’s North West growth corridor. Sydney CBD and Leichhardt show the largest net outbound balance, which fits established patterns of inner-city renters and owners trading density for more space further out.
A1 services all of these areas directly. Suburb-specific removalist pages: Kellyville, Box Hill, Marrickville, Lidcombe, Sydney CBD, Leichhardt, Campbelltown, Bankstown, Kogarah and Merrylands.
These suburb figures sit within the 2,183 household-style moves in the dataset, the residential subset that supports the suburb, interstate and access findings in this report, rather than the full 2,930 completed jobs, since commercial and depot-style jobs are excluded from suburb rankings.
INTERSTATE DEMAND
Queensland and Victoria dominate interstate moves.
Interstate totals are limited to household-style jobs where both the origin and destination state were reliably captured in the records.
Outbound from NSW Inbound to NSW
301
moves recorded out of NSW
195
moves recorded into NSW
89.0%
of outbound moves went to QLD or VIC
Of the 556 interstate records, 301 originated in NSW and 195 were delivered to NSW. The remaining 60 records were interstate moves where neither the origin nor the destination was NSW.
Queensland alone received 155 outbound NSW moves, with Victoria close behind on 113. The inbound pattern mirrors it almost exactly: Queensland supplied 92 moves into NSW and Victoria supplied 91, together accounting for 93.8% of inbound interstate work. For anyone planning a move along either corridor, the interstate removalist service covers the full move end to end.
PROPERTY & ACCESS
More than a third of moves involve an apartment or complex.
Property and access figures come from keywords in free-text pickup addresses and job notes, so they indicate a pattern rather than an audited count. A missing keyword does not necessarily mean the feature was absent.
Apartment or complex: 650 jobs
House or other: 1,139 jobs
Just over a third of the residential pickups in this dataset were flagged as an apartment or complex, out of 1,789 residential-looking endpoints with an identifiable property type. It’s one of the reasons access details, stairs, lift availability and building rules, are worth confirming at booking rather than on the day. The home removalist service covers everything from ground-floor houses to high-rise apartment moves.
95
jobs mentioned stairs or steps
40
jobs mentioned a lift or elevator
METHODOLOGY & LIMITS
How the data was cleaned, and what it can’t tell us.
This report is built to be useful without overstating what the job records can prove.
3,994
raw exported rows
2,930
cleaned completed moves
69.6%
pickup suburb or state coverage
Cleaning steps applied
- Exact duplicates were removed first.
- Records outside the 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026 reporting window were removed next.
- Rows missing a complete route were removed.
- Storage-only billing rows were removed.
- Other inactive, test, cancelled or incomplete rows were removed.
- Any remaining repeated entries for the same job date and route, whether logged on the same day or across separate days, were collapsed into a single record for that move.
Exact duplicate: a record sharing the same job date and the same normalised pickup-to-delivery route as another completed move already counted.
Missing route: a record where either the pickup or delivery location was not recorded at all.
| Cleaning step | Rows removed or collapsed |
|---|---|
| Exact duplicate rows removed | 106 |
| Outside reporting period or invalid date | 446 |
| Missing route | 176 |
| Storage billing | 44 |
| Other inactive, test, cancelled or incomplete rows | 37 |
| Same-day repeat rows collapsed | 106 |
| Multi-day repeat rows collapsed | 149 |
| Final cleaned completed moves | 2,930 |
Important limits
Pickup locations were parsed for 69.6% of cleaned jobs and delivery locations for 69.2%. Unparsed records remain in the overall totals but are excluded from the suburb rankings.
The suburb analysis is an anonymised sample of A1’s recorded work, not a measure of total Sydney migration.
Property and access results are keyword indicators drawn from free text, not audited classifications.
The exports used for this report do not contain a dependable booking-created timestamp or a complete July 2024 to June 2025 comparison period, so year-on-year comparisons are not yet possible.
Raw pickup and delivery addresses were used only internally to derive suburb, state and property-type indicators. Once those indicators were extracted, the underlying addresses were removed and do not appear anywhere in the analytical dataset or in this report.
Customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, full street addresses and payment data were excluded from every stage of the analysis.
FOR JOURNALISTS & PUBLISHERS
How to reference this report.
Every chart and figure on this page is free to reference in news coverage, blog posts or property market analysis. We ask only that you link back to the original report so readers can see the full methodology.
Suggested attribution
Source: A1 Removalists Sydney, Sydney Moving Trends 2026
https://www.a1removalistssydney.com.au/sydney-moving-trends-2026/
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Anonymised operational data. Not official population migration statistics. Report prepared 28 July 2026 by A1 Removalists Sydney, covering completed jobs from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.
