Movers in Irvine, CA

Irvine is our home base, and we do a lot of moves here, in houses and apartments, in both older and newer Irvine Company communities. Some newer apartment complexes are confusing to navigate, with a long route between parking and the apartment. Some older properties have narrower stairs and no elevator.

We're used to these different layouts and plan each move around the access available. Stairs, elevators and long walks from the truck have no separate surcharge.

Irvine was laid out as villages under the Irvine Company's master plan, and each one moves a little differently. Woodbridge has 9,292 homes built in the 1970s and 1980s around two man-made lakes. Turtle Rock was the first hillside village on the Irvine Ranch. Many Northwood neighborhoods are individually gated, and Shady Canyon is gated and hilly. Portola Springs mixes hilly and flat land along Lomas Ridge.

The housing is young: the median Irvine home was built in 2002, and a third were built in 2010 or later (Census ACS 2020–2024). With 307,670 residents at the 2020 Census and 21.7% of them moving each year, Irvine sees a lot of moves, and most of them are apartments, condos and townhomes.

Before moving day, check with your leasing office or HOA: where the truck can park for loading, whether there's a loading area, whether the elevator needs a reservation, and whether the building has set move-in or move-out hours. Do the same for the building you're moving into. Irvine Company's own moving guide tells residents to scout where in the community the truck can park.

Some Irvine neighborhoods are preferential (permit-only) parking districts. Vehicles actively making pickups or deliveries to a home there are exempt, but not overnight (Municipal Code Sec. 6-3-814). Tell us what you find out, and we'll plan the crew and timing around it.

No vehicle may stay on a public street longer than 72 hours (Sec. 6-3-574), and no one may park during a street's posted sweeping hours (Sec. 6-3-578). Residential streets are swept twice a month, Tuesday to Friday between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., so check your street's day before you book.

Some signed streets have weight limits: over 14,000 lb on parts of Campus Drive, Culver Drive, Jeffrey Road, Yale Avenue and others, and over 6,000 lb on parts of Bonita Canyon Road, Culver Drive, University Drive and Shady Canyon Drive. A truck coming by direct route from a truck route to make a pickup or delivery on that street is exempt (Sec. 6-3-567). On residentially zoned property, commercial vehicles may stay only as long as needed to pick up or deliver goods (Zoning Sec. 3-34-1).

UC Irvine has 18,003 student beds on campus for fall 2026, housing about half its students, so many others rent nearby. Fall classes begin September 24, 2026, and the spring quarter ends June 11, 2027. If your move is near campus and falls around those dates, ask for your date early.