How Birmingham is built — and why it changes the price
147 square miles for 196,000 people works out to about 1,335 per square mile. In a Birmingham that open, the map does as much to set the price as the load does.
Roughly 57% of Birmingham homes stand detached, with 33% in buildings of five units or more. The majority of pickups start at ground level, which keeps the range on this page toward the lower end.
With 55% of Birmingham homes rented, the city sits close to an even split between move-out clear-outs and owner cleanouts. Both are common enough that local pros quote either without blinking. The median home here dates to 1965 — mid-century stock, usually with an attached garage, which is where the load tends to be.
Measured from the city centre, our closest other coverage is Huntsville (81 miles), Atlanta (138 miles) and Nashville (183 miles). Pros work across those lines all day, so the bids on a Birmingham job often come from trucks that started the morning somewhere else entirely.