Research: the average household moves with 96 boxes

How many moving boxes do you really need? Oomen Movers & Storage looked into it using the surveys of 6,033 private moves since 2021. The average household moves with 96 boxes: 79 standard moving boxes, 15 book boxes and a few XL boxes.

The well-known rule of thumb of one to two boxes per square metre only holds for small homes. A home of up to 60 m² needs 63 boxes, just over one per square metre. At 200 m² or more it is 144, about half a box per m².

There are differences between places too. Wassenaar (135 boxes) and Amstelveen (123 boxes) move with the most boxes. Relative to their homes, residents of Amstelveen and Voorburg own 10% more than you would expect. In Tilburg and Katwijk people travel lightest.

All figures by floor area, type of home and place, with tips from our movers, are in the research into moving boxes.