{"id":3007,"date":"2015-12-15T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2023-10-17T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:50:22","slug":"uk-removals-industry-news-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/uk-removals-industry-news-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Removals Industry News and Statistics &#8211; 2015 Publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As this year comes to its end, it is time to reflect on the past and make resolutions for the upcoming one. We, the team behind RemovalReviews.co.uk have prepared annual statistics with relocation related data, which came from the thousands removal requests and reviews that we received throughout 2014 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Find out which were the most wanted cities to relocate to, how much did the move cost and many more interesting numbers and comprehensive analysis.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3009 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/removal-company-trends-removalreviews.jpg\" alt=\"removal-company-trends-removalreviews\" data-aspectratio=\"680\/4055\" width=\"680\" height=\"4055\" \/><br \/>\nYou want this awesome data visualization on your website? Just copy the code below and paste it in your website:<br \/>\n<!-- No shortcodes are defined --><\/div>\n<h2>Move size<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Partial move \u2013 7.61%<\/li>\n<li>Studio \u2013 3.59%<\/li>\n<li>1-bedroom \u2013 17.86%<\/li>\n<li>2-bedroom \u2013 28.74%<\/li>\n<li>3-bedroom \u2013 28.35%<\/li>\n<li>4-bedroom and above \u2013 13.85%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than half of the moves in 2015 were 2 and 3-bedroom home moves. It seems that the people moving small size homes prefer to move by themselves. People inclined to look for a moving quote and full-service removal companies usually occupy larger residences.<\/p>\n<h2>Busiest move dates<\/h2>\n<p>The busiest date to move in UK was July 31st 2015, followed by April 30th and May 29th. According to our data, these were the most requested move dates.<\/p>\n<h2>Busiest months to move<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January \u2013 5.07%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>February \u2013 7.16%<\/li>\n<li>March \u2013 9.27%<\/li>\n<li>April \u2013 8.67%<\/li>\n<li>May \u2013 10.08%<\/li>\n<li>June \u2013 9.07%<\/li>\n<li><strong>July \u2013 11.31%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>August -11.62%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>September \u2013 9.89%<\/li>\n<li>October \u2013 8.55%<\/li>\n<li>November \u2013 6.54%<\/li>\n<li><strong>December \u2013 2.77%<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The highest number of moves took place in July and August. However, there is no extreme contrast between all months. Except for January and December, the volume is evenly distributed, with all months having a rate near to 10%.<\/p>\n<h2>Busiest day of the week<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday \u2013 15.09%<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday \u2013 10.60%<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday \u2013 11.28%<\/li>\n<li>Thursday \u2013 14.39%<\/li>\n<li>Friday \u2013 26.48%<\/li>\n<li>Saturday \u2013 18.27%<\/li>\n<li>Sunday \u2013 3.89%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most of the moves took place in Friday and Saturday. This comes as no surprise, as people prefer to take advantage of the weekend instead of taking days off from work. Sunday is the least preferred day for relocation.<\/p>\n<h2>Cities with positive net migration<\/h2>\n<p>These are the largest growing cities in UK for 2015.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>London<\/li>\n<li>Manchester<\/li>\n<li>Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>Glasgow<\/li>\n<li>Liverpool<\/li>\n<li>Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>Cardiff<\/li>\n<li>Bristol<\/li>\n<li>Sheffield<\/li>\n<li>Leicester<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It is no surprise that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/uk\/moving-companies\/london-44750\">London<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/uk\/moving-companies\/manchester-46009\">Manchester<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/uk\/moving-companies\/birmingham-45754\">Birmingham<\/a> are the three cities the gained the most population in terms of migration.<\/p>\n<h2>Moves out of the\u00a0UK<\/h2>\n<p>Most of the people who moved out of the UK relocated to the USA, Ireland, France, Spain and Australia the most. As whole, most of the removals were to European countries.\u00a0Germany, \u00a0Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand and Italy were some of the other popular destinations for Brits.<\/p>\n<h2>Average costs to move within UK<\/h2>\n<p>Although, there has been a slight decline in the price, it turns out that the average removals cost hasn\u2019t changed much over the last three years. <a href=\"\/move\/average-moving-costs\/\">The average price<\/a> for a domestic move is about GBP 1000. Here is some more information on <a href=\"\/move\/why-are-removal-companies-expensive\/\">how the removals price is calculated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this year comes to its end, it is time to reflect on the past and make resolutions for the upcoming one. We, the team behind RemovalReviews.co.uk have prepared annual statistics with relocation related data, which came from the thousands removal requests and reviews that we received throughout 2014 and 2015. Find out which were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/uk-removals-industry-news-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;UK Removals Industry News and Statistics &#8211; 2015 Publication&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-news","tag-advice-for-removal-companies","entry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/stats.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Manuella Irwin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.removalreviews.co.uk\/move\/author\/manuella\/"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK Removal Industry Statistics - 2015 Publication<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Find out removal industry trends and news for 2015. 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