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Whittier is older than most of the cities around it, and it shows. Founded by Quakers in 1887 and named for the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, the city kept its history in a way its postwar neighbors did not. Uptown Whittier still holds blocks of early brick commercial buildings, and Whittier College has anchored the town since the 1880s. The older neighborhoods around the core were laid out long before the car reshaped the suburbs. From there the city climbs north and east into the Puente Hills, where the streets curve and the homes sit on slopes. A move in Whittier depends on which Whittier you are moving to.
The flat historic core, around Uptown and the grid below it, has older homes with narrow doorways, tight rooms, and detail worth protecting. The historic commercial buildings of the district sit there too. The hillside neighborhoods to the north and east have sloped driveways, stepped approaches, and winding streets. A full-size truck needs a plan up there. Between them sit the postwar tracts that filled in the old citrus and walnut groves after the war. Each of these calls for a different approach on move day.
Royal Moving & Storage works Whittier and the surrounding Gateway Cities on a regular basis. Before quoting, we look at the home, the access, the grade if it is in the hills, the doorways if it is an older house, and the parking. With that in hand, we bring the right truck and crew, pull the city permit where needed, and set the day to your schedule, so the work runs cleanly from the first box.
A move within Whittier, or over to Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, La Mirada, or La Habra, is short in miles. The older streets and the hills shape the work. Narrow Uptown blocks, historic-home doorways, hillside grade in the north and east, and the parking around the commercial core all set the pace. We bring a truck sized to the street, plan the carry around the grade or the building, and reserve curb space where it helps. Local moves run on one flat rate, settled before any loading starts.
An older home near Uptown, a hillside house in the Whittier Hills, a postwar tract home on the flats, and a condominium or townhome near Whittwood are all Whittier addresses, and each calls for its own plan. The older home needs door and floor protection and care with original detail. The hillside house may have a sloped driveway and a long or stepped carry. The tract home may have tight rooms. We walk each property on site and build it a plan of its own before move day.
Whittier has a deep commercial base for its size. Much of it sits in Uptown’s historic district, along Whittier Boulevard, and around the Quad and Whittwood centers, with offices, medical buildings, retail, and the businesses tied to Whittier College and PIH Health. When a business here moves, time spent closed is the expensive part. We work around your open hours, evenings and weekends included, sort out any building access, and have your team running again at the new address fast.
A cross-country move gets the same attention here as a job across the Gateway Cities. You get a named crew, an inventory taken down on site before loading, a price locked at booking, and a delivery window you can plan around. The crew that loads the truck in Whittier is the crew that unloads it on arrival, with no broker in between. Whittier residents heading across the country get a move run at the level the home deserves.
Whittier’s older and hillside homes hold everything from antiques and heirlooms in the historic neighborhoods to the full furnishings of a family house on the flats. Every item is wrapped, padded, and cinched down before it clears the doorway. Moving pads, stretch wrap, floor runners, and jamb guards ride along on every job, and they prove their worth in an older home with narrow doorways or on a long carry down a hillside driveway. Fragile and high-value pieces get a separate handling plan, agreed with you beforehand.
Whittier moves often come with a gap, a sale that closes before the next place is ready, a remodel on an older home, or a household moving in stages. We keep your belongings in our secure, climate-controlled facility and return them once you are ready. The length of time is yours to choose, from a couple of weeks to several months.
The size of the home, the access, the grade, the doorways and detail of an older house, and the distance of the move all feed into your quote before we begin. The figure agreed at booking is the figure you pay at the close, and nothing extra is tacked on afterward.
A single coordinator stays on your move from first call to last box, holding the home, the access details, the permit, the schedule, and your inventory on one file. You will not be routed through a call center from one agent to another.
Anyone can pull up our reviews on Google, Yelp, and the BBB. One thread runs through them: the crew arrived on time, treated the home and its contents with care, and kept the final bill in line with the quote.
Royal Moving & Storage is licensed in California under CAL-T 191476, and cargo and liability coverage stands behind every job. When a building, an HOA, or a destination property calls for a certificate of insurance before the move starts, we have it prepared in advance.
Whittier is an independent charter city in southeastern Los Angeles County, about twelve miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, in the region known as the Gateway Cities. It covers about 14.7 square miles and holds roughly 87,306 residents. Because Whittier is its own city, it sets its own rules on truck access, oversized vehicles, and permits. It incorporated in 1898 and adopted a charter in 1955, and it runs on a council-manager government.
The city sits on the edge of the flats and climbs into the Puente Hills. The elevation rises toward the north and east. Whittier Boulevard is the main commercial spine, with Painter Avenue, Beverly Boulevard, Colima Road, and Hadley Street among the other main routes. The 605 Freeway runs along the west, while the 5 passes to the south. Whittier borders Pico Rivera to the west and Santa Fe Springs to the south and southwest. La Mirada lies to the southeast and La Habra, in Orange County, to the east, with unincorporated West, South, and East Whittier wrapping parts of its edges.
The housing runs from the historic homes around Uptown to hillside houses in the Whittier Hills and postwar tract homes on the flats. Apartments and condominiums sit near the commercial centers. The population is large and diverse, with a significant Latino community. Homeownership is high. Two landmarks sit near the heart of the city: Uptown Whittier, the preserved historic commercial district, and Whittier College, the private liberal arts school whose teams are known as the Poets.
The land was home to the Tongva people. During the Mexican era, much of it belonged to Pio Pico, the last Mexican governor of California, who built a ranch home on the San Gabriel River that survives today as Pio Pico State Historic Park. After the Mexican-American War, a German immigrant named Jacob Gerkens homesteaded 160 acres in 1868. He built a cabin that still stands as the Jonathan Bailey House.
In 1887, a group of Quakers bought the land, expanding it to more than 1,200 acres, to found a Quaker community. They named the town for John Greenleaf Whittier, the nineteenth-century Quaker poet, though he never saw the place. The first Quaker meetings were held on the porch of the Bailey House. The community set aside land for a college that opened as Whittier Academy in 1887 and became Whittier College. A railroad spur reached the town the same year. The citrus and walnut groves that followed made Whittier famous, with Quaker Brand citrus shipped worldwide and the area becoming the largest walnut-growing region in the country.
Whittier incorporated in 1898 with 585 residents. In 1904, the Pacific Electric Big Red Cars trolley line connected it to Los Angeles. It carried more than a million passengers a year in its early decades. The groves gave way to housing after World War II. The Civic Center was completed in 1955, and a large annexation in 1961 added tens of thousands of residents. The city grew into the diverse Gateway community it is today, while keeping the historic Uptown core and the college that have anchored it from the start.
Whittier is an independent city, so a move here works under City Hall rather than the county or the City of Los Angeles. For a larger move, the city grants a temporary no-parking permit that keeps curb space open at the address. Our team handles the filing and posts the signs ahead of time. The permit matters most around Uptown, where the older blocks are narrow, and the commercial district is busy, and on the hillside streets, where there is little room to leave a truck.
The age of the housing shapes much of the work. The older homes around Uptown and the historic neighborhoods have narrow doorways, tight staircases, and original detail that should not be scuffed. We bring door, railing, and floor protection as a matter of course and plan the carry to suit an older house. The historic commercial buildings in the district have their own quirks, from narrow access to upper floors without elevators. We account for those on commercial moves.
The hills are the other factor. Whittier climbs into the Puente Hills to the north and east, where homes sit on sloped lots behind curving streets and steep driveways. That can mean a long carry from where the truck can park, a stepped approach, and a shuttle plan for the heaviest pieces. We work all of that out in advance. The postwar tracts on the flats are more straightforward, with driveways and garages. The permit, the access, and the truck size are all squared away before move day, so nothing holds up the job once the crew arrives.
Local crews covering Whittier, southeast Los Angeles County, the San Gabriel Valley edge, and nearby communities along Whittier Boulevard, Colima Road, the 605, 5, and 60 corridors.
An older home near Uptown, a house in the Whittier Hills, a postwar tract home, a condo near Whittwood, or a business in the historic district, a move across the Gateway Cities or across the country, we have handled it. Call (424) 500-2221 or submit the form, and a reply will reach you the same day.
Your cost depends on the size of the home, the access, the grade if you are in the hills, the parking, and how far the move goes. Royal Moving & Storage spells out each quote line by line, holding nothing back. Ask for a free estimate fitted to your property.
