Mobile home movers in Horry County, SC work the largest county in the state by land area — a sweep of flat coastal plain that runs from the Little Pee Dee swamp west of Conway, the county seat, out to the Grand Strand and 60 miles of Atlantic beachfront around Myrtle Beach. Mobile Home Mover Pro is a licensed mover with our own crew, and we haul single-wides, double-wides, and modular sections across Horry County, north over the North Carolina line, and west into the Pee Dee. Two things shape almost every job here: the coastal wind standard the homes are anchored to, and the summer tourist traffic that decides when a wide load can legally roll.
How Horry County handles mobile-home moving permits
South Carolina gates the move through the tax office, and Horry is squarely SC. Under S.C. Code § 31-17-360, a manufactured home can't travel a public road until the county licensing agent issues a moving permit — and that permit isn't issued until the Horry County treasurer certifies the home's property taxes are current. Horry runs its building and moving permits through County Code Enforcement, and unlike the many SC counties that are still paper-only, Horry publishes its records through a live, queryable feed. The Horry County permit portal lists more than 169 manufactured-home permits on record spanning 2024–2026 — including 8 new-home setups, 5 relocations/moves, and 2 double-wide units — filed by 33 distinct licensed installers and movers, with Conway, Loris, Longs, and Myrtle Beach showing up most often in the records. So before we quote we already know how the county codes a job like yours and what it will expect at setup. For the broader process, see mobile home moving permits and our South Carolina mobile home moving laws guide.
The county and the routes: Conway, Myrtle Beach, US 17 and US 501
Horry County is a genuine highway funnel, and the road our crew picks decides the escort bill and the travel window. US 501 is the workhorse — the diagonal that ties Conway to Myrtle Beach and runs northwest toward Marion and the Pee Dee. US 17 is the coastal north–south spine: south through Murrells Inlet and Georgetown, north through Little River to the Wilmington, NC side of the line. SC 9 cuts across the northern county through Loris and Longs toward the state line, and SC 22 (the Conway Bypass) and SC 31 (Carolina Bays Parkway) give a crew a way around Myrtle Beach's worst summer congestion. The hazards here aren't grades — they're the seasonal Grand Strand traffic that forces wide-load moves into early-morning windows, the swamp crossings and weight-posted bridges over the Waccamaw River, and beach-area utility lines on the older Strand corridors. A crew lead pre-drives the route before we commit to a date.
The move process: disconnect, permit, haul, set and anchor
Every Horry County job runs the same four phases. First we disconnect — power, water, sewer, and any tie to a deck, porch, or hard skirting — and inspect the chassis, axles, and tires before the home leaves the ground. Second comes the paperwork: the Horry County treasurer's tax-paid certificate, the § 31-17-360 moving permit, the SCDMV title or de-title work, and escort coordination on the chosen corridor. Third we haul the home on a legal route inside the daylight window, with certified escorts front and rear for a wide load. Fourth we set and anchor: re-block the piers, bolt up the marriage line on a double-wide, level the chassis to a 1/4-inch tolerance, and tie the home down to the coastal wind standard. Pair the move with mobile home setup and mobile home leveling so the home is buttoned up the same week it lands, and see mobile home transport for the full haul scope.
Cost bands and the cross-state NC angle
A single-wide in-state move runs $3,000–$8,000 and a double-wide $7,000–$15,000; a cross-state relocation can reach $5,000–$25,000 depending on distance and section count. Horry County is flat, which works in your favor — no mountain grade burning toter hours — but the coast adds cost the upcountry doesn't: HUD Wind Zone II anchoring means a heavier tie-down package, and our crew sets it to HUD 24 CFR Part 3280, Subpart G. The cross-state lane is a real part of the work: Horry shares its whole northern border with North Carolina, so Little River and Loris moves over the line are routine. On those jobs we clear the SC § 31-17-360 permit and treasurer's certificate here, then file the NCDOT MH-2 oversize permit and the county tax permit under N.C.G.S. § 105-316.1 on the receiving end. For the full breakdown read how much it costs to move a mobile home, and for the lane itself see moving a mobile home across state lines. Horry anchors our coastal coverage for mobile home transport across SC.
Storms, FEMA, and manufactured homes in Horry County
Horry County, SC has been included in 28 federal disaster declarations for storms and flooding since 1989 — among them Hurricane Debby (2024), Hurricane Helene (2024), and Hurricane Ian (2023). Manufactured homes take the worst of every major storm — and each one puts homes on the move: damaged single- and double-wides hauled off, replacement units delivered, and families relocated to safer ground. When the wind passes, our crew is who you call to move, set, or remove a manufactured home in Horry County. (Source: FEMA OpenFEMA disaster-declaration data.)