What does a two-bedroom move in Bowness cost?

$823 is the median for a two-bedroom house move in Bowness, with half of the 21 completed at this size falling between $542 and $1,317. That is two movers, one truck and 4.75 hours on site, and it is the size this community produces most. The width of that price band is the difference between a home on a single level and one with a basement to clear.

Why is the range of prices in Bowness so wide?

Because one median covers every size and shape of home, and the housing here is mixed. The middle half of local jobs ran from $508 to $1,216, and the three-bedroom card alone spans $500 to $1,595. Since a local move is billed by the hour, the number of stairs between the rooms and the truck moves a total as much as the bedroom count does.

How many movers will a move in Bowness need?

Two is the median crew here, and half of the 86 completed jobs used two or three. Size is what decides it: the cards above put two movers on a one-bedroom and a two-bedroom, and three from three bedrooms upward. A bigger crew means a higher hourly rate and a shorter day, so the total often lands in a similar place either way.

Is it cheaper to move at a certain time of year in Bowness?

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Bowness is priced differently from another. Our completed work here does cluster a little, with July, August and April carrying the most moves, but that is a count of jobs already done rather than a price signal.

Cactus Moving crews on moving day, photo collage

Bowness Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed over 80 residential moves inside Bowness’s own community boundary, 46 of them in the last twelve months. Here is what they cost, how long they ran and what the City wants at the curb.

Call Cactus Moving now!

(403) 805-5855

Licensed, insured & bonded · 8,956 moves on record since April 2024 730 · written five-star Google reviews

Get your free estimate

No obligation. No deposit for local moves.

Movers in Bowness: what we know about moving here

Bowness is an older northwest community where tenure sits close to an even split between owning and renting. The housing alone would not predict that, since most of the stock here is houses, townhouses and duplexes rather than apartment blocks. For a crew that means a front door and a driveway far more often than a lobby and a lift, but a lease date about as often as a possession date.

The work itself sits in the middle of everything. 59% of the moves completed inside Bowness graded small and 7% large, the median crew was two movers, and the middle day ran 4 hours on site. The median local move came to $806 with tax across 75 priced jobs, and the four cards below split that same work by the size of the home.

Bowness neighbourhood guide for moving day

Bowness rents about as much as it owns, and a rented move is pinned to a lease turnover rather than to a possession date, which is part of why the work here spreads the way it does. The kerb is the second thing worth planning. Calgary issues a Street Use Permit for occupying the road, the temporary no-parking permit comes bundled into it at $31.50 a day for short work, and the City asks for the application at least 5 days before the truck arrives. If the block sits in a paid parking zone, ParkPlus fees are charged on top of that.

Bowness is largely built out in the 1950s

2019 municipal census · the City’s own community-structure label

People: 10,770
One-person households: 36%

2021 federal census

Homes: 5,398
What people live in: 44% single-detached houses
17% townhouses
17% duplexes
Owned or rented: 47% owned
53% rented

2019 municipal census

Booking the curb

Street Use Permit (with an accompanying Temporary No Parking Permit)

City of Calgary

What it costs: Street Use Permit stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use; the Temporary No Parking Permit is included in the Street Use Permit cost. ParkPlus parking fees apply on top if the restriction is in a paid parking zone.
How much notice: Apply at least 5 days in advance of the planned work for lower-impact work such as a residential move. Incomplete applications, revisions, or changes after submission can extend these timelines.

Where Bowness is. A locator map from Google, not a coverage map.

Not sure whether your street needs a Street Use Permit for the truck? Booking the curb in Bowness is something we do every week: talk to our Calgary team

Bowness moving costs, by the numbers

Over 80 residential jobs sit behind that band. A move counts as a Bowness move when the community boundary contains the loading address, the unloading address, or both, so the count takes in people arriving as well as people leaving. Forty-six of them ran inside the last twelve months, better than half the record, so most of what this band describes is recent work. The hours and crew figures come from 86 jobs, a wider base than the 75 with a settled price, because not every completed move ends with a final invoice attached.

What a local move cost: $806 median
Residential moves in Bowness: over 80
In the last 12 months: 46
Crew hours on site: 4 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Bowness’s own community boundary about 4.7 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

Call Calgary or get a quote online. Either works.

Get my free estimate (403) 805-5855

What a move in Bowness actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 86 completed residential jobs in Bowness. Another 33 were storage runs, container loads and part-home jobs whose paperwork records no bedroom count; they belong to none of the four.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Bowness

$829
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $632 and $1,047 · 14 moves

4.88 hours on site half ran 3.5–6.25 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two movers and one truck, and a median of 4.88 hours on site, which is long for a one-bedroom. In a community of houses a one-bedroom often means a suite inside one rather than a flat in a block. Half of the 14 completed at this size ran between 3.5 and 6.25 hours and cost between $632 and $1,047. The stairs between the suite and the street are usually what decide which half of that band a job lands in.

16% of the moves we have completed in Bowness · 14 moves

A two-bedroom house move in Bowness

$823
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $542 and $1,317 · 21 moves

4.75 hours on site half ran 3.25–6 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

The most common size Bowness produces, at nearly a quarter of the work here: two movers, one truck and a median of 4.75 hours on site. Half of the 21 completed at this size ran between 3.25 and 6 hours, but cost anywhere between $542 and $1,317, a much wider price band than the hours would suggest, because a two-bedroom house here can be a single level or a home with a basement to clear.

24% of the moves we have completed in Bowness · 21 moves

A three-bedroom move in Bowness

$1,235
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $500 and $1,595 · 12 moves

5.75 hours on site half ran 3.25–7.56 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

At three bedrooms the crew goes to three movers and the median day runs 5.75 hours on site, with half of the 12 completed at this size between 3.25 and 7.56 hours. The price band is the widest on the page, $500 to $1,595, because at this size some jobs are a full house and others are a part-home load. A walkthrough before the date is what tells you which of the two yours is.

14% of the moves we have completed in Bowness · 12 moves

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Bowness

$1,139
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $808 and $1,535 · 6 moves

4.13 hours on site half ran 4–7.06 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Three movers, one truck and a median of 4.13 hours: the six four-bedroom-plus jobs on the Bowness record ran shorter than the three-bedroom ones did, which is what a short list does to a median. Half of them cost between $808 and $1,535 and half ran between 4 and 7.06 hours. Read this card as the middle of a handful of days rather than as a rate. At this size the packing done before the crew arrives decides the length of the day.

7% of the moves we have completed in Bowness · 6 moves

Found the card that looks like your move? Where in its band you land is decided by your date, your building and your stairs. Get a quote for your own

How much does it cost to move in Bowness?

The median local move in Bowness costs $806, total cost with tax, and half of the 75 local jobs priced here fell between $508 and $1,216. That is a little above the $781 median across the surrounding northwest Calgary communities, on a tighter spread.

What does a two-bedroom move in Bowness cost?

$823 is the median for a two-bedroom house move in Bowness, with half of the 21 completed at this size falling between $542 and $1,317. That is two movers, one truck and 4.75 hours on site, and it is the size this community produces most. The width of that price band is the difference between a home on a single level and one with a basement to clear.
Why is the range of prices in Bowness so wide?

Because one median covers every size and shape of home, and the housing here is mixed. The middle half of local jobs ran from $508 to $1,216, and the three-bedroom card alone spans $500 to $1,595. Since a local move is billed by the hour, the number of stairs between the rooms and the truck moves a total as much as the bedroom count does.
How many movers will a move in Bowness need?

Two is the median crew here, and half of the 86 completed jobs used two or three. Size is what decides it: the cards above put two movers on a one-bedroom and a two-bedroom, and three from three bedrooms upward. A bigger crew means a higher hourly rate and a shorter day, so the total often lands in a similar place either way.
Is it cheaper to move at a certain time of year in Bowness?

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Bowness is priced differently from another. Our completed work here does cluster a little, with July, August and April carrying the most moves, but that is a count of jobs already done rather than a price signal.

Ask Calgary in person, or price the move yourself in a minute.

(403) 805-5855 Get my free estimate

Moving to Bowness, or out of it

Departures edge out arrivals on the Bowness record: 44 moves left the community and 39 came into it. With tenure split close to evenly, roughly half of those follow a lease handover and half a possession date. That matters: a lease date is fixed and a possession date can shift by a day, and the two want different contingency plans.

Whichever direction yours runs, the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are identical, and travel time within city limits is not billed. What changes is where the pressure sits: a departure has to be finished by a handover time, while an arrival waits on keys.

Real Customers. Real Movers. Real Reviews.

Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Bowness’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.

730 five-star reviews with a written comment on our Calgary listing since May 2021

5 out of 5
The movers were very professional and personable. They deserve a raise!
shelley McGregor
August 2026
See on Google
5 out of 5
Arrived on time and got right to it. We had a lot of stuff to move and it was a very hot day, but they got it done.
Kim Peterson
moved from Bowness to Beltline, July 2026 · 2 bedroom
See on Google
5 out of 5
Excellent service! Ivan and Maksym were timely, careful and efficient, and they packaged up the furniture that we had to move with great care. Thank you again!
Kateryna S.
March 2026
See on Google
5 out of 5
Exceptional experience with Cactus Moving. The whole move from packing, loading and delivery from Calgary to Vancouver was seamless. Friendly staff. Special shoutouts Ilia and Leo for doing an excellent job!
Haris Bokhari
March 2026
See on Google
5 out of 5
Amazing staff Yohan and Donavin made it such a smooth and easy move. Thank you so much
noorain m
February 2026
See on Google
5 out of 5
Quick, efficient but also took great care not to cause any damage, removing doors if needed etc... highly recommend!
Kent Korol
February 2026 · 3 bedroom
See on Google
Get your move quoted the same way

Reading one that sounds like your move? Our Calgary coordinators will talk the whole day through before you book anything: call the Calgary office

Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The comparison ring is 41 northwest Calgary communities holding 942 completed moves between them: Hillhurst, Varsity, Sage Hill and everything adjoining Bowness. Those jobs sit at 4.25 hours in the middle against the 4 here, and they scatter further at both ends: half of them fell between $454 and $1,336, where the Bowness spread of $508 to $1,216 is tighter at the top. The $806 median here runs a little above the $781 across the ring.

Measure	Bowness	Northwest Calgary
Median local move	$806	$781
Median crew hours on site half of Bowness’s ran 3–6 hours	4 hrs	4.25 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	59%	61%
Graded a large move	7%	9%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	July, August and April	August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 41 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 80	942

In Bowness or any of the neighbours beside it, the crew and the hourly rate are the same. Tell us the address

Figures come from Cactus’s own completed residential moves (business and high-frequency accounts excluded) and from official municipal open data; they are medians and quartiles, never averages, every published figure rests on at least five moves, percentages are rounded, and all-time counts are floors because some older pickup and drop-off addresses were never geocoded.

Ready to move? Start with a free quote.

No deposit for local moves, no fuel surcharge, and no charge for travel time. Tell us about your move and we will send you a personalized estimate.

Get a free quote (403) 805-5855

Keep looking

Other services in Calgary