Why does a move in Copperfield cost more than one in the communities around it?

The gap is at the bottom of the band rather than the top: half the moves here fell between $629 and $1,297 where the 1,023 southeast Calgary moves around it span $488 to $1,259. There is very little short, inexpensive work in Copperfield's record: 54% graded small against 61% across that ring, and 10% large against 8%. The hourly rate is identical in both.

What does a two-bedroom move in Copperfield cost?

$1,291 is the median for a two-bedroom move in Copperfield, and half of the sixteen we have completed fell between $894 and $1,546. That is two movers, one truck and 6.25 hours on site. It carries the highest median of the four cards on this page, because a two-bedroom home here is more often a house than a suite.

Why is the four-bedroom figure in Copperfield lower than the three-bedroom one?

Because it rests on six moves. The four-bedroom-plus median is $820 across six jobs, with half of them between $476 and $1,210 and a median of 3.88 hours on site. That band says more about what those six days involved than about what a four-bedroom home takes. The three-bedroom card beside it carries fourteen jobs and a $1,119 median.

Does the time of year change what a move in Copperfield costs?

No. What a Copperfield move costs follows the hours and the crew it takes, and the hourly rate behind them is the same on every date of the year. What moves with the season is how much work we are doing: March, June and September are the months we have completed the most moves in Copperfield, where the wider southeast Calgary ring runs to August, with May and July behind it.

Do you charge for travel time to Copperfield?

No. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so a Copperfield move is billed for the hours the crew is actually working. That is a median of 4.75 hours across the 78 moves we have completed here, with half of them running between 3.5 and 6.5 hours.

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Movers in Copperfield: what we know about moving here

Two figures separate Copperfield from the communities around it, and neither is the rate. The first is the floor under the price: half of the local moves here cost between $629 and $1,297, and that lower quartile sits well above the $488 across the southeast Calgary communities pooled below. Small, inexpensive work barely appears in this community's record. The second is the length of the day, 4.75 hours at the median against 4.25 for that wider set.

The housing behind it is a mix rather than a monoculture: mostly detached houses, still building out, but with a real minority of apartments and townhouses. So the crew arrives at a driveway on most jobs and at a lobby on a meaningful share of them, and it is worth saying which one yours is when you book. The elevator and the loading zone are the parts somebody else controls.

The four cards below split those jobs by the size of the home, and all four are drawn from Copperfield's own record.

Copperfield neighbourhood guide for moving day

Townhouses and apartments together are a real minority of Copperfield's homes, and those are where stairs and shared entrances enter a day that would otherwise run driveway to driveway. Booking the elevator or the loading area with the building removes most of that friction, and it is the one arrangement somebody else has to make for you. As for the truck itself, occupying the road in Calgary needs a Street Use Permit, stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use with the temporary no-parking permit folded into the cost, and the City asks for at least 5 days' notice. A revision after you submit restarts that clock.

Copperfield is still building out

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

People: 14,095
One-person households: 21%

2021 federal census

Homes: 5,012
What people live in: 61% single-detached houses
19% apartments
18% townhouses
Owned or rented: 79% owned
21% 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 Copperfield is. A locator map from Google, not a coverage map.

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Copperfield moving costs, by the numbers

This band covers work where Copperfield was the origin, the destination, or both: over 70 jobs since 2024, 36 of them in the last 12 months. More of them leave than arrive: 51% were moves out against 39% in, with 10% running from one Copperfield address to another. Hours and crew size come from all 78 of the jobs on file, while the 63 that closed with a settled invoice are what the price figures rest on, and those are totals with tax rather than hourly rates.

What a local move cost: $939 median
Residential moves in Copperfield: over 70
In the last 12 months: 36
Crew hours on site: 4.75 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Copperfield’s own community boundary about 3.1 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Copperfield actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 78 completed residential jobs in Copperfield. 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 move in Copperfield

$932
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $643 and $1,109 · 9 moves

4.75 hours on site half ran 4–6.25 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two movers and one truck, and the median one-bedroom move in Copperfield takes 4.75 hours on site, the same as the community's median job of any size. That is the clearest sign of how little short work there is here. Nine are on file; half of them fell between $643 and $1,109 and ran between 4 and 6.25 hours. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, with the bed frame and a wardrobe the pieces that need both movers.

12% of the moves we have completed in Copperfield · 9 moves

A two-bedroom house move in Copperfield

$1,291
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $894 and $1,546 · 16 moves

6.25 hours on site half ran 5.19–7.06 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

The card's own heading says house move, and the figures show it: still two movers and one truck, but a median of 6.25 hours on site and half of the sixteen on file between $894 and $1,546. The hours band is narrow for the size, 5.19 to 7.06, which is what a consistent housing stock does to an hourly job. This card carries the highest median of the four on this page, at a size that usually carries one of the lowest.

21% of the moves we have completed in Copperfield · 16 moves

A three-bedroom house move in Copperfield

$1,119
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $793 and $1,971 · 14 moves

5.13 hours on site half ran 4.06–7.13 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Three movers and one truck at this size, and the median day is 5.13 hours. That is shorter than the two-bedroom card above it, on fourteen jobs against sixteen. Three movers rather than two is most of why, even though there is more to carry. The price band is the widest on this page, $793 to $1,971 for the middle half, because at three bedrooms the garage and the basement start deciding the length of the day as much as the bedrooms do.

18% of the moves we have completed in Copperfield · 14 moves

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Copperfield

$820
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $476 and $1,210 · 6 moves

3.88 hours on site half ran 2.73–5.19 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Read this card as the middle of a small sample: six four-bedroom-plus moves in Copperfield, a median of $820 and 3.88 hours on site, with half of them between $476 and $1,210 and between 2.73 and 5.19 hours. Those figures sit below the two-bedroom and three-bedroom cards above, which on six jobs says more about what those six days involved than about what a four-bedroom home takes. The crew is three movers and one truck.

8% of the moves we have completed in Copperfield · 6 moves

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How much does it cost to move in Copperfield?

The median local move in Copperfield costs $939, total cost with tax, and half of the 63 jobs we have priced here fell between $629 and $1,297. The median day here is 4.75 hours on site.

Why does a move in Copperfield cost more than one in the communities around it?

The gap is at the bottom of the band rather than the top: half the moves here fell between $629 and $1,297 where the 1,023 southeast Calgary moves around it span $488 to $1,259. There is very little short, inexpensive work in Copperfield's record: 54% graded small against 61% across that ring, and 10% large against 8%. The hourly rate is identical in both.
What does a two-bedroom move in Copperfield cost?

$1,291 is the median for a two-bedroom move in Copperfield, and half of the sixteen we have completed fell between $894 and $1,546. That is two movers, one truck and 6.25 hours on site. It carries the highest median of the four cards on this page, because a two-bedroom home here is more often a house than a suite.
Why is the four-bedroom figure in Copperfield lower than the three-bedroom one?

Because it rests on six moves. The four-bedroom-plus median is $820 across six jobs, with half of them between $476 and $1,210 and a median of 3.88 hours on site. That band says more about what those six days involved than about what a four-bedroom home takes. The three-bedroom card beside it carries fourteen jobs and a $1,119 median.
Does the time of year change what a move in Copperfield costs?

No. What a Copperfield move costs follows the hours and the crew it takes, and the hourly rate behind them is the same on every date of the year. What moves with the season is how much work we are doing: March, June and September are the months we have completed the most moves in Copperfield, where the wider southeast Calgary ring runs to August, with May and July behind it.
Do you charge for travel time to Copperfield?

No. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so a Copperfield move is billed for the hours the crew is actually working. That is a median of 4.75 hours across the 78 moves we have completed here, with half of them running between 3.5 and 6.5 hours.

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Moving to Copperfield, or out of it

More of the Copperfield moves on our books are departures than arrivals: 40 left the community against 30 that came into it. In a community this heavily owner-occupied, a departure is usually a possession date rather than a lease ending. The date is fixed months ahead by a closing, with the house to be completely empty by a set hour.

Another 8 ran from one Copperfield address to another, which is the shortest kind of day we run: one crew, one truck and a single neighbourhood to work in. Whichever direction yours goes, the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are the same; what changes is which end of the day carries the deadline.

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 Copperfield’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
Two real big fellas showed up on time. Very minimal damage done to my property at either location. Friendly, hard working and incredibly respectful. Office workers were kind, diligent, responsive and helpful. All around great service. Highly recommended.
Trevor Kryski
moved from Douglasdale to Copperfield, August 2026 · 4 bedroom
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5 out of 5
Dmytro was a class act. He communicated when he and his crew would be arriving and actually seems to enjoy his job. Nothing was too big or too small of an ask for him. Would recommend and use cactus again.
stephan hlynialuk
July 2026 · 2 bedroom
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5 out of 5
On time, quick, courteous and no damage incurred. If I was ever going to move again, I'd call these guys.
All Sekels
moved from Hidden Valley to Copperfield, June 2026 · 3 bedroom
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5 out of 5
We have used Cactus a few times now and have never had any issues with them, they are fast and sufficient. Will use them again and have referred them to others .
Dan Westgard
moved within Copperfield, February 2026
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5 out of 5
Moved Jan 25 and absolutely was happy with the two men who handled my move. They were on time, got to work right away and didn’t stop! While being careful with my belongings…WOW. Impressive for sure.
Alanna Butchart
moved from Sundance to Copperfield, January 2026
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5 out of 5
We had a team of 4 movers work all day between a few locations to move us into our home. Ivan, Stan, Jason, and Johan were beyond incredible. We are blown away by how efficient, quick, professional and friendly they were. They were like a well oiled machine.
Kim Redmond
August 2025
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The ring around Copperfield is 26 southeast Calgary communities holding 1,023 moves. Seton, Mahogany and Cranston are the busiest of them. Copperfield's own jobs run half an hour longer at the middle, 4.75 hours against 4.25, and cost noticeably more: a $939 median against $775. The gap is not at the top, where Copperfield reaches $1,297 and the ring $1,259, but at the bottom, where the two quartiles are $629 and $488.

Measure	Copperfield	Southeast Calgary
Median local move	$939	$775
Median crew hours on site half of Copperfield’s ran 3.5–6.5 hours	4.75 hrs	4.25 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	54%	61%
Graded a large move	10%	8%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	March, June and September	August, May and July
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 26 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 70	1,023

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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.

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