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Edgemont Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed over 40 residential moves inside Edgemont’s own community boundary, 23 of them in the last twelve months. Here is what they cost, how long they ran and what the City wants at the curb.

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Movers in Edgemont: what we know about moving here

Edgemont is a settled, owner-occupied community of detached houses, and in our book that shows up as size. 17% of the moves completed inside this boundary graded large, against 9% across the northwest Calgary communities around it, and the median crew dispatched here is three movers rather than two. The middle job holds them on site 5 hours where the wider ring reads 4.

Cost follows, because a local move is billed by the hour: a $1,122 median across 35 priced jobs, against $775 for the ring. The band underneath that median is the part worth reading: half of the moves fell between $479 and $1,669, which is the distance between a one-bedroom load and a full house, and this community produces both. The four cards below split the same jobs by the size of the home, which is a better guide to your own day than one figure covering all of them.

Edgemont neighbourhood guide for moving day

This is a community of owned, detached family houses, and the practical consequence is that almost every job starts at a driveway rather than a building door. Stairs, a garage and a basement are the parts that lengthen the day, and they are worth walking us through before the date so the crew is sized for the house rather than for the median. Households here run to nearly three people, which usually means a full load rather than a partial one. The permit that matters is the curbside one: a Street Use Permit at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use with the temporary no-parking permit included, applied for at least 5 days ahead, with ParkPlus fees on top inside a paid parking zone.

Edgemont is largely built out in the 1980s/1990s

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

People
15,255
One-person households
14%

2021 federal census

Homes
5,437

People per household

2.9

2021 federal census

What people live in
  • 81% single-detached houses
  • 8% townhouses
  • 5% apartments
Owned or rented
  • 83% owned
  • 17% 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 Edgemont is. A locator map from Google, not a coverage map.

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Edgemont moving costs, by the numbers

Over 40 residential moves have been attributed to Edgemont since 2024, 23 of them in the last twelve months. The twelve-month count is exact; the all-time figure is a floor. 41 of those jobs carry the crew and timing detail and 35 carry a price, so the money rests on a slightly smaller sample than the clock does. Half of the timed jobs ran between 3 and 6.75 hours, which at an hourly rate is the difference between a morning and a long day.

What a local move cost
$1,122 median

half fell between $479 and $1,669 · based on 35 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Edgemont
over 40

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2024

In the last 12 months
23

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
5 median

half of these moves ran 3–6.75 hours · 41 moves

Crew size
3 movers median

half of these moves used 2–3 · 41 moves

Simplified outline of the official Edgemont community boundary in Calgary, with a dot marking its centre.
Edgemont’s own community boundary about 3.2 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Edgemont actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 41 completed residential jobs in Edgemont. Another 12 were storage runs, container loads and part-home jobs whose paperwork records no bedroom count; they belong to none of the four.

Clay-style illustration of a one-bedroom move in Edgemont: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom move in Edgemont

$375
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $281 and $438 · 6 moves

  • 2.38 hours on site half ran 2.06–2.88 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

The shortest day on this page: 2.38 hours on site at the median, two movers and one truck, and a $375 median across the 6 one-bedroom jobs completed in Edgemont. Half of them ran 2.06 to 2.88 hours and cost between $281 and $438. At this size the whole job is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, and two movers can carry it in a morning. It is 15% of the work we have done inside the boundary.

15% of the moves we have completed in Edgemont · 6 moves

Clay-style illustration of a two-bedroom move in Edgemont: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A two-bedroom move in Edgemont

$710
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $461 and $804 · 5 moves

  • 4.25 hours on site half ran 3.25–4.5 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Still two movers and one truck, and the median two-bedroom in Edgemont runs 4.25 hours on site, close to double the one-bedroom day for one more room of furniture and the boxes that come with it. Half of the 5 jobs at this size ran 3.25 to 4.5 hours and landed between $461 and $804 around a $710 median. It is 12% of the work here, and the tightest band of the four: at this size the contents are fairly predictable and the hours follow.

12% of the moves we have completed in Edgemont · 5 moves

Clay-style illustration of a three-bedroom house move in Edgemont: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A three-bedroom house move in Edgemont

$1,565
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,187 and $2,091 · 14 moves

  • 6.75 hours on site half ran 5.69–8.38 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This is the Edgemont move: 34% of everything completed inside the boundary, and the size the community is built around. Three movers and one truck, a median of 6.75 hours on site, a full working day rather than a morning, with half of the 14 jobs running 5.69 to 8.38 hours. The median came to $1,565 and the middle half to $1,187 and $2,091. At this size the garage and the basement decide the length of the day as much as the bedrooms do.

34% of the moves we have completed in Edgemont · 14 moves

Clay-style illustration of a four-bedroom-plus house or townhouse move in Northwest Calgary: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A four-bedroom-plus house or townhouse move in Northwest Calgary

$1,700
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,036 and $2,425 · 60 moves

  • 7 hours on site half ran 5.13–9.56 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

At four bedrooms and up the figures come from northwest Calgary as a whole rather than from Edgemont alone, because a band resting on fewer than five local jobs is not published here. Three movers and one truck is the median dispatch and 7 hours the median time on site, with half of the 60 moves running 5.13 to 9.56 hours and landing between $1,036 and $2,425 around a $1,700 median. What stretches a day at this size is how much of the house is boxed before the crew arrives.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northwest Calgary, across 60 moves.

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How much does it cost to move in Edgemont?

The median local move in Edgemont costs $1,122 with tax in, across 35 priced jobs, and half of them fell between $479 and $1,669. That is above the $775 median for the northwest Calgary communities around it, because more of the work here is a whole detached house.

  • What does a three-bedroom house move cost in Edgemont?

    $1,565 is the median for a three-bedroom move in Edgemont, across 14 completed jobs, with the middle half between $1,187 and $2,091. That is three movers, one truck and 6.75 hours on site: a full working day. It is also the commonest size here, at 34% of everything completed inside the boundary.

  • Why is the price range in Edgemont so wide?

    Because one median covers every size of home, and this community has a real spread of them: the one-bedroom card above sits at a $375 median over 2.38 hours, the three-bedroom at $1,565 over 6.75. Both are billed at the same hourly rate and are completely different days. Splitting the jobs by size, as the cards do, answers the question better than the $479 to $1,669 band can.

  • How long does a move in Edgemont take?

    The middle move in Edgemont takes 5 hours on site, across 41 completed jobs, with half of them running between 3 and 6.75 hours. That is an hour longer than the 4-hour middle for the wider northwest Calgary set, and the reason is size rather than pace: 17% of the moves here graded large against 9% across that set.

  • How many movers will a job in Edgemont need?

    Three is the median crew dispatched here, and half of the 41 recorded jobs used two or three movers. Crew size and truck size are what set the hourly rate, so it is the number worth getting right at booking rather than on the morning. A three-bedroom here runs 6.75 hours at the median, and an under-staffed crew only makes that longer.

  • Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Edgemont?

    Only if the truck has to occupy road space rather than a driveway. Calgary issues a Street Use Permit with the temporary no-parking permit it requires, stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use, and asks for the application at least 5 days ahead; ParkPlus fees apply on top inside a paid parking zone.

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Moving to Edgemont, or out of it

The moves attributed to Edgemont split close to evenly, with a slight lean toward leaving: 22 went out of the community against 18 that came in. This is an owner-occupied community, so both halves tend to run on possession dates rather than lease ends, which means the day is usually known months ahead and rarely moves.

That is a count of work already completed, not a forecast of what is coming. Either direction is the same job for a crew, and at this size of home the thing that decides the length of the day is the same either way: how much of the house is packed, and whether the truck can get near the door at both ends.

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 Edgemont’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

    Cactus moving helped us with our move yesterday. They were prompt to respond to a quote inquiry and were very reasonable! The day started off early and was so slick. Donavan and Stan were amazing, so kind and accommodating. They took such good care of our items.

    Ainsleigh Toth

    moved from Edgemont to Bridgeland, May 2025 · 2 bedroom

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  • 5 out of 5

    Oleg and Dima helped us with our move yesterday and they were so pleasant to work with. Thank you Cactus Moving for providing good service at very reasonable cost.

    Anita Lee

    moved from Edgemont to Spruce Cliff, September 2024 · 2 bedroom

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  • 5 out of 5

    Ivan L is the mover you would recommend to everyone! Our move was full of unexpected complications: narrow stairs, large furniture and a lot of boxes. But Ivan immediately took control of the situation. He demonstrated excellent coordination and foresight.

    Yevhen Ivanov

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Owen was very helpful in our booking and accommodated the moving date on only a few days notice. He also assisted us with booking cleaners from the cleaning side of their business. Both coordinated with each other very well.

    gracerose

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Stan Suliko Vadym, once again, 1000 times thank you for your help for our move! The team was courteous, polite, friendly and very effective with the move ! We were so happy with their work ! NOTHING was damaged ! Everything was secured and taken care of throughout the day!

    Valery McLaren

    September 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Niko & Bohdan were very professional and courteous. They wasted no time and the move was completed at a reasonable price. Far less than other quotes I received. I would recommend Cactus Moving to anyone.

    Roger

    September 2024

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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The band below pools 944 completed moves from 37 northwest Calgary communities: Bowness, Hillhurst, Varsity and the rest of what borders Edgemont. Edgemont's own work runs longer and dearer than that pool, 5 hours against 4 and $1,122 against $775, and the size mix is why: 17% of the moves here graded large where the wider set records 9%. A large move is where crew size, truck size and hours all rise together.

Measure Edgemont Northwest Calgary
Median local move $1,122 $775
Median crew hours on site half of Edgemont’s ran 3–6.75 hours 5 hrs 4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 56% 62%
Graded a large move 17% 9%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published July, May and August August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 37 communities, this one and everything next to it over 40 944

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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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