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Hounsfield Heights Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed at least 16 residential moves inside Hounsfield Heights’s own community boundary, 9 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 Hounsfield Heights: what we know about moving here

Three movers is the dispatched median on a Hounsfield Heights job, one more than the northwest communities around it send, and it is not because the loads are bigger. Sixty-nine per cent of the moves inside this boundary grade small. It is what a community of houses asks for on a day billed by the hour: more hands, fewer hours.

The two kinds of housing sit side by side here, a clear majority of detached homes with a substantial minority of apartments behind them, owner-occupied about two to one. The medians on this page therefore cover two quite different days. Eleven priced jobs came to a $1,232 median with half of them between $687 and $1,549, well above the $780 the surrounding communities record. On eleven jobs, that band is the figure to plan against.

Hounsfield Heights neighbourhood guide for moving day

This panel is a community of houses with a real minority of apartments inside it, owned about two to one. That is two kinds of moving day rather than one, and the question worth answering first is which of them yours is. An apartment address makes the building the constraint: the lift, the loading area, the hours it allows. A house address makes the kerb the constraint, and where the truck has to hold road space Calgary's Street Use Permit is stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use, carries the temporary no-parking permit with it, and wants at least 5 days of notice.

Hounsfield Heights is largely built out in the 1950s

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

People
2,470
One-person households
29%

2021 federal census

Homes
1,108

People per household

2.4

2021 federal census

What people live in
  • 61% single-detached houses
  • 33% apartments
Owned or rented
  • 67% owned
  • 33% 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.

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

Hounsfield Heights moving costs, by the numbers

These counts cover residential moves with a pickup or a drop-off inside the Hounsfield Heights boundary since 2024: at least 16 of them, 9 in the last twelve months. All 16 carry the hours and crew medians; the cost line rests on the 11 that were local and priced end to end. Eleven is enough to describe a band and not enough to quote from, which is why $687 to $1,549 is the more useful half of that line.

What a local move cost
$1,232 median

half fell between $687 and $1,549 · based on 11 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Hounsfield Heights
at least 16

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2024

In the last 12 months
9

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
4.63 median

half of these moves ran 3.13–6.25 hours · 16 moves

Crew size
3 movers median

half of these moves used 2–3 · 16 moves

Simplified outline of the official Hounsfield Heights community boundary in Calgary, with a dot marking its centre.
Hounsfield Heights’s own community boundary about 1.6 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move this size costs in Northwest Calgary

Sizes of move cut out of the completed residential jobs in Northwest Calgary, the communities beside this one. Hounsfield Heights has fewer than five of its own at each size, and a band resting on fewer than five moves is not published here at any scope.

Clay-style illustration of a one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northwest Calgary: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northwest Calgary

$623
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $438 and $865 · 180 moves

  • 3.5 hours on site half ran 2.5–5.25 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A one-bedroom move in northwest Calgary is two movers, one truck and a 3.5-hour median on site, with half of the 180 jobs at this size falling between $438 and $865. The load is one bedroom, a living room and a kitchen of boxes, and the wardrobe and the mattress are usually the only pieces that occupy both movers at once. Because the rate is hourly, the distance from the door to wherever the truck can legally stand is what moves a job inside that band.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northwest Calgary, across 180 moves.

Clay-style illustration of a two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northwest Calgary: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northwest Calgary

$904
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $619 and $1,358 · 218 moves

  • 5 hours on site half ran 3.5–7 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two bedrooms is still a two-mover, one-truck job across northwest Calgary, at a 5-hour median on site, with half of the 218 jobs at this size between $619 and $1,358. The extra hour and a half over a one-bedroom buys a second bedroom of furniture and the boxes that follow it. The width of that band is access rather than contents: the same load through a lobby and a lift is a different day from the same load through a front door.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northwest Calgary, across 218 moves.

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

A three-bedroom house or townhouse move in Northwest Calgary

$1,420
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $995 and $2,065 · 162 moves

  • 6.75 hours on site half ran 4.75–8.5 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Three bedrooms in northwest Calgary is a 6.75-hour median day with three movers and one truck, and half of the 162 jobs at this size came to between $995 and $2,065. What separates one from another is the storage a house carries rather than the bedroom count. A basement and a garage add a morning that no room tally predicts. This is the size at which a walkthrough before the date is worth the half hour it takes.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northwest Calgary, across 162 moves.

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

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Northwest Calgary

$1,700
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,036 and $2,485 · 60 moves

  • 7 hours on site half ran 5.13–9.81 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

At four bedrooms and up, northwest Calgary runs a 7-hour median on site with three movers and one truck, and half of the 60 jobs at this size fell between $1,036 and $2,485. The crew matches a three-bedroom; the spread does not, because the deciding variable at this size is how much of the house was boxed before the crew arrived. Packing services and bin rentals are quoted separately and are the usual answer to that.

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 Hounsfield Heights?

The median local move in Hounsfield Heights costs $1,232, total cost with tax, from the 11 residential jobs priced end to end here, with half of them falling between $687 and $1,549. On 11 jobs, read the band rather than the midpoint.

  • How many movers come on a Hounsfield Heights move?

    Three is the dispatched median here, one more than the northwest communities around it send, with half of the 16 moves using between two and three. That is not a bigger-loads story: 69% of the work inside this boundary grades small. A third mover raises the hourly rate and usually lowers the hours, which on a 4.63-hour median day is the trade being made.

  • Is an apartment move in Hounsfield Heights different from a house move?

    Yes, and this community has both: 61% of homes are single-detached and 33% are apartments, so it is worth saying which one you are booking, because the medians on this page cover the two together. An apartment move is decided at the building, by the lift and the loading area; a house move is decided at the kerb and on the stairs. The crew and the hourly rate are identical either way.

  • Why does a move here cost more than elsewhere in northwest Calgary?

    The gap is real at the middle, $1,232 in Hounsfield Heights against $780 across the 36 northwest communities in the set below, though it rests on 11 priced jobs against 955. The rate is the same hourly rate everywhere Cactus works in Calgary. What differs is the mix of homes behind those 11 jobs and the three-mover crews they took.

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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 Hounsfield Heights’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

    I’ve always opted to move myself (hiring a UHaul, getting friends) and after my experience with Cactus Moving, I wish I had used them for all my moves! The whole process was so smooth and stress free and their pricing was very competitive. I highly recommend Stan and Dima!

    Melanie Ang

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Max and Alladin's service was excellent; they were really helpful and friendly. We moved on Jan 26th. They were very punctual and careful with our furniture. They also helped us get our things where they were supposed to go in the new house.

    Juan Hernandez-Medrano (Jh)

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Amazing work without any damages and full of enthusiasm from Mitchell and Max. We really enjoyed the moving and they relived our burden. Definitely recommend!!

    Azamkhan Pathan

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Highly recommended, we used Cactus Moving company to move very heavy appliances and guys did awesome job. Thank you!

    Karolina Man

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    First off I want to say, Alex and Elgiz deserve a huge raise. These boys were exactly on time, moved everything with precision and speed, but taking their time with my belongings.

    Dyllan Goodman

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Excellent experience with Cactus Moving! Dima and Niko were our movers, and they were very careful and efficient. We did not need to worry about our belongings and they helped make our move stress free. Without a doubt we will be hiring Cactus Moving for any of our moves in the future.

    Aaron Lam

    January 2024

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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

Below, Hounsfield Heights is pooled with 36 northwest Calgary communities that carry 955 moves between them. Bowness, Hillhurst, Varsity and the rest of the ring next to it make up that set. Two differences stand out against that set: jobs here run longer than its 4-hour median, and they cost more than its $780. With 955 moves behind the class figures and 11 behind the price on this page, the class band is the better guide to a range and this page the better guide to Hounsfield Heights itself.

Measure Hounsfield Heights Northwest Calgary
Median local move $1,232 $780
Median crew hours on site half of Hounsfield Heights’s ran 3.13–6.25 hours 4.63 hrs 4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 69% 61%
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 36 communities, this one and everything next to it at least 16 955

In Hounsfield Heights 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.

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