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Inglewood Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed over 50 residential moves inside Inglewood’s own community boundary, 33 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 Inglewood: what we know about moving here

Inglewood is an inner-city community with a genuinely mixed housing stock: apartments first, detached houses close behind, townhouses after that. It divides almost exactly in half between owning and renting. The households inside it are small, and a large share of them are one person. What follows is compact work on tight bands.

The record inside the boundary is consistent. Sixty-six per cent of moves grade small and 32% medium, the median job runs 4 hours on site across 59 completed moves, and the median priced move came to $715 across 55 jobs. Half of those fell between $549 and $1,003. That is considerably narrower than the $463 to $1,153 across the southeast communities around it, because almost none of the work here is large. Two movers is the dispatched median, and 33 of the moves ran in the last twelve months.

Inglewood neighbourhood guide for moving day

An inner-city community where apartments and houses arrive in near-equal numbers means the first question is which of the two you live in, because the answers diverge completely. For an apartment the constraints are the building's: entrance, lift booking, permitted hours. For a house they are the street and the stairs. If the truck has to hold road space, that is a Street Use Permit: $31.50 per day at the shorter-term rate, the temporary no-parking restriction included, and at least 5 days between the application and the date, with ParkPlus fees added inside a paid parking zone.

Inglewood is an inner-city community

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

People
4,130
One-person households
46%

2021 federal census

Homes
2,387

People per household

1.8

2021 federal census

What people live in
  • 38% apartments
  • 35% single-detached houses
  • 14% townhouses
Owned or rented
  • 48% owned
  • 52% 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 Inglewood 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 Inglewood is something we do every week: talk to our Calgary team

Inglewood moving costs, by the numbers

The count takes in residential jobs where Inglewood was either the address the truck loaded at or the one it unloaded at, going back to 2024: over 50 of them in all, 33 in the last twelve months. Hours and crew size draw on 59 moves, and the price band on the 55 that closed with a complete total. Both are large enough samples that the quartiles are worth planning against: 3.25 to 5.38 hours, and $549 to $1,003.

What a local move cost
$715 median

half fell between $549 and $1,003 · based on 55 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Inglewood
over 50

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2024

In the last 12 months
33

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
4 median

half of these moves ran 3.25–5.38 hours · 59 moves

Crew size
2 movers median

half of these moves used 2–3 · 59 moves

Simplified outline of the official Inglewood community boundary in Calgary, with a dot marking its centre.
Inglewood’s own community boundary about 2.8 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

Call Calgary or get a quote online. Either works.

What a move in Inglewood actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 59 completed residential jobs in Inglewood. Another 19 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 apartment or condo move in Inglewood: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Inglewood

$587
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $544 and $762 · 21 moves

  • 3.75 hours on site half ran 3.5–4.5 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

One-bedroom jobs are 36% of everything we have completed in Inglewood, and 21 of them sit behind this card. That is a big enough sample for the band to mean something, and it is a narrow one: half fell between $544 and $762. Two movers and one truck, 3.75 hours on site at the median. That consistency is what a run of similar homes produces; where a job lands inside it comes down to the lift, the loading spot and the walk out to the truck.

36% of the moves we have completed in Inglewood · 21 moves

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

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Inglewood

$942
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $795 and $1,190 · 18 moves

  • 4.88 hours on site half ran 3.69–6.19 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two-bedroom work is 31% of the Inglewood book across 18 completed jobs, and it adds about an hour to a one-bedroom: 4.88 hours on site at the median, still two movers and one truck, with half of them between $795 and $1,190. A second bedroom of furniture carried by the same crew is most of the difference. Booking the lift and the loading area at both ends is what keeps a day at this size inside its band.

31% of the moves we have completed in Inglewood · 18 moves

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

A three-bedroom house or townhouse move in Southeast Calgary

$1,263
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $813 and $2,016 · 205 moves

  • 6.25 hours on site half ran 4.25–8.25 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A three-bedroom move across southeast Calgary is a 6.25-hour median day with three movers and one truck, and half of the 205 jobs at this size came to between $813 and $2,016. The bedroom count understates it: at three bedrooms a home usually brings storage with it, and a basement or a garage adds a morning that no room tally shows. A walkthrough before the date is what turns that into hours.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southeast Calgary, across 205 moves.

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

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Southeast Calgary

$1,798
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $983 and $2,686 · 63 moves

  • 7.25 hours on site half ran 4.75–9.88 hours
  • 4 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Four bedrooms and up in southeast Calgary is the only size on this page dispatched with 4 movers, and the median day still runs 7.25 hours on site with one truck. Half of the 63 jobs at this size fell between $983 and $2,686. A fourth mover raises the hourly rate and cuts the hours, which is the trade being made at this size. How much of the house was in boxes when the crew arrived decides the rest. Packing services and bin rentals are quoted separately.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southeast Calgary, across 63 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 Inglewood?

The median local move in Inglewood costs $715, total cost with tax, across 55 priced residential jobs, with half of them falling between $549 and $1,003. That band is a good deal tighter than the $463 to $1,153 across the southeast communities around it. Cactus bills a local move by the hour, with the rate set by the crew and the truck and stated in the agreement before anyone starts.

  • What does a one-bedroom move in Inglewood cost?

    $587 is the median for a one-bedroom move in Inglewood, from 21 completed jobs, with half of them between $544 and $762, the narrowest band of the four sizes on this page. That is two movers, one truck and 3.75 hours on site. One-bedroom work is 36% of everything we have done inside the boundary, so it is the size these figures describe best.

  • What does a two-bedroom move in Inglewood cost?

    $942 is the median for a two-bedroom move in Inglewood, across 18 completed jobs, with half of them between $795 and $1,190. The crew stays at two movers and one truck and the day runs 4.88 hours on site, about an hour more than a one-bedroom. The cards above give the crew, the trucks and the band at every size.

  • Is an apartment move in Inglewood different from a house move?

    Yes, and this community has close to equal numbers of both: 38% of homes are apartments and 35% are single-detached. An apartment move is settled at the building, on the lift, the loading area and the hours it permits. A house move is settled at the kerb and on the stairs. The hourly rate and the crew are the same either way; what changes is which of the two has to be booked in advance.

  • Why is the price range in Inglewood narrower than in the communities around it?

    Because almost none of the work here is large: 66% of Inglewood jobs grade small and 32% medium, so half of the 55 priced moves fell inside $549 to $1,003 where the surrounding southeast communities spread from $463 to $1,153. The two sets agree on duration, at 4 median hours on site either way. It is the very large days that Inglewood's own record is missing.

  • Do you charge for travel time to Inglewood?

    No. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so an Inglewood move is billed for the hours the crew is actually working. That is a median of 4 hours across the 59 completed moves here, with half of them running between 3.25 and 5.38.

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

Moving to Inglewood, or out of it

Departures lead the Inglewood moves on our books, though not by much: 28 out, 25 in, and 6 that ran from one Inglewood address to another. With the community split almost evenly between owning and renting, those departures arrive on both kinds of calendar, a tenancy ending and a sale closing. The two ask for very different amounts of notice.

The 6 that stayed inside the boundary are worth naming separately, because a short move is still a whole move: the same rooms are emptied and refilled, and since travel time within city limits is not charged, the bill is the hours at both doors rather than the distance between them.

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 Inglewood’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 cannot possibly recommend them highly enough. Communication was prompt, clear, and honest from the moment I requested a quote, and arranging everything was extraordinarily easy. Day off, Andrii and Stanislav were exactly on time, and proceeded to complete the smoothest move of my entire life.

    Paige Mulder

    moved within Inglewood, March 2026 · 1 bedroom

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  • 5 out of 5

    Calgary Alberta: 2 young Ukranian guys delivered my recliner from Ashley's furniture. They were amazing and delivered my furniture without damage despite the -33 Celsius conditions (-42 with windchill).

    Michael Bainbridge

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    This company is fantastic, they are Accommodating, understanding, helpful, respectful and work at a fast pace. I messed up my move date and the office lady was so kind about it. The 3 men that came to move our household were supper awesome. They were fast, diligent, and had great communication.

    Jo

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Exceptional moving experience! My movers were Max and Alex and both were very pleasant, and exercised caution with all my stuff and were super helpful. James was so helpful on the phone and was very accommodating.

    M Lee

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    I've referred many of my clients to different moving companies as a realtor, but received a glowing review from one of my clients for Cactus Moving. I recently opportunity to give it a try myself. We moved from a 2 bed 2 bath downtown condo to an older inner city bungalow.

    Michelle Nguyen

    January 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    These guys were amazing!! They were on time, polite, and very hard working! I would totally recommend!

    Kat

    January 2024

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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 around Inglewood is 27 southeast Calgary communities and 1,501 residential moves, with Beltline, Seton and Mahogany contributing most of them. The two sets agree on duration at 4 median hours on site either way, and part company on money. Inglewood's $715 median sits under the class figure of $743, and its band is considerably tighter, $549 to $1,003 against $463 to $1,153. Having almost no very large days in the local sample is what tightens it.

Measure Inglewood Southeast Calgary
Median local move $715 $743
Median crew hours on site half of Inglewood’s ran 3.25–5.38 hours 4 hrs 4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 66% 65%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published May, August and July August, July and May
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 27 communities, this one and everything next to it over 50 1,501

In Inglewood 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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