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Mount Pleasant Movers, Calgary

Cactus has completed over 35 residential moves inside Mount Pleasant’s own community boundary, 22 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 Mount Pleasant: what we know about moving here

Mount Pleasant is an inner-city community with a suburban housing mix: half the homes are single-detached, a quarter are duplexes, and apartments are a small minority. Close to a third of the households are a single person, which sets up a kind of job worth flagging at the quote stage, one person emptying more space than one person fills.

The record here is wide rather than tight. Thirty-six timed jobs put the middle move at 4.13 hours on site, but the middle half stretches from 2 to 6.5 hours, and 33 priced jobs give a $769 median with the middle half running from $441 to $1,142. That is close to a full working day of spread inside one community, and it is what a mix of detached houses and duplexes produces. The wider northwest ring sits almost exactly on top of it at $776 and 4 hours, which makes either figure a reasonable one to plan against.

Mount Pleasant neighbourhood guide for moving day

Two things here decide the day. The first is that this is mostly detached houses and duplexes, with apartments a small minority, so a move in Mount Pleasant is usually a front door and a staircase rather than an entrance and a lift. The second is household size: close to a third of homes hold one person, and a single occupant in a whole house is the case where an honest inventory at the quote stage is worth more than an extra mover. The other thing to arrange early is the kerb. Calgary's Street Use Permit, $31.50 a day with the temporary no-parking permit folded in, needs 5 days' notice, and an inner-city street is where a truck is most likely to want one.

Mount Pleasant is an inner-city community

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

People
6,325
One-person households
30%

2021 federal census

Homes
2,831

People per household

2.3

2021 federal census

What people live in
  • 50% single-detached houses
  • 26% duplexes
  • 8% apartments
Owned or rented
  • 55% owned
  • 45% 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 Mount Pleasant is something we do every week: talk to our Calgary team

Mount Pleasant moving costs, by the numbers

Over 35 residential moves have a pickup or a drop-off inside the Mount Pleasant boundary since 2024, and every figure in this band comes from them. Hours, crew size and job grading are drawn from 36 moves; the $769 median and its band come from the 33 that were local, residential and invoiced with tax.

What a local move cost
$769 median

half fell between $441 and $1,142 · based on 33 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Mount Pleasant
over 35

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2024

In the last 12 months
22

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
4.13 median

half of these moves ran 2–6.5 hours · 36 moves

Crew size
2 movers median

half of these moves used 2–3 · 36 moves

Simplified outline of the official Mount Pleasant community boundary in Calgary, with a dot marking its centre.
Mount Pleasant’s own community boundary about 1.3 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Mount Pleasant actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 36 completed residential jobs in Mount Pleasant. Another 14 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 Mount Pleasant: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant

$793
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $600 and $852 · 5 moves

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

Five one-bedroom moves in Mount Pleasant carry a settled price, and their median is $793 with half of them between $600 and $852. That is a narrow band, though five jobs is a narrow base to draw one from. Two movers and one truck, and the middle day is 4.5 hours on site with half running 4 to 4.75 hours. At 14% of the work here it is a morning and a bit: one room's furniture, a kitchen, and the stairs between them and the truck.

14% of the moves we have completed in Mount Pleasant · 5 moves

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

A two-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant

$824
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $587 and $1,502 · 9 moves

  • 4.75 hours on site half ran 3.75–5 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

$824 is the median two-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant, from 9 priced jobs, and the price band around it is loose: half of them fell between $587 and $1,502. The hours are far tighter: 4.75 on site in the middle, with half between 3.75 and 5. On a nine-job base that price spread reads as the range of a handful rather than as the shape of the size. Two movers and one truck, and 25% of the work here.

25% of the moves we have completed in Mount Pleasant · 9 moves

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

A three-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant

$1,470
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,156 and $2,127 · 6 moves

  • 8.13 hours on site half ran 6.56–10.06 hours
  • 4 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This is the long card on the page: 6 three-bedroom moves, a $1,470 median, 8.13 hours on site, and 4 movers with one truck, the only size here dispatched with four. Half of the six fell between $1,156 and $2,127, and half of the days ran 6.56 to 10.06 hours. At 17% of the work here it is a full day rather than a long morning, and how much is boxed before the crew arrives is what decides where inside that band it lands.

17% of the moves we have completed in Mount Pleasant · 6 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

$1,635
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $984 and $2,447 · 58 moves

  • 6.88 hours on site half ran 4.88–9.69 hours
  • 3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Mount Pleasant has fewer than five four-bedroom-plus moves of its own, so this card describes that size across the northwest Calgary communities around it: 58 of them, a $1,635 median, 6.88 hours on site, and three movers with one truck. Half of those days ran between 4.88 and 9.69 hours, and half of the prices between $984 and $2,447. Read it beside the three-bedroom card with care. That one is Mount Pleasant's own and rests on six jobs, while this one is the wider set's.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northwest Calgary, across 58 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 Mount Pleasant?

The median local move in Mount Pleasant costs $769, total with tax, and half of the 33 priced jobs closed here fell between $441 and $1,142. That is almost exactly the $776 median across the 39 northwest Calgary communities around it.

  • Why is the range of prices in Mount Pleasant so wide?

    Because the days are: the middle half of the moves here ran anywhere from 2 to 6.5 hours on site, and on an hourly rate that spread in time is the spread in price. The housing is why: half the homes are detached and a quarter are duplexes, and a one-bedroom job and a three-bedroom job are different days at $793 and $1,470. The cards above are where the single $769 median turns into a number you can plan against.

  • What does a three-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant cost?

    $1,470 is the median three-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant, from 6 priced jobs, with half of them between $1,156 and $2,127. That is 4 movers, one truck and 8.13 hours on site. It is the longest day of the four sizes on this page. Six jobs is a thin base, so read the median rather than the edges.

  • Is it more expensive to move in an inner-city community like Mount Pleasant?

    Not on these numbers: $769 here against $776 across the 39 northwest Calgary communities around it, and 4.13 hours on site against 4. There is no inner-city premium anywhere in this record. What moves a job up the band is how much there is to carry and how many stairs it has to come down, not the address it comes from.

  • Why does a three-bedroom move in Mount Pleasant use four movers?

    Because that is what has actually been dispatched at that size here: a median crew of 4 with one truck, on a middle day of 8.13 hours. The extra pair of hands is what keeps a day that long from running longer still. The rate follows the crew and the truck, so more movers is not automatically a bigger bill. It is the hours they save that decide.

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

Moving to Mount Pleasant, or out of it

More of the moves attributed to Mount Pleasant are people arriving than leaving: 19 in against 16 out, 53% against 44%. Tenure here is close to evenly split, so those arrivals divide between possession dates and lease ends, and the two want different things from you. A sale fixes an hour; a tenancy fixes a day, and often a building's rules along with it.

A move out of Mount Pleasant usually ends somewhere in the ring of northwest communities around it, Bowness, Hillhurst and Varsity among the busiest of them. Either direction, the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are the same, and travel time within city limits is not charged, so the invoice measures the hours worked rather than the distance between the two addresses.

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 Mount Pleasant’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 move itself went really well and our two movers were competent and efficient but I also appreciated that I got a confirmation call a few days ahead confirming time and address!

    Nalanda Thompson

    September 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    The movers showed up on time and were very careful moving my items.

    Flipper-do

    September 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    No hesitation in recommending this company. Mitchell and Dima moved our 2 bedroom condo from the third floor and did the most wonderful job. These two guys were friendly, helpful, respectful, careful and very nice. I will definitely go with Cactus Moving again for any future moves.

    Houri Shojaei

    September 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    We hired cactus movers Yarik and Oleg to help us move out of our three story walk up apartment. This was our first time hiring movers and it’s a game changer. They were both amazing, on time, professional and super friendly.

    Kali Fernie

    September 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    These guys deserve 10 stars!!!!. They are amazing Organized, very professional, friendly, and polite. They treated everything carefully. We are so happy with their service. They worked hard. I would like to thank our crew, Mitchell,Yarik,Stan, and Elgiz. I recommend them 100%. Thank you, guys.

    Katherine Mera

    September 2023

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  • 5 out of 5

    Thank you to Mitch and Oleg for everything they did. Moved to Calgary to parkland county, and they made things easy, and stress free. I would recommend cactus moving to anyone but having them was amazing. So thank you.

    Tasha Brister

    September 2023

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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

Mount Pleasant tracks its neighbours closely. Pooled below are 954 moves across the 39 northwest Calgary communities next to it, Bowness, Hillhurst, Varsity and Crescent Heights included. Their median local move is $776 against $769 here, their median day 4 hours against 4.13. When two sets agree that closely, either one is a reasonable planning figure, and the difference between them is smaller than the difference between two houses on the same block.

Measure Mount Pleasant Northwest Calgary
Median local move $769 $776
Median crew hours on site half of Mount Pleasant’s ran 2–6.5 hours 4.13 hrs 4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 64% 61%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published August and July August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 39 communities, this one and everything next to it over 35 954

In Mount Pleasant 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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