What does a three-bedroom move in Oakridge cost?

$1,538 is the median for a three-bedroom move in Oakridge, and half of the 11 we have completed here fell between $1,197 and $2,412. That is typically three movers, one truck and 6.75 hours on site. A four-bedroom-plus move runs $2,452 across 8 completed jobs. Each card above gives the band, the crew and the trucks for that size.

Why does a move in Oakridge cost more than in the Calgary neighbourhoods around it?

Because the homes are bigger, not because the rate is different: the median Oakridge job runs 6 hours on site against 4 across the 36 southwest Calgary communities it is compared with, and that is what carries a $1,128 median against $736. Most homes here are single-detached houses, so a typical job is a whole house with a basement and a garage rather than an apartment's worth of boxes. The hourly rate itself is the same one every Calgary move is billed at.

How long does a move in Oakridge take?

The median move in Oakridge runs 6 hours on site, and half of the 33 jobs behind that figure ran between 3 and 8 hours. The size of the home is what moves a job inside the band: a one-bedroom is a 3.75-hour day at the southwest Calgary median, a four-bedroom-plus in Oakridge is 10.63. Because the rate is hourly the hours are the price, and there is no charge for travel time within city limits.

Is it cheaper to move at certain times of year in Oakridge?

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Oakridge is priced differently from another. What shifts with the calendar is how much work there is: Oakridge's own busiest months have been November and January, where the wider southwest Calgary set peaks in August, July and June.

Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Oakridge?

Only where the truck has to sit in the street rather than the driveway: Calgary issues a Street Use Permit together with the temporary no-parking permit it requires, stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use, and asks for at least 5 days' notice for work as low-impact as a residential move. ParkPlus fees apply on top inside a paid parking zone. With most Oakridge homes single-detached and set back from the street, plenty of jobs here never need one.

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Movers in Oakridge: what we know about moving here

A move in Oakridge takes longer than a move in most of the southwest. The median job here runs 6 hours on site where the surrounding communities run 4, the median crew is three movers rather than two, and the median local move comes to $1,128 with tax against $736 across the ring around it. None of that is a different rate. The hourly rate is the one every Calgary job is billed at; it is a different kind of house.

Because that is mostly what Oakridge is: houses, owned rather than rented, in a community that was finished decades ago rather than one still filling in. A job here starts at a driveway instead of a building door, which usually takes the elevator and the loading bay out of the planning and puts stairs, a basement and a garage back into it. 64% of the moves we have completed inside the boundary are still graded small and 24% medium, but a third of them are three-bedroom houses and a quarter are bigger again, and those are the days that set the pace of the book.

Oakridge neighbourhood guide for moving day

Two things on this list change a moving day in Oakridge. The first is that this is a neighbourhood of houses, owned rather than rented and largely finished decades ago, so most jobs work from a driveway rather than a building door. That usually takes the elevator booking out of the planning and puts stairs at both ends back into it, along with everything a family has put in a basement and a garage over the years. The second is the kerb. Where the truck has to sit in the street, Calgary's Street Use Permit covers it, arrives with the temporary no-parking permit, is stated at $31.50 a day, and wants at least 5 days' notice. It is a call to make the week before rather than the morning of.

Oakridge is largely built out in the 1960s/1970s

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

People: 5,620
One-person households: 21%

2021 federal census

Homes: 2,298
What people live in: 74% single-detached houses
18% townhouses
6% duplexes
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.

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Oakridge moving costs, by the numbers

Thirty-three completed moves stand behind the hours and crew medians here and 27 behind the price, all of them residential jobs with a pickup or a drop-off inside Oakridge's own boundary since 2024. The all-time count above is a floor rather than a total; the twelve-month figure beside it is exact. The two price quartiles sit a long way apart, $797 and $2,207, so read $1,128 as a midpoint rather than as a quote.

What a local move cost: $1,128 median
Residential moves in Oakridge: over 30
In the last 12 months: 17
Crew hours on site: 6 median
Crew size: 3 movers median

Oakridge’s own community boundary about 1.6 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Oakridge actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 33 completed residential jobs in Oakridge. Another 9 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 apartment or condo move in Southwest Calgary

$621
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $417 and $878 · 444 moves

3.75 hours on site half ran 2.5–5 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This card is drawn from 444 one-bedroom moves across southwest Calgary rather than from Oakridge alone, so read it as what a move of that size takes anywhere in this part of the city. It is two movers and one truck, a median of $621 and 3.75 hours on site, with half the jobs running between 2.5 and 5 hours. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes; the bed frame and a wardrobe are usually the only pieces that need both movers on them at once.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 444 moves.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southwest Calgary

$920
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $665 and $1,274 · 405 moves

5 hours on site half ran 3.75–6.75 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This is a southwest Calgary figure rather than an Oakridge one: 405 two-bedroom moves stand behind the $920 median. Still two movers and one truck, and the median day is 5 hours on site with half running between 3.75 and 6.75, about an hour more than a one-bedroom for a second bedroom's worth of furniture and boxes. Half of them landed between $665 and $1,274, which is what an hourly rate does to a job whose contents are fairly predictable. Packing and bin rental are quoted separately where the boxes are not done.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 405 moves.

A three-bedroom house move in Oakridge

$1,538
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,197 and $2,412 · 11 moves

6.75 hours on site half ran 5–7.63 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A third of Oakridge's own work sits here: 11 three-bedroom moves, a median of $1,538 and 6.75 hours on site with three movers and one truck. Half of them ran between 5 and 7.63 hours and between $1,197 and $2,412. At this size the day stops being about bedrooms and becomes about the basement, the garage and whatever is behind the house, which is where the hours in the upper half of that band come from. A walkthrough before the date is what decides where in it a house lands.

33% of the moves we have completed in Oakridge · 11 moves

A four-bedroom-plus move in Oakridge

$2,452
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $2,081 and $3,976 · 8 moves

10.63 hours on site half ran 8.38–12.56 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A four-bedroom-plus move in Oakridge is a full day and then some: three movers, one truck and a median of 10.63 hours on site, with half running between 8.38 and 12.56. Eight of these have been completed inside the boundary, just under a quarter of the book, and the median is $2,452 with half falling between $2,081 and $3,976. Read that as the middle of a small sample rather than as a rate. The hourly rate is the one every other job here is billed at; what makes the day long is how much of the house is still to be packed when the crew arrives.

24% of the moves we have completed in Oakridge · 8 moves

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How much does it cost to move in Oakridge?

The median local move in Oakridge costs $1,128, total cost with tax, and half of the 27 local jobs we have closed inside the boundary fell between $797 and $2,207. Cactus bills by the hour. The rate follows the number of movers and the size of the truck, and the agreement states it before anyone starts. The band is wide because one median has to cover both a one-bedroom condo and a four-bedroom house.

What does a three-bedroom move in Oakridge cost?

$1,538 is the median for a three-bedroom move in Oakridge, and half of the 11 we have completed here fell between $1,197 and $2,412. That is typically three movers, one truck and 6.75 hours on site. A four-bedroom-plus move runs $2,452 across 8 completed jobs. Each card above gives the band, the crew and the trucks for that size.
Why does a move in Oakridge cost more than in the Calgary neighbourhoods around it?

Because the homes are bigger, not because the rate is different: the median Oakridge job runs 6 hours on site against 4 across the 36 southwest Calgary communities it is compared with, and that is what carries a $1,128 median against $736. Most homes here are single-detached houses, so a typical job is a whole house with a basement and a garage rather than an apartment's worth of boxes. The hourly rate itself is the same one every Calgary move is billed at.
How long does a move in Oakridge take?

The median move in Oakridge runs 6 hours on site, and half of the 33 jobs behind that figure ran between 3 and 8 hours. The size of the home is what moves a job inside the band: a one-bedroom is a 3.75-hour day at the southwest Calgary median, a four-bedroom-plus in Oakridge is 10.63. Because the rate is hourly the hours are the price, and there is no charge for travel time within city limits.
Is it cheaper to move at certain times of year in Oakridge?

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Oakridge is priced differently from another. What shifts with the calendar is how much work there is: Oakridge's own busiest months have been November and January, where the wider southwest Calgary set peaks in August, July and June.
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Oakridge?

Only where the truck has to sit in the street rather than the driveway: Calgary issues a Street Use Permit together with the temporary no-parking permit it requires, stated at $31.50 per day for shorter-term use, and asks for at least 5 days' notice for work as low-impact as a residential move. ParkPlus fees apply on top inside a paid parking zone. With most Oakridge homes single-detached and set back from the street, plenty of jobs here never need one.

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Moving to Oakridge, or out of it

More of the moves attributed to Oakridge are arrivals than departures: 18 came in against 13 that left, 55% of the attributed book against 39%. In a neighbourhood this heavily owner-occupied an arrival is far more often a sale closing than a lease starting, so the date moves with a possession time rather than with a building's move-in calendar, and the same day usually has somebody leaving the house at the other end of it.

The direction does not change the crew, the truck or the hourly rate; it changes what has to be ready. A move out of Oakridge most often ends somewhere else in the ring of southwest Calgary communities around it. A house-to-house day at this size means three movers and most of a working day on site, and having the basement and the garage packed before the crew arrives is worth more than anything else you can do to the number at the bottom.

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Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Oakridge’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 was the best! Mitchell and Jad were very friendly and professional. My elevator was out so they had to deal with several flights of stairs, they had such a great attitude about it and still got the job done quickly even with the inconvenience.
Alyson Bennetto
August 2023
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5 out of 5
Recently moved with Cactus and Mitchell, Jacob, and Alexei were awesome! We had a lot of stuff and they Tetris’d it into the truck to get it done in one trip and I really appreciated how careful they were with everything.
Bobby & Kristen Renaud
August 2023
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5 out of 5
These guys gave me a 9am appointment and they were there at 9 am sharp! My fault for misjudging the amount of stuff I had so we had a 14 hour moving day. But throughout the 14 hours the 2 guys were pleasant, smiling and running.
Donna H
August 2023
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5 out of 5
We had Yarik, Vlad, Mitchell and Karter move us. They were fast, efficient and organized. Finished the job much earlier than anticipated as well! Would highly recommend!
Michael Fisher
August 2023
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5 out of 5
Would highly recommend Cactus Moving! They were really easy to work with from the beginning. When I contacted them for a quote, they got back to me right away with detailed information. On moving day, Mitchell and Andreii helped me out.
Melissa Reid
August 2023
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5 out of 5
Used Cactus Moving to move my 1 bedroom apartment to a new place and they were awesome! I got quotes from a few places and Cactus was competitive with everyone else’s price.
kevin korman
August 2023
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The comparison set is 36 southwest Calgary communities and 1,674 completed moves, with Beltline, Sunalta and Downtown Commercial Core supplying the bulk of them. Oakridge sits above that set on both lines that measure a day's work, running 6 hours on site against 4 and $1,128 against $736. The size grading is almost identical, though, 64% graded small here against 66% across the ring. That combination is the tell: the same proportion of small jobs, with longer and dearer ones underneath. Each of the pages below carries its own figures.

Measure	Oakridge	Southwest Calgary
Median local move	$1,128	$736
Median crew hours on site half of Oakridge’s ran 3–8 hours	6 hrs	4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	64%	66%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	November and January	August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 36 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 30	1,674

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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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