What does a one-bedroom move in Richmond cost?

$410 is the median for a one-bedroom move in Richmond across 14 completed jobs, with half of them falling between $336 and $610. That is two movers, one truck and 3.25 hours on site. One-bedrooms are 25% of the work inside the boundary, and the band is narrow because the load barely varies; stairs and how far the truck can park from the door are what move a job inside it.

How much more is a three-bedroom move than a one-bedroom in Richmond?

$1,518 against $410 at the median: a three-bedroom move in Richmond runs a full working day where a one-bedroom runs a morning, 5.75 hours on site against 3.25, and with three movers rather than two. A two-bedroom sits between them at $782 and 4.5 hours. Because the rate is hourly, that gap is the hours and the extra mover rather than a different price list.

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

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Richmond is priced differently from another. What is distinctive here is when the work has happened: Richmond's own busiest months have been November, February and October, where the wider southwest Calgary set peaks in August, July and June.

Does a move in Richmond cost less than in the rest of southwest Calgary?

Yes, and it is the mix of jobs rather than the rate: $626 against $747 across the 40 southwest Calgary communities Richmond is grouped with, on a median day of 3.88 hours against 4, with 70% of Richmond jobs graded small against 66%. Both of Richmond's price quartiles sit inside the wider set's, so the long expensive day is rarer here. The hourly rate itself is identical everywhere in the city.

How long does a move in Richmond take?

The median move in Richmond runs 3.88 hours on site, and half of the 56 jobs behind that figure ran between 2.5 and 5.31 hours. A one-bedroom here is a 3.25-hour day, a two-bedroom 4.5 and a three-bedroom 5.75, so the size of the home is what decides where in that band a job lands. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so only the hours worked are billed.

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Movers in Richmond: what we know about moving here

Richmond's book is small work at a steady pace. 70% of the 56 moves completed inside the boundary graded small and 27% medium, the median day runs 3.88 hours on site against 4 across the 40 southwest Calgary communities around it, and the median local move came to $626 with tax against $747. The crew line is the tell: two movers is the median, and the middle half of these jobs used exactly two.

The community behind that is a mid-century one where no kind of home dominates. Houses are the largest share, duplexes and apartments each take a real slice, and owning runs a little ahead of renting. Households are small and a large share of them are one person on their own, which is why the loads stay light even though most homes here are not apartments. A Richmond job is more often a front door and a street than a lobby and a lift, and that moves the planning from the elevator to the kerb.

Richmond neighbourhood guide for moving day

Two things on this list change a moving day in Richmond. The first is that the households are small, a large share of them one person on their own, so the loads stay lighter than the share of houses on the panel would suggest. The second is that apartments are the smallest part of the housing mix, which means most jobs work off a street or a driveway rather than a loading bay and the planning moves from the elevator to the kerb. Where the truck has to hold a kerb lane, Calgary's Street Use Permit and the temporary no-parking permit that comes with it run $31.50 a day and want at least 5 days' notice.

Richmond is largely built out in the 1950s

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

People: 5,250
One-person households: 32%

2021 federal census

Homes: 2,503
What people live in: 41% single-detached houses
26% duplexes
19% apartments
Owned or rented: 56% owned
44% 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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Richmond moving costs, by the numbers

Every row here is drawn from residential work with a pickup or a drop-off inside Richmond's own boundary since 2024: 56 jobs on the duration and crew lines, 47 on the price line. The all-time count is written as a floor rather than a total; the 29 in the last twelve months is exact, and on a book this size it is the more useful of the two. The price quartiles, $434 and $929, sit closer together than the surrounding set's $441 and $1,179, which is what a run of small jobs does to a range.

What a local move cost: $626 median
Residential moves in Richmond: over 50
In the last 12 months: 29
Crew hours on site: 3.88 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Richmond’s own community boundary about 1.8 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Richmond actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 56 completed residential jobs in Richmond. Another 16 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 Richmond

$410
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $336 and $610 · 14 moves

3.25 hours on site half ran 2.5–4.19 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A quarter of Richmond's book is one-bedroom moves, 14 of them, and they run two movers, one truck and a median of 3.25 hours on site. The median is $410, with half of them falling between $336 and $610 and half of the days between 2.5 and 4.19 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 at once, and stairs are what carry a job up that band.

25% of the moves we have completed in Richmond · 14 moves

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Richmond

$782
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $481 and $878 · 18 moves

4.5 hours on site half ran 3.31–5.19 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two-bedrooms are the largest single slice of Richmond's book at 32%, and 18 of them stand behind these figures: still two movers and one truck, a median of $782 and 4.5 hours on site. Half ran between 3.31 and 5.19 hours and half landed between $481 and $878. That is a bit over an hour longer than a one-bedroom here, for a second bedroom's worth of furniture and boxes. Where the address is a building, the lift and a loading spot are worth booking before the date.

32% of the moves we have completed in Richmond · 18 moves

A three-bedroom move in Richmond

$1,518
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $842 and $1,767 · 8 moves

5.75 hours on site half ran 4–7 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

At three bedrooms the crew goes to three movers and one truck, and the median day is 5.75 hours on site. Only 8 of Richmond's moves have been this size, 14% of the book, so read $1,518 as the middle of a small sample; half of them fell between $842 and $1,767 and half ran between 4 and 7 hours. That is the widest price band on the page, because at this size the basement, the garage and the state of the packing decide the day.

14% of the moves we have completed in Richmond · 8 moves

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Southwest Calgary

$1,880
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $882 and $2,975 · 73 moves

8 hours on site half ran 4.25–10 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Fewer than five moves of this size sit inside Richmond's own boundary, so this card is drawn from 73 four-bedroom-plus house moves across southwest Calgary. It is three movers and one truck, a median of $1,880 and 8 hours on site, with half running between 4.25 and 10 hours and half falling between $882 and $2,975. The hourly rate is the same one every local move is billed at; what makes a day this long is how much of the house is still to be packed when the crew arrives.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 73 moves.

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How much does it cost to move in Richmond?

The median local move in Richmond costs $626, total cost with tax, and half of the 47 local jobs we have closed inside the boundary fell between $434 and $929. Two movers is the median crew here, and the middle half of these jobs used exactly two.

What does a one-bedroom move in Richmond cost?

$410 is the median for a one-bedroom move in Richmond across 14 completed jobs, with half of them falling between $336 and $610. That is two movers, one truck and 3.25 hours on site. One-bedrooms are 25% of the work inside the boundary, and the band is narrow because the load barely varies; stairs and how far the truck can park from the door are what move a job inside it.
How much more is a three-bedroom move than a one-bedroom in Richmond?

$1,518 against $410 at the median: a three-bedroom move in Richmond runs a full working day where a one-bedroom runs a morning, 5.75 hours on site against 3.25, and with three movers rather than two. A two-bedroom sits between them at $782 and 4.5 hours. Because the rate is hourly, that gap is the hours and the extra mover rather than a different price list.
Is it cheaper to move at certain times of year in Richmond?

No. The hourly rate does not change by month, so no date in Richmond is priced differently from another. What is distinctive here is when the work has happened: Richmond's own busiest months have been November, February and October, where the wider southwest Calgary set peaks in August, July and June.
Does a move in Richmond cost less than in the rest of southwest Calgary?

Yes, and it is the mix of jobs rather than the rate: $626 against $747 across the 40 southwest Calgary communities Richmond is grouped with, on a median day of 3.88 hours against 4, with 70% of Richmond jobs graded small against 66%. Both of Richmond's price quartiles sit inside the wider set's, so the long expensive day is rarer here. The hourly rate itself is identical everywhere in the city.
How long does a move in Richmond take?

The median move in Richmond runs 3.88 hours on site, and half of the 56 jobs behind that figure ran between 2.5 and 5.31 hours. A one-bedroom here is a 3.25-hour day, a two-bedroom 4.5 and a three-bedroom 5.75, so the size of the home is what decides where in that band a job lands. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so only the hours worked are billed.

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Moving to Richmond, or out of it

Richmond's book is split down the middle: 27 of the moves attributed to it were arrivals and 27 were departures, 48% each way. Very little separates the two directions here, and the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are the same whichever way a job runs.

With owning running a little ahead of renting across the housing, a Richmond move can be following a possession date or a lease date, and the two fix the day differently: a lease date is set weeks out and the building wants notice, while a possession date is settled at a lawyer's end. A move out of Richmond most often ends somewhere else in the ring of southwest Calgary communities around it, and there is no charge for travel time within city limits either way.

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Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Richmond’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
Great service, very efficient. Would highly recommend. They sent complimentary coffee in the morning and gave a cactus plant upon finishing the move in!
Hailey McVee
moved from Richmond to Medicine Hill, April 2026 · 1 bedroom
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5 out of 5
Andrii, Max and Niko were amazing! They were super quick, efficient, polite and friendly. Everything was moved at an awesome speed and with great care to make sure nothing broke. Highly recommend this company
Tierza (Tierza Nelson)
June 2023
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5 out of 5
Just got moved by them today. They were very good at communicating before getting there, including sending me a text 20 minutes before they arrived. They arrived during the 3 hour window they gave me. They had a very efficient method for packing items which helped with time.
Emerson Woods
June 2023
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5 out of 5
Andrii and Max helped make my move today easy breezy. They were expedient and very friendly. Thank you, guys!
J P
June 2023
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5 out of 5
It was my first time using a professional moving company and I am very happy with the service. Cactus moving has competitive pricing. They arrived on time, were efficient and very detail oriented. So much better than doing it myself!
Kayla Mah
June 2023
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5 out of 5
We had cactus moving move us all the way across the city and they did it all in 3. 5 hours!! They are super fast, and make it look easy even though you know it isn’t. They made my move a simple, stress free day and I super appreciate them!
Tanya Daniluk
June 2023
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The ring counted around Richmond is 40 southwest Calgary communities and 1,748 completed moves, led on volume by Beltline, Sunalta and Downtown Commercial Core. Richmond comes in under that set on both money and time, at $626 against $747 and 3.88 hours on site against 4. Both of its price quartiles, $434 and $929, sit inside the wider set's $441 and $1,179. That is what a run of small jobs looks like in aggregate: 70% graded small here against 66% across the ring.

Measure	Richmond	Southwest Calgary
Median local move	$626	$747
Median crew hours on site half of Richmond’s ran 2.5–5.31 hours	3.88 hrs	4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	70%	66%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	November, February and October	August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 40 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 50	1,748

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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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