Why does a move in Silverado cost more than one elsewhere in southwest Calgary?

Because the days run longer: 5.75 hours on site at the median here against 4 across the 1,841 moves in the wider southwest Calgary set, and only 56% of Silverado's graded small against 66% there. The hourly rate is the same one in both places; the size of the job it is applied to is not.

What does a two-bedroom move in Silverado cost?

$1,089 is the median for a two-bedroom move in Silverado, with half of the thirteen we have completed falling between $1,003 and $1,421. That is two movers, one truck and about 6.5 hours on site. It is the size we have done most often here, which makes it the steadiest figure on the page.

How many movers and trucks does a Silverado move need?

Two movers and one truck is the median for a Silverado job, with half of the 43 we have measured using two or three movers. One truck covers all four sizes on this page, the four-bedroom-plus card included. A larger crew costs more per hour and finishes sooner, and which way that lands is settled at the walkthrough rather than on the day.

Is moving into a newly built home in Silverado any different?

The billing is identical, hourly, with the rate stated in the agreement before anyone starts. The day tends to be longer here, a median of 5.75 hours on site against 4 across the wider southwest Calgary set. Silverado is still building out, and 23 of the moves attributed to it were arrivals against 16 departures, so most of this work has been a load-in rather than a load-out.

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

Only where the truck has to sit in the kerb lane rather than on a driveway. Calgary issues a Street Use Permit at $31.50 a day for shorter-term use, with the temporary no-parking permit included and ParkPlus fees on top inside a paid parking zone, and asks for at least 5 days' notice. There is no deposit on the move itself, no fuel surcharge and no charge for travel time within city limits.

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Cactus has completed over 40 residential moves inside Silverado’s own community boundary, 18 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 Silverado: what we know about moving here

Silverado is still building out, and that shows up in our own record before any census figure does. It is a community of houses with large households in them, owned far more often than rented, so a job here is a whole-house inventory rather than a suite: a garage to empty, a basement to clear, a crew on site for the day rather than the morning.

The hours say it more bluntly. The median Silverado move ran 5.75 hours on site against 4 across the wider southwest Calgary set, and 56% of these jobs graded small where that set grades 66%. The work here is bigger. The middle half spread from 3 to 7.63 hours, which is the distance between a short morning and a long day, and the four cards below cut the same jobs by the size of the home so that one figure is not asked to cover both.

Silverado neighbourhood guide for moving day

Silverado is still building out, and the cards here read the way a growing community of houses does: large households, very few of them one person living alone, and far more owning than renting. For a move that means whole-house inventories rather than suite-sized ones, a garage to empty, and a crew on site long enough to need parking that will hold all day. On a newer street the driveway usually covers it. Where it does not, Calgary's Street Use Permit takes the truck to the kerb at $31.50 a day with the temporary no-parking permit folded in, and wants at least 5 days' notice.

Silverado is still building out

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

People: 7,975
One-person households: 13%

2021 federal census

Homes: 2,588
What people live in: 71% single-detached houses
18% townhouses
6% duplexes
Owned or rented: 78% owned
22% 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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Silverado moving costs, by the numbers

Forty-three completed moves carry the hours and crew medians here and 37 carry the price, all of them residential jobs with a pickup or a drop-off inside Silverado's own boundary since 2024. The all-time figure is written as a floor rather than a total, while the 18 recorded in the last twelve months is an exact count. The interquartile range on duration, 3 to 7.63 hours, is the row that does most of the explaining on this page.

What a local move cost: $1,097 median
Residential moves in Silverado: over 40
In the last 12 months: 18
Crew hours on site: 5.75 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Silverado’s own community boundary about 3.5 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Silverado actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 43 completed residential jobs in Silverado. Another 13 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

$619
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $417 and $874 · 462 moves

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

Fewer than five one-bedroom moves sit inside Silverado's own boundary, so the figures here are drawn from 462 of them across southwest Calgary instead. Two movers and one truck, a median of 3.75 hours on site, and a middle half running 2.5 to 5 hours. At this size the work is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of cartons, and what decides the day is the stairs, how far the truck can sit from the door, and how much is boxed before the crew arrives.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 462 moves.

A two-bedroom move in Silverado

$1,089
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,003 and $1,421 · 13 moves

6.5 hours on site half ran 4.25–7.5 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Thirteen completed moves sit behind this card, more than any other size in Silverado, and they run two movers on one truck with a median of 6.5 hours on site. That is a long day for two bedrooms, and it is where the community's overall median gets much of its length. The price band is fairly tight, $1,003 to $1,421 across the middle half, which is what hourly billing does to jobs whose contents are broadly similar. Half of these days ran 4.25 to 7.5 hours.

30% of the moves we have completed in Silverado · 13 moves

A three-bedroom move in Silverado

$1,333
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,188 and $1,824 · 9 moves

7 hours on site half ran 6.25–10 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Three movers and one truck at this size, and a median of 7 hours on site across nine completed moves. That is a full working day, with the middle half running 6.25 to 10 hours. Half the totals landed between $1,188 and $1,824. In a community of newer houses a three-bedroom job usually means a garage and a basement on top of the bedrooms, and that is what lifts the upper end of the band rather than the room count itself.

21% of the moves we have completed in Silverado · 9 moves

A four-bedroom-plus house or basement suite move in Southwest Calgary

$1,993
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $873 and $2,676 · 76 moves

8 hours on site half ran 4.5–10 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A four-bedroom-plus day is drawn here from 76 moves across southwest Calgary rather than from Silverado alone. Three movers, one truck, and a median of 8 hours on site, with the middle half spread from 4.5 to 10 hours and half the totals between $873 and $2,676. That spread is mostly packing: a house of this size that is fully boxed when the crew arrives is a different day from one that is not, and packing services can be booked alongside the move.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 76 moves.

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How much does it cost to move in Silverado?

The median local move in Silverado costs $1,097, total cost with tax, and half of the 37 local jobs we have closed here fell between $532 and $1,421. That band is wide because the days are: half of the 43 moves with hours on file ran between 3 and 7.63 hours on site, so an hourly job that runs a full day lands at the top of it.

Why does a move in Silverado cost more than one elsewhere in southwest Calgary?

Because the days run longer: 5.75 hours on site at the median here against 4 across the 1,841 moves in the wider southwest Calgary set, and only 56% of Silverado's graded small against 66% there. The hourly rate is the same one in both places; the size of the job it is applied to is not.
What does a two-bedroom move in Silverado cost?

$1,089 is the median for a two-bedroom move in Silverado, with half of the thirteen we have completed falling between $1,003 and $1,421. That is two movers, one truck and about 6.5 hours on site. It is the size we have done most often here, which makes it the steadiest figure on the page.
How many movers and trucks does a Silverado move need?

Two movers and one truck is the median for a Silverado job, with half of the 43 we have measured using two or three movers. One truck covers all four sizes on this page, the four-bedroom-plus card included. A larger crew costs more per hour and finishes sooner, and which way that lands is settled at the walkthrough rather than on the day.
Is moving into a newly built home in Silverado any different?

The billing is identical, hourly, with the rate stated in the agreement before anyone starts. The day tends to be longer here, a median of 5.75 hours on site against 4 across the wider southwest Calgary set. Silverado is still building out, and 23 of the moves attributed to it were arrivals against 16 departures, so most of this work has been a load-in rather than a load-out.
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Silverado?

Only where the truck has to sit in the kerb lane rather than on a driveway. Calgary issues a Street Use Permit at $31.50 a day for shorter-term use, with the temporary no-parking permit included and ParkPlus fees on top inside a paid parking zone, and asks for at least 5 days' notice. There is no deposit on the move itself, no fuel surcharge and no charge for travel time within city limits.

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Moving to Silverado, or out of it

Most of the moves attributed to Silverado are arrivals: 23 came into the community against 16 that left it, which is what a community still building out looks like in a move ledger. A load-in is a different day from a load-out. There is usually somewhere for the truck to stand, but nothing is where it will end up, and the crew is placing rather than clearing.

Homes here are owned far more often than rented, so those arrivals mostly run on a possession date rather than a lease date: a firm day set weeks ahead, and a handover that shifts the whole schedule if it slips.

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Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside Silverado’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!! Thank you for the adorable little cacti! It makes for a great housewarming gift ❣️
Shyann Amodeo
moved from Silverado to Chaparral, September 2025 · 2 bedroom
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5 out of 5
The crew from Cactus Moving were hard working and efficient. Not one item was damaged and there was not one scratch or dent in the walls. The guys were very polite and respectful and always offered to reassemble all furniture. I would highly recommend them for any moving needs.
Angela Reimche
moved from Chaparral to Silverado, September 2025 · 3 bedroom
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5 out of 5
Aug 31 2022 Roman Nolan & Vadim showed up right on time - and after the move on ONE HOT DAY- they were as positive and energetic as they were when they arrived.
John Kearney
September 2022
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5 out of 5
We recently hired Cactus moving for our new home. We had two gentleman Daniel and Danny, they were absolutely incredible. They were friendly, professional and so easy to work with. Will definitely be using them again in the future and recommending to family and friends!
Montana Bishop
September 2022
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5 out of 5
What a great moving company! The movers had everything handy to wrap and protect my items, they were very fast and efficient. The team I had was Mitch & Kory, I call them the dream team. They communicated so well and were very kind! Would highly recommend this company!
Mandi
September 2022
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5 out of 5
Loved working with these guys! I needed a large sectional moved from a friend's basement up narrow stairs and around 3 narrow corners and delivered to my son a few kilometers away. I asked for a quote, got a very reasonable one very quickly.
Darlene Hull
August 2022
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

Forty-one southwest Calgary communities make up the wider band Silverado belongs to, 1,841 moves between them. Silverado sits above that band on both lines that matter, $1,097 against a $744 median and 5.75 hours against 4. The explanation is in the census panel rather than the rate: a community of houses with large households in them, still building out. Each of the pages below carries its own figures.

Measure	Silverado	Southwest Calgary
Median local move	$1,097	$744
Median crew hours on site half of Silverado’s ran 3–7.63 hours	5.75 hrs	4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	56%	66%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	November, August and July	August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 41 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 40	1,841

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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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