What does it cost to move a three-bedroom house in West Springs?

$1,719 is the median for a three-bedroom house move here, drawn from 11 of them, with half falling between $1,053 and $2,954. That size is dispatched with four movers and one truck at the median rather than three, and runs a 6.75-hour day. Eleven jobs is a modest sample, so treat the figure as the middle of a small set rather than as a quote.

How predictable is the price of a two-bedroom move in West Springs?

More predictable than most sizes here: half of the 26 two-bedroom apartment and condo moves we have completed in West Springs fell between $774 and $1,296, inside a community band that runs $540 to $1,348. The median is $916 on a 5.38-hour day with two movers and one truck. At 33% of the book it is also the commonest job in the community, which is why the card above rests on our own moves rather than on a wider read.

Does it cost more to move in West Springs at certain times of year?

No. The hourly rate is the same whatever the date, so nothing on the calendar changes the price. The volume does change, and West Springs runs on its own calendar: June, March and April carry the most completed moves inside the boundary, against an August, July and June peak across southwest Calgary as a whole. What decides your bill is the size of the job and the hours it takes.

Why do prices in West Springs range so widely?

Because one median has to cover every size of home, and the hours behind it run from 2.75 to 6.69 in the middle half alone. A one-bedroom here is a 3-hour median at $485; a four-bedroom-plus at the southwest Calgary read is an 8-hour median at $1,961. The same hourly rate produces both, which is why the cards above split the jobs by size rather than leaving the $540 to $1,348 band to do all the work.

Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in West Springs?

Only where the truck has to occupy the roadway or hold on-street parking. Most homes in West Springs are detached with a driveway, so that is the exception rather than the rule. The permit for it is Calgary's Street Use Permit, $31.50 a day for shorter-term use with the temporary no-parking permit included and ParkPlus fees on top in a paid parking zone. It is wanted at least 5 days before the date, so it is filed the week the possession day is confirmed.

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Movers in West Springs: what we know about moving here

West Springs is a community of owner-occupied houses that is still building out, and the households in it are big: the kind of home where a move is a whole household rather than a room. Most jobs here begin in a driveway rather than at a lobby door, and the date follows a possession time far more often than the end of a lease.

The work is correspondingly heavier. The median local move came to $908 against $736 across the surrounding southwest Calgary communities, and the median day ran 4.63 hours against 4. Both figures sit above the ring, on a book where 56% of jobs graded small against 67% next door. Three of the four cards below rest on West Springs's own completed moves, at one, two and three bedrooms; only the four-bedroom-plus card widens to the southwest Calgary set.

West Springs neighbourhood guide for moving day

Most homes here are owned and most of them are detached, so a West Springs job usually begins at a driveway and the constraint is the house rather than the lift. Households are big, which means family loads: a garage, a basement and stairs at both ends of the day. The community is also still building out, so some arrivals are into homes nobody has lived in before. Where the truck genuinely has to occupy the road, the City issues a Street Use Permit at $31.50 a day for shorter-term use with the temporary no-parking permit included, and it asks for the application at least 5 days ahead.

West Springs is still building out

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

People: 11,560
One-person households: 15%

2021 federal census

Homes: 3,856
What people live in: 68% single-detached houses
16% townhouses
10% apartments
Owned or rented: 77% owned
23% 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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West Springs moving costs, by the numbers

Forty-four of the 78 residential moves attributed to West Springs since 2024 fall inside the last twelve months, so more than half of this record is recent. A job counts here when an address at one end or the other of it sits inside the community boundary. The all-time total is written as a floor rather than an exact count; the twelve-month number is exact.

What a local move cost: $908 median
Residential moves in West Springs: over 70
In the last 12 months: 44
Crew hours on site: 4.63 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

West Springs’s own community boundary about 2.7 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in West Springs actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 78 completed residential jobs in West Springs. Another 28 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 move in West Springs

$485
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $383 and $813 · 11 moves

3 hours on site half ran 2.5–4.88 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A one-bedroom move is the shortest day we run in West Springs: a median of 3 hours on site with two movers and one truck, and half of the 11 running between 2.5 and 4.88 hours. Half came to between $383 and $813. At 14% of the book it is a small part of what we do here, which fits a community of family houses: these are the single rooms and small suites inside it rather than its typical home.

14% of the moves we have completed in West Springs · 11 moves

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in West Springs

$916
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $774 and $1,296 · 26 moves

5.38 hours on site half ran 4.25–6.75 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two-bedroom apartment and condo moves are the commonest single job in West Springs, at 33% of the book across 26 of them. Two movers and one truck, a 5.38-hour median on site, and a tight middle half at both ends: 4.25 to 6.75 hours, and $774 to $1,296. That band is narrower than the community's overall $540 to $1,348, which is what happens when the jobs behind a figure are all roughly the same shape.

33% of the moves we have completed in West Springs · 26 moves

A three-bedroom house move in West Springs

$1,719
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,053 and $2,954 · 11 moves

6.75 hours on site half ran 5.38–11.38 hours
4 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This is the one card on this page where the median dispatch is four movers rather than three, on one truck, with a 6.75-hour median day. Half of the 11 ran between 5.38 and 11.38 hours and half cost between $1,053 and $2,954, a wide gap for a single size. Eleven jobs is a modest sample, so read $1,719 as the middle of a small set rather than as a rate for your own house.

14% of the moves we have completed in West Springs · 11 moves

A four-bedroom-plus house move in Southwest Calgary

$1,961
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $847 and $3,112 · 65 moves

8 hours on site half ran 4–10.75 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This card is the southwest Calgary read on a four-bedroom-plus house move, drawn from 65 of them rather than from West Springs alone. It is the longest day at any size: an 8-hour median on site on a median dispatch of three movers and one truck, with half running from 4 to 10.75 hours. Half cost between $847 and $3,112. The rate is the same hourly one every other job is billed at; what makes the day long is how much of the house is still loose when we arrive.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Calgary, across 65 moves.

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How much does it cost to move in West Springs?

The median local move in West Springs costs $908 with tax in, and half of the 62 priced residential jobs here fell between $540 and $1,348. That is dearer at the middle than the $736 across the 36 southwest Calgary communities around it, and the day is longer as well, 4.63 hours against 4. A local move is billed hourly, at a rate the agreement states before the crew starts.

What does it cost to move a three-bedroom house in West Springs?

$1,719 is the median for a three-bedroom house move here, drawn from 11 of them, with half falling between $1,053 and $2,954. That size is dispatched with four movers and one truck at the median rather than three, and runs a 6.75-hour day. Eleven jobs is a modest sample, so treat the figure as the middle of a small set rather than as a quote.
How predictable is the price of a two-bedroom move in West Springs?

More predictable than most sizes here: half of the 26 two-bedroom apartment and condo moves we have completed in West Springs fell between $774 and $1,296, inside a community band that runs $540 to $1,348. The median is $916 on a 5.38-hour day with two movers and one truck. At 33% of the book it is also the commonest job in the community, which is why the card above rests on our own moves rather than on a wider read.
Does it cost more to move in West Springs at certain times of year?

No. The hourly rate is the same whatever the date, so nothing on the calendar changes the price. The volume does change, and West Springs runs on its own calendar: June, March and April carry the most completed moves inside the boundary, against an August, July and June peak across southwest Calgary as a whole. What decides your bill is the size of the job and the hours it takes.
Why do prices in West Springs range so widely?

Because one median has to cover every size of home, and the hours behind it run from 2.75 to 6.69 in the middle half alone. A one-bedroom here is a 3-hour median at $485; a four-bedroom-plus at the southwest Calgary read is an 8-hour median at $1,961. The same hourly rate produces both, which is why the cards above split the jobs by size rather than leaving the $540 to $1,348 band to do all the work.
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in West Springs?

Only where the truck has to occupy the roadway or hold on-street parking. Most homes in West Springs are detached with a driveway, so that is the exception rather than the rule. The permit for it is Calgary's Street Use Permit, $31.50 a day for shorter-term use with the temporary no-parking permit included and ParkPlus fees on top in a paid parking zone. It is wanted at least 5 days before the date, so it is filed the week the possession day is confirmed.

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Moving to West Springs, or out of it

More of the moves attributed to West Springs are arrivals than departures: 38 came into the community against 30 that left it. With most homes here owned, an arrival is usually a possession date rather than a lease start: the date is set by paperwork rather than chosen, and it is often the same day somebody else's move out has to finish. A community still building out adds a share of first occupancies on top of that.

Another 10 ran from one West Springs address to another. Whichever direction yours runs, the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are the same; what changes is how many of the day's hours are spent at the far end, and whether the driveway there is clear when the truck arrives.

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Five-star Google reviews from customers whose move Cactus completed, newest first, preferring the ones whose job falls inside West Springs’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
Efficient, polite, meticulous and bery careful to treat our belongings with respect and lots of cars taken to not damage the house as well. Will recommend y'all to everyone!
Emma DeCecco
moved from West Hillhurst to West Springs, June 2026 · 1 bedroom
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5 out of 5
Prompt, efficient, courteous, and most important - patient! They were very careful not to dent or scratch any surfaces, both the furniture and the walls. Would definitely recommend.
Dawna Michaud
moved from West Hillhurst to West Springs, May 2026 · 3 bedroom
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5 out of 5
Amazing experience with them. They were more than accommodating with multiple changes we made in scheduling, amount of boxes/furniture, etc. and the two movers they sent were fantastic.
Gabriela
moved within West Springs, April 2026 · 2 bedroom
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5 out of 5
So amazing and more affordable than other Calgary companies! Can’t say enough nice things about this company - they truly go above and beyond and have a new loyal customer from us. Jason and Taras made our move so easy and even fun! Thank you!
Holly Ratke-Gutierrez
moved from Westgate to West Springs, May 2025 · 2 bedroom
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5 out of 5
movers were right on time; professional, excellent team work. It was during the summer heatwave when I moved, and the Cactus Moving team did such an awesome job! No complaints about the heat; just got the job done! I would strongly recommend Cactus Moving.
P Giltner
September 2021
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5 out of 5
So happy with my moving experience today! Nolan and Daniel were absolutely amazing. They were super efficient with how they packed the truck, and loaded the elevator. They worked so hard! and also they were really nice to chat with on the elevator rides haha.
Chloe N.
September 2021
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

The band underneath pools 1,667 moves from 36 southwest Calgary communities, Beltline and Sunalta among them. West Springs is dearer and longer than that pool on every measure: $908 in the middle against $736, 4.63 hours against 4, and an upper quartile of $1,348 against $1,168. The size mix is what sits behind it. The pooled set is 67% small jobs and West Springs 56%, with 36% of the work here graded medium.

Measure	West Springs	Southwest Calgary
Median local move	$908	$736
Median crew hours on site half of West Springs’s ran 2.75–6.69 hours	4.63 hrs	4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	56%	67%
Graded a large move	8%	6%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	June, March and April	August, July and June
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 36 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 70	1,667

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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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