Why does the bottom of the price range in Winston Heights start so high?

Because the lower quartile of jobs here is $659, where the pooled figure across the 18 northeast Calgary communities is $441. The very short, very small work that pulls a median down is not what this community has produced. It rests on 22 priced moves, so read it as a signal rather than as a settled fact. The hourly rate itself does not change with the address; it follows the number of movers and the size of the truck.

What does a four-bedroom move in Winston Heights cost?

$2,724 is the median for a four-bedroom-plus move here, drawn from 6 of them, with half falling between $1,948 and $2,894. That is a 10.38-hour day with four movers and two trucks, the only size on this page that takes a second truck at the median. Six jobs is a small sample, so treat it as the middle of a handful rather than as a quote for your own house.

How long does a move in Winston Heights take?

The median is 4.5 hours on site across 30 measured jobs, with half of them running between 2.5 and 7 hours. A one-bedroom here is a 2.75-hour median and a four-bedroom-plus is 10.38, which is most of that spread in one line. Because there is no charge for travel time within city limits, all of it is billed work rather than time on the road.

Does the time of year change what a move in Winston Heights costs?

No. The hourly rate is the same on every date, so the calendar changes volume rather than price. July carries the most completed moves inside this boundary, where the wider northeast Calgary set peaks in August, September and December. Since the rate is hourly and travel time within city limits is not charged, what decides the bill is the size of the job.

Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Winston Heights?

Only if the truck has to occupy the roadway or hold on-street parking, and then Calgary's Street Use Permit is the route: $31.50 a day for shorter-term use, with the temporary no-parking permit it requires included and ParkPlus fees on top inside a paid parking zone. The City asks for at least 5 days' notice for lower-impact work such as a residential move, so it belongs on the list the week before.

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Cactus has completed over 25 residential moves inside Winston Heights’s own community boundary, 15 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 Winston Heights: what we know about moving here

Winston Heights divides almost exactly in half between owning and renting, which for a moving calendar means both kinds of date in roughly equal measure: possession times and lease endings. The housing behind that is mid-century and mixed: houses, duplexes and townhouses rather than towers. So a job here is usually a front door, a staircase and a driveway rather than a lift and a loading bay.

The figure that stands out in our own record is not the median but its floor. Half of the 22 priced jobs here fell between $659 and $1,343, and that lower quartile sits far above the $441 recorded across the northeast Calgary communities pooled below. The very cheap, very short work is not what this community has generated. The median day runs 4.5 hours against the ring's 4, and the crew was two movers across the whole middle half of 30 measured jobs.

Winston Heights neighbourhood guide for moving day

The housing here is mid-century houses and duplexes with some townhouses, so the usual shape of a job is a front door, a staircase and a driveway rather than a lift and a loading bay. Tenure splits almost evenly, which means both possession dates and lease dates drive the calendar, and both kinds of notice can apply. Households are small, which keeps the loads moderate, though a staircase costs the same time whatever comes down it. If the truck needs the roadway, the City's Street Use Permit takes at least 5 days to arrange, costs $31.50 a day at the shorter-term rate, and includes the temporary no-parking permit.

Winston Heights is largely built out in the 1950s

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

People: 3,605
One-person households: 34%

2021 federal census

Homes: 1,803
What people live in: 46% single-detached houses
21% duplexes
11% townhouses
Owned or rented: 49% owned
51% 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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Winston Heights moving costs, by the numbers

Thirty is a small number of moves, and the honest way to read this band is as a range rather than a quote. Twenty-two of the 30 carry a price, and the quartiles, $659 to $1,343, describe the work better than the $822 midpoint does. All of it covers moves since 2024 whose origin or destination lay inside Winston Heights, 15 of them in the last twelve months. That recent count is exact; the all-time one is a floor.

What a local move cost: $822 median
Residential moves in Winston Heights: over 25
In the last 12 months: 15
Crew hours on site: 4.5 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Winston Heights’s own community boundary about 2.1 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move in Winston Heights actually looks like

Four sizes of move, cut out of 30 completed residential jobs in Winston Heights. Another 11 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 Winston Heights

$621
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $464 and $707 · 7 moves

2.75 hours on site half ran 2.38–3.88 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Seven one-bedroom apartment and condo moves make up 23% of what we have done in Winston Heights, and they are comfortably the shortest day here: two movers, one truck, a 2.75-hour median on site, with half running between 2.38 and 3.88 hours. Half came to between $464 and $707, the tightest price band on this page by a distance. It is the size whose contents you can most nearly predict in advance.

23% of the moves we have completed in Winston Heights · 7 moves

A two-bedroom move in Winston Heights

$1,010
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $828 and $1,195 · 6 moves

6.25 hours on site half ran 5.31–7.19 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Six two-bedroom moves, 20% of the book here, and a surprise on the numbers: at a 6.25-hour median they run longer than the three-bedroom card beside them, which is drawn from the wider northeast Calgary set. Still two movers and one truck. Half of the 6 fell between $828 and $1,195 and half ran between 5.31 and 7.19 hours. Six jobs is a small sample, so read $1,010 as the middle of a handful rather than as a rate.

20% of the moves we have completed in Winston Heights · 6 moves

A three-bedroom house or basement suite move in Northeast Calgary

$1,167
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $790 and $1,706 · 52 moves

6 hours on site half ran 4–7.81 hours
3 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This card is the northeast Calgary read on a three-bedroom house or basement suite move, drawn from 52 of them rather than from Winston Heights alone. Three movers and one truck is the median dispatch and the median day is 6 hours on site, with half running between 4 and 7.81 hours and half costing between $790 and $1,706. That is a much wider band than either of the smaller cards above, which is what a bigger sample across more kinds of home looks like.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northeast Calgary, across 52 moves.

A four-bedroom-plus move in Winston Heights

$2,724
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $1,948 and $2,894 · 6 moves

10.38 hours on site half ran 7.69–11.19 hours
4 movers · 2 trucks the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

This is the longest day on the page and the only one that takes two trucks: 6 four-bedroom-plus moves inside Winston Heights, 20% of the book, at a median of 10.38 hours on site with four movers and two trucks. Half of them ran between 7.69 and 11.19 hours and half cost between $1,948 and $2,894. Six jobs is a small sample, so read $2,724 as the middle of a handful. The hourly rate is the same one every other size is billed at.

20% of the moves we have completed in Winston Heights · 6 moves

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How much does it cost to move in Winston Heights?

The median local move in Winston Heights costs $822 with tax in, and half of the 22 priced residential jobs here fell between $659 and $1,343. That is above the $710 median across the 18 northeast Calgary communities around it, and the day is longer too, 4.5 hours against 4.

Why does the bottom of the price range in Winston Heights start so high?

Because the lower quartile of jobs here is $659, where the pooled figure across the 18 northeast Calgary communities is $441. The very short, very small work that pulls a median down is not what this community has produced. It rests on 22 priced moves, so read it as a signal rather than as a settled fact. The hourly rate itself does not change with the address; it follows the number of movers and the size of the truck.
What does a four-bedroom move in Winston Heights cost?

$2,724 is the median for a four-bedroom-plus move here, drawn from 6 of them, with half falling between $1,948 and $2,894. That is a 10.38-hour day with four movers and two trucks, the only size on this page that takes a second truck at the median. Six jobs is a small sample, so treat it as the middle of a handful rather than as a quote for your own house.
How long does a move in Winston Heights take?

The median is 4.5 hours on site across 30 measured jobs, with half of them running between 2.5 and 7 hours. A one-bedroom here is a 2.75-hour median and a four-bedroom-plus is 10.38, which is most of that spread in one line. Because there is no charge for travel time within city limits, all of it is billed work rather than time on the road.
Does the time of year change what a move in Winston Heights costs?

No. The hourly rate is the same on every date, so the calendar changes volume rather than price. July carries the most completed moves inside this boundary, where the wider northeast Calgary set peaks in August, September and December. Since the rate is hourly and travel time within city limits is not charged, what decides the bill is the size of the job.
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Winston Heights?

Only if the truck has to occupy the roadway or hold on-street parking, and then Calgary's Street Use Permit is the route: $31.50 a day for shorter-term use, with the temporary no-parking permit it requires included and ParkPlus fees on top inside a paid parking zone. The City asks for at least 5 days' notice for lower-impact work such as a residential move, so it belongs on the list the week before.

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Moving to Winston Heights, or out of it

Departures outnumber arrivals here: 17 of the moves attributed to Winston Heights were people leaving it, against 13 arriving. With the community split almost evenly between owners and renters, those departures are a genuine mix. Some run on a possession time that was set months ago, others on a lease end the building has to be told about. Which of the two yours is decides how much notice the far end needs.

13 came the other way, into the community. Whichever direction yours runs, the crew, the truck and the hourly rate are the same; what changes is which end of the day has the staircase in it, and whether anybody else has to sign off on the date.

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 Winston Heights’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 experience with Cactus movers. We had 2 different addresses to move from and it was kinda a tough timing, Monday morning. Alex and Oleg were our movers and they did a great job. Fast and efficient, polite and professional. They took care of our personal belongings in the best way possible.
Eduard Markov
moved from Cornerstone to Winston Heights, May 2026
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5 out of 5
We decided to try a moving company rather than moving on our own. Alex’s team was friendly, helpful, efficient, flexible and just an overall pleasure to work with. They made moving a pleasant experience for us and I highly recommend them!
Lori Commet
May 2021
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5 out of 5
Thank you very much for your excellent work! They showed up on time, packed, moved and unpacked even faster then we expected. Workers were taking care of our belongings as they were theirs. Affordable prices and professional workers. Highly recommended!
Hilola Kh
May 2021
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5 out of 5
Booking long distance isn't so easy, but Booking with Sam made it easy, and the move from Calgary to Vancouver went off without any problems and it wasn't as expensive as other companies 10/10 would hire again
jay de
May 2021
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5 out of 5
Had an amazing experience with this company. My move was smooth and stress free. The staff are very helpful and experienced in what they do. Will definitely use Cactus Moving services again!
Alex
May 2021
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5 out of 5
This year we decided to try new company and our pick fell on Cactus Moving. They were on time, looked very presentable, moved everything very professionally. They moved my two bedroom apartment in only 4 hours, which was great. Their rates were clear from the very beginning and no hidden fees.
Oksana Golubkova
May 2021
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Calgary

Eighteen northeast Calgary communities and 405 moves make up the pool below, Bridgeland and Crescent Heights foremost among them. Winston Heights runs longer and dearer than that pool, 4.5 hours against 4 and $822 against $710, and its lower quartile is the outlier: $659 where the pooled figure is $441. On a sample of 22 priced jobs, that gap is a signal rather than a settled fact.

Measure	Winston Heights	Northeast Calgary
Median local move	$822	$710
Median crew hours on site half of Winston Heights’s ran 2.5–7 hours	4.5 hrs	4 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	70%	67%
Busiest months by move date · a month with fewer than five moves is not published	July	August, September and December
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 18 communities, this one and everything next to it	over 25	405

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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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