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Henderson Estates Movers, Edmonton

Cactus has completed over 190 residential moves across southwest Edmonton: Henderson Estates and the 53 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.

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Movers in Henderson Estates: what we know about moving here

Henderson Estates is a small southwest Edmonton community of detached houses, almost all of them owner-occupied and most of them put up in the 1980s. Two things follow for a moving day. Dates here are set by possessions and sales rather than by the end of a lease, which usually means they are known weeks ahead and the crew's start time matters more than the date does.

And the homes are full ones: a driveway rather than a building door, and a garage and a basement to clear as well as the rooms upstairs. The measured figures below come from the ring of southwest Edmonton communities Henderson Estates belongs to.

Moving costs around Henderson Estates, by the numbers

That ring is 53 southwest Edmonton communities and 199 completed residential moves. Seventy per cent of them were graded small and 5% large. The middle one took 4.75 hours on site, with half between 2.5 and 7.5 hours, and cost $861 with tax counted; a quarter came in under $469 and a quarter ran past $1,496. Garneau contributes 21 of those moves, Haddow and Terwillegar South 11 each.

The comparison set
53 neighbourhoods · 199 moves

communities in southwest Edmonton: this one and every community next to it

Crew hours on site
4.75 median

half ran 2.5–7.5 hours · 199 moves

How big those moves are
70% small · 25% medium · 5% large
Busiest months
August, June and April

August 30, June 25, April 24

What those moves cost
$861 median

half fell between $469 and $1,496 · based on 199 residential moves, total cost with tax

Simplified outline of the official Henderson Estates community boundary in Edmonton, with a dot marking its centre.
Henderson Estates’s own community boundary about 0.9 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

How much does it cost to move in Henderson Estates?

$861 is the median local move across the 199 residential jobs recorded in the southwest Edmonton communities around Henderson Estates, total cost with tax, with half of them between $469 and $1,496. A local move is billed by the hour, at a rate set by how many movers and how much truck the job takes, and the agreement names that rate before anyone starts.

  • Why is the price range so wide?

    Because one median has to cover every size of home in the set, from a single room's worth of furniture to a full house with a basement and a garage behind it. Across those 199 moves half ran between 2.5 and 7.5 hours on site, and on an hourly rate that spread of hours is the spread of prices. The larger the home and the more stairs between the door and the truck, the further up the band a job lands.

  • How long does a move in Henderson Estates take?

    The middle move across those 199 southwest Edmonton jobs ran 4.75 hours on site, with half of them between 2.5 and 7.5 hours. A detached home holding 2.9 people at the median is at the fuller side of what that band covers, so it is worth planning the day rather than the morning.

  • Do you charge for travel time to Henderson Estates?

    No. There is no charge for travel time within city limits, so a move here is billed for the hours the crew is actually working. There is no deposit on a local move and no fuel surcharge either; the rate written into the agreement is the rate, and nothing is added afterwards.

  • Do I need a permit to park the truck on the street?

    Only if the truck cannot use the driveway. Standing on the roadway is covered by Edmonton's On-Street Construction and Maintenance permit, which currently carries no fee. Low-impact work wants a minimum of 6 working days' notice and high-impact work 10, with processing time on top, easy enough to meet where the date has been fixed for weeks.

Call Edmonton or get a quote online. Either works.

Henderson Estates neighbourhood guide for moving day

This panel says one thing that changes the day and one that changes the week. The day: this is detached-house work at ground level, with no home in a building of five storeys or more, so the crew plans around a driveway, a front step and an interior stair rather than a lift and a loading bay. The week: if the truck has to occupy the roadway instead of the drive, Edmonton's On-Street Construction and Maintenance permit is the mechanism. It carries no fee at present and asks for a minimum of 6 working days on a low-impact request.

Most homes in Henderson Estates were built 1981 to 1990

2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home

People
1,735
Homes
610

People per household

2.9

2021 federal census

What people live in
92% single-detached houses
In a building of five storeys or more
0% of homes
One-person households
11%

2021 federal census

Owned or rented
  • 98% owned
  • 2% rented

2021 federal census, 25% sample

Booking the curb

On-Street Construction and Maintenance (OSCAM) Permit

City of Edmonton
What it costs
No fee currently: OSCAM Permits associated with Temporary Crossing, Tree Shrub Hoarding and Waste Bin, POD or SeaCan work reasons currently have no fees associated with them. A daily permitting fee for on-street placement of commercial waste bins, PODs or SeaCans is planned but is on hold until further notice.
How much notice
Average processing time is 6 business days. Low-impact projects should be submitted a minimum of 6 working days prior to start of work; high-impact projects a minimum of 10 working days. Longer processing during peak construction season (March to October).

Not sure whether your block needs an OSCAM permit before the truck arrives? Booking the curb in Henderson Estates is something we do every week: talk to our Edmonton team

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.

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 Henderson Estates’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.

181 five-star reviews with a written comment on our Edmonton listing since February 2024

  • 5 out of 5

    (Translated by Google) I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Andriy for his professionalism and conscientious work. He completed the task quickly, accurately and with full dedication.

    Вероника Жуковская

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    The guys helped us with our move, and we liked everything. Thank you so much to the mover Andrey from Edmonton! I definitely recommend them!

    Anastasiia Berdar

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    My experience was perfect. I had some very expensive fragile items and worried about moving process a lot. But Ivan L and Andrii cared about my items. Thanks boys to be patient with me. You left best moving experience so far

    Maryna Trofimova

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    If you want super high quality level of service - this company is your key! Respect to my movers Ivan L. and Anton for your speed and quality at the same time. You guys are beasts!!!

    Даня Трофимов

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Don't have a lot of words. Just professionals of what they doing. Thanks to Ivan L and Andrii to be super accurate with my stuff. Beautiful work!

    Rinat “SkyL1ne” Gazimullin

    October 2024

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  • 5 out of 5

    Moving with Cactus Moving was a real pleasure. Ivan L and Andrii exceeded all our expectations! They arrived on time, quickly assessed what needed to be done, and got to work. Each item was carefully packed and loaded into the truck.

    Yegor Muzechka

    October 2024

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