Sherbrooke Movers, Edmonton
Cactus has completed over 260 residential moves across northwest Edmonton: Sherbrooke and the 23 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
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Sherbrooke is long settled and small. The band holding its middle home is the earliest one on the panel below, around two thirds of the housing is detached, and nothing here stands five storeys or higher. A job in Sherbrooke is a front door and an interior staircase far more often than a lobby, a booked lift and a shared loading bay.
The rest of the stock is low-rise apartments and row houses, which means roughly one home in three sits behind a shared entrance rather than a private one. Which of the two yours is is worth saying when the job is quoted: it is the detail that changes how long a crew is on site, more than the neighbourhood itself ever will. Households are modest too, three in ten of them a single person, and that is the same shape as the surrounding northwest communities, where three quarters of the completed work was graded small.
The move figures beneath this paragraph come from those communities rather than from Sherbrooke alone.
Moving costs around Sherbrooke, by the numbers
Twenty-three northwest Edmonton communities feed that comparison, with 261 completed residential moves behind it. Oliver, Downtown, Queen Mary Park, Westmount, Inglewood and Glenora carry most of the volume. The middle job came to $695 with tax in and 3.75 hours on site, with the middle half of the work between $488 and $1,082 and 75% of it graded small. It is a short-day, small-load picture, and Sherbrooke's own low-rise and detached housing belongs squarely in it.
- The comparison set
- 23 neighbourhoods · 261 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 3.75 median
- How big those moves are
- 75% small · 21% medium · 5% large
- Busiest months
- May, April and August
- What those moves cost
- $695 median
communities in northwest Edmonton: this one and every community next to it
half ran 2.75–5.75 hours · 261 moves
May 40, April 29, August 29
half fell between $488 and $1,082 · based on 261 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does a move in Sherbrooke cost?
The median residential move across the 261 jobs in the northwest Edmonton communities around Sherbrooke is $695, total cost with tax, and half of them fell between $488 and $1,082. Rates are hourly, set by the number of movers and the size of the truck, and stated in the agreement before the crew starts.
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How long does a local move in Sherbrooke take?
The middle job in the surrounding northwest communities ran 3.75 hours on site, with half of the 261 between 2.75 and 5.75 hours, a short day rather than a full one. Three quarters of that work was graded small, which is what modest households in low-rise and detached housing tend to produce. Since the rate is hourly, the hours are what the bill is made of.
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Does the time of year change what a move in Sherbrooke costs?
No. May is the heaviest month across the northwest communities around Sherbrooke, with April and August behind it, but a date in any of them is billed at the same hourly rate. What the season changes is how much moving is going on, not what an hour costs. The size of the job is the only real lever on a Sherbrooke total.
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Why is the price range for a Sherbrooke move so wide?
Because a single median has to cover every size of home in the ring: half of the 261 nearby moves fell between $488 and $1,082, and the same hourly rate bills a one-person flat and a detached house with a basement. What separates them is hours: the volume, the flights of stairs, and how far the truck ends up from the door.
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What is included in the hourly rate in Sherbrooke?
The movers and a truck of the size the job needs, at a rate written into the agreement before anyone starts. The $695 median above is a total with tax, not a subtotal. Because the days here are short ones, 3.75 hours at the median across the surrounding northwest communities, what is not charged matters: no deposit on a local move, no fuel surcharge, and no travel time inside city limits to pad the bill.
Call Edmonton or get a quote online. Either works.
Sherbrooke neighbourhood guide for moving day
Two things on this panel change the day itself. Nothing in Sherbrooke is in a building of five storeys or more, so there is no tower lift to reserve, though a low-rise block can still have a lift of its own, and it is worth saying whether yours does. The other is the roadway. Edmonton issues an On-Street Construction and Maintenance permit for a vehicle that has to occupy the street, free at present for the reasons it covers, and asks for a minimum of 6 working days notice on low-impact work or 10 on anything heavier, with slower processing through construction season.
Most homes in Sherbrooke were built 1960 or before
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 2,525
- Homes
- 1,015
- What people live in
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- 64% single-detached houses
- 17% apartments in low-rise buildings
- 13% row houses
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 0% of homes
- One-person households
- 30%
People per household
2.5
2021 federal census
2021 federal census
- Owned or rented
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- 60% owned
- 40% rented
2021 federal census, 25% sample
- 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 Sherbrooke 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 Sherbrooke’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
George and Ivan were the movers and they were very fast and efficient. The company didnt have any hidden fees or unnecessary crap. They kept in touch through out the entire move and made what was very stressful for me very easy. Good people all around.
5 out of 5
The friendliness and the efficiency of these movers was very excellent. Surinder , Max and Ruslan did a great job with packing me up and getting me out very quickly. I would not hesitate to get them again! The boys were respectful, patient and very kind . This was a very difficult move for me.
5 out of 5
Cactus Moving did an outstanding job with our condo-to-house move! The 3-person crew (Maksym, Chint, Matthew) arrived early, took time to understand what needed to be moved, and laid down mats to protect the floors & stairs.
5 out of 5
Very professional young people. Did an exceptional job of moving heave article. Highly recommend Lovish and Chint.
5 out of 5
10/10 (more than that) recommend Cactus Moving. Lovish and Vadym went above and beyond for me with my move. We showed up to my new rental and the stairs had been removed by the contractor so no way to get in… but they handled that with ease and got everything done with care.
5 out of 5
If you want Efficient, Reliable and Affordable moving company, then I believe cactus is the place to hire. I booked them recently and they were really professional and efficient with everything from starting to delivery. Shoutout to the best movers in town.
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