Ottawa Moving Costs From Real Invoices
Our Ottawa branch opened this year, so this page is a short record rather than a long one. Every figure below is a job our crews finished and a customer paid.
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Most local moves in Ottawa landed between $446 and $1,067, and the middle one was $683.
The middle one billed 3.13 hours with a crew of 2, which is what turns the rate card below into that total.
A price page is only worth reading if you can see what it rests on. This one rests on a few months of finished work, and the count sits beside the price rather than in a disclaimer.
- The band those bills sat in
- $446 to $1,067
- The middle bill
- $683
- Ottawa jobs measured
- 64
the middle half of our local Ottawa jobs
as many jobs under it as over it
closed since the branch opened
64 local moves in Ottawa, February 2026 to August 2026. A local move is one whose pickup and at least one drop-off are both in Ottawa. Figures are medians and quartiles of what Cactus actually invoiced, never averages, winsorised at the 5th and 95th percentile so one unusual job cannot move the band. Every total is in Canadian dollars, total cost with tax, and covers the crew, the truck and the hours billed on the agreement; storage and packing materials are billed separately. Business and high-frequency accounts are excluded. Cactus has closed 104 moves with at least one end in Ottawa; the 64 measured here are the ones with both ends in the city, because a job that finishes in another one is a different kind of move and is priced as one. Measured August 30, 2026.
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What each size of Ottawa home has cost to move
The step from the two bedroom row to the three bedroom row is the largest on this page, and it is larger than the same step in our older branches. With seven jobs behind that top row we would expect it to settle as more close, so read it as the early shape of a pattern rather than a fixed price.
Every row here carries a smaller count than a mature branch would. That is why the count column is on the table at all: a price with its sample attached lets you judge it, and a price on its own asks you to trust it.
Read the smallest rows with their counts beside them: the 3 bedroom row rests on 7 moves against the 2 bedroom row’s 11, which is why a row can sit below the one above it in Ottawa. A median over a few dozen jobs moves with the jobs, and we publish it as measured rather than smoothing it.
| Home size | Middle move | Middle half fell between | Moves measured |
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| 1 bedroom | Middle move $713 | Middle half fell between $449 to $1,019 | Moves measured 13 |
| 2 bedroom | Middle move $897 | Middle half fell between $598 to $1,096 | Moves measured 11 |
| 3 bedroom | Middle move $1,613 | Middle half fell between $1,539 to $2,240 | Moves measured 7 |
The hourly rates behind an Ottawa move
This is the settled half of the page. A local Ottawa move is billed at the rate on your agreement for the hours the crew works, and the card below is the one published on our Ottawa branch page.
The totals above are what we invoiced, tax included. The hourly rates below are quoted before tax, and a move agreement also carries our standard operations fee, which the crew confirms with you before the truck rolls.
These are the same rates in all six Cactus cities. The card a crew in Ottawa is billed against is the card a crew in Calgary is billed against, on a weekday, a weekend or a holiday.
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2 movers + 1 truck (16 ft)
$119 - $179/h
2 HOURS MINIMUM
* One-time operations fee applies
- 1-2 Beds Apartments
- Studio Moves
- Appliance Moving
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3 movers + 1 truck (26 ft)
$179 - $219/h
2 HOURS MINIMUM
* One-time operations fee applies
- 3+ Beds Apartments
- Office Moves
- Residential Houses
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4 movers + 1 truck (26 ft)
$229 - $269/h
2 HOURS MINIMUM
* One-time operations fee applies
- Warehouse Moves
- 5+Beds Houses
- Restaurant Relocations
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What adds hours to an Ottawa move
Four practical things, each of them decided before the truck arrives.
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Confirm the building's move rules early
Lifts, docks and permitted hours vary from one building to the next and a crew that arrives outside them waits. One phone call a week ahead settles it, and we will send whatever certificate the property manager asks for.
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Clear the path, inside and out
Snow, gravel, a narrow porch or a hallway still full of boxes all slow the carry. The route from the furthest room to the truck is the one that gets walked most, so it is the one worth clearing first.
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Do the disassembly you are comfortable with
Beds, desks and shelving that are already apart load in one pass. Anything you would rather we handled, leave alone and tell the estimator so the hours are quoted with it in.
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Send a full inventory to the estimator
A surprise piano, safe or upright freezer changes the crew and the equipment, and finding out on the morning costs more than mentioning it in the quote. Nothing on the list makes the estimate worse.
When Ottawa moves, so far
August, July and March hold the most completed local moves in Ottawa so far, over a record that runs 7 months, February 2026 to August 2026.
That is 17, 13 and 9 jobs out of the 64 measured here. Two full years is the shortest run in which every month has come round twice, so read this as what we have done rather than as a season, and never as what is free to book.
Our Ottawa book opens in February 2026, so those three months are most of its history rather than a pattern. The rate is the same in every month of it.
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How much does a local move cost in Ottawa?
The middle local move billed $683 with tax in, and half of the 64 jobs we have closed inside Ottawa fell between $446 and $1,067. The total is the hourly rate on your agreement against the hours the crew actually worked.
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What does a one bedroom move cost in Ottawa?
$713 is the middle of 13 one bedroom jobs, with half of them between $449 and $1,019. It is the size we have done most often since opening here and the row we would trust first.
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Why is the three bedroom figure so much higher?
Because it rests on 7 jobs and they were larger ones: $1,613 in the middle, with half between $1,539 and $2,240. A three bedroom house is more furniture, more stairs and often a second load, and with a sample that small the figure will move as more close.
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How long does an Ottawa move take?
The middle job billed 3.13 hours, with half of them running between 2 and 5.06 hours. That is time worked at your two addresses; travel time within city limits is not charged, so the drive between them is not on the bill.
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Is this enough data to price my move from?
It is enough to tell you the shape and not enough to tell you the number. This branch opened in 2026, so ask for a written estimate built from your own address, access and inventory, and use the figures here to sanity check it.
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What is included in the totals on this page?
The crew, the truck and the hours billed on the move agreement, tax included, with no deposit and no fuel surcharge. Packing labour, materials and storage sit on separate agreements because most local moves do not use them.
More on moving in Ottawa
The branch page lists what our Ottawa crews do, the reviews page carries what customers wrote afterwards, and a move out of the province is quoted differently.
Ask for an Ottawa estimate
Send us the two addresses and what is coming with you. An Ottawa estimator replies in writing with the crew, the truck and the hours we expect.