Why is Alderwood's own median so far above the surrounding communities?

Because of what is being moved, not what is being charged. 61% of the homes here are single-detached and only 8% sit in a building of five storeys or more, so a job in Alderwood is usually a whole house. Across the 136 moves in the southwest Toronto communities nearby the middle bill is $722; inside this boundary it is $1,551 on 6 priced jobs. The hourly rate behind both is the same one.

How long does a move in Alderwood take?

The middle of the eight jobs recorded inside this boundary ran 4.63 hours on site, with half of them between 2.5 and 5.13 hours and a crew of two at the midpoint. That is longer than the 3.25-hour middle across the surrounding southwest Toronto record, which is what a neighbourhood of houses built in 1960 or before tends to produce: narrow stairs, and a carry out to the street.

What does a two-bedroom move cost around Alderwood?

$1,050 is the middle, drawn from 24 two-bedroom moves across the southwest Toronto communities beside Alderwood rather than from inside it, with half of them between $655 and $1,453. Two movers and one truck, 5.75 hours on site at the middle. Alderwood has fewer than five of its own at that size, which is why the card borrows: a band resting on four jobs would not be worth printing.

Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Alderwood?

The City does not publish an answer. Toronto's street occupation permit names moving containers and not moving trucks, so nothing official covers a truck at the curb outside a house. Ring 311 about your own street. In Alderwood, where more than three homes in five are detached, the driveway is often enough on its own and the question never comes up.

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Movers in Alderwood: what we know about moving here

Alderwood is a house neighbourhood, and almost nothing about a move here is decided by a building. Three homes in five are single-detached, with semis and low-rise apartments behind them and only a small remainder in anything of five storeys or more; more than three quarters are owned rather than rented. For most of that stock there is no lift to reserve, no loading bay to book and no superintendent to clear a window with: just a front staircase, a driveway, and whatever the street will allow the truck.

Our own record here says the same thing in hours. 100% of the Alderwood jobs so far have been graded small, yet the middle one ran 4.63 hours on site against 3.25 across the surrounding southwest Toronto communities, and the middle price came to $1,551 against $722. A small load out of an owned house with stairs is a longer day than a small load out of an apartment, and an hourly bill follows the hours rather than the box count.

Alderwood neighbourhood guide for moving day

Almost nothing on this panel points indoors. A neighbourhood this heavily detached and this heavily owner-occupied puts the access questions on you rather than on a building: how many steps at the front, how far up the drive the truck can get, and whether the basement and the garage are coming too. Households here run family-sized rather than single, which is the other half of why the hours are long. On the curb, Toronto publishes nothing that settles whether a moving truck outside a house needs a permit. The street occupation permit it does publish covers containers, so 311 is where to check your own address.

Most homes in Alderwood were built 1960 or before

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

People: 12,595

2021 federal census

Homes: 4,785
What people live in: 61% single-detached houses
12% semi-detached houses
11% apartments in low-rise buildings
In a building of five storeys or more: 8% of homes
Owned or rented: 77% owned
23% rented
One-person households: 24%

2021 federal census, 25% sample

Booking the curb

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City of Toronto

Toronto publishes no page that covers a moving truck at the curb, and its Street Occupation Permit names moving containers only. Confirm with 311 whether your street needs a permit.

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Alderwood moving costs, by the numbers

At least 8 residential moves have had one end inside Alderwood's own boundary since 2025, and 5 of those fell in the last twelve months. Six carried a price, which is the sample behind the $1,551 median and the very wide $776 to $3,852 middle half. Read that as a range to plan around rather than a figure to expect. The hours are the firmer half of this panel: 4.63 in the middle across all 8, with half of them running between 2.5 and 5.13, and a crew of 2 at the median.

What a local move cost: $1,551 median
Residential moves in Alderwood: at least 8
In the last 12 months: 5
Crew hours on site: 4.63 median
Crew size: 2 movers median

Alderwood’s own community boundary about 2.8 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move this size costs in Southwest Toronto

Sizes of move cut out of the completed residential jobs in Southwest Toronto, the communities beside this one. Alderwood has fewer than five of its own at each size, and a band resting on fewer than five moves is not published here at any scope.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southwest Toronto

$716
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $522 and $1,111 · 35 moves

3.5 hours on site half ran 3–5.25 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A one-bedroom apartment or condo is not what Alderwood mostly produces, so this card is the southwest Toronto figure rather than a local one: 35 moves of that size, a $716 middle bill and 3.5 hours on site, with half of them between 3 and 5.25 hours. Two movers and one truck cover it. The load is a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen's worth of boxes, and what moves a day inside that band is the stairs and how close the truck can sit to the door.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 35 moves.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southwest Toronto

$1,050
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $655 and $1,453 · 24 moves

5.75 hours on site half ran 4.06–6 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Two bedrooms is where a morning turns into a day. Across the southwest Toronto communities beside Alderwood, 24 moves of that size ran 5.75 hours on site at the middle, half of them between 4.06 and 6 hours, still on two movers and one truck. Half billed between $655 and $1,453 around a $1,050 middle. In Alderwood that size is usually half of a house rather than a suite, so the carry is a staircase and a front path instead of a lift.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 24 moves.

A four-bedroom-plus move in Southwest Toronto

$1,162
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $822 and $1,420 · 6 moves

5.75 hours on site half ran 3.63–6.56 hours
2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Four bedrooms and up is the thinnest card here: six moves of that size across the southwest Toronto communities around Alderwood, a $1,162 middle, half of them between $822 and $1,420. Two movers, one truck, 5.75 hours at the middle with half running from 3.63 to 6.56. Six jobs is a direction rather than a quote. With 61% of Alderwood's homes single-detached, this is the size the neighbourhood actually holds, and packing done in advance is what keeps the day inside that range.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 6 moves.

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How much does it cost to move in Alderwood?

Alderwood's own record is short: 6 priced jobs, a $1,551 middle bill and a middle half running from $776 to $3,852. That band is wide because six house moves of six different sizes are inside it. The southwest Toronto communities around Alderwood give a steadier reading, $722 in the middle across 136 moves, and what a given address costs sits somewhere between the two.

Why is Alderwood's own median so far above the surrounding communities?

Because of what is being moved, not what is being charged. 61% of the homes here are single-detached and only 8% sit in a building of five storeys or more, so a job in Alderwood is usually a whole house. Across the 136 moves in the southwest Toronto communities nearby the middle bill is $722; inside this boundary it is $1,551 on 6 priced jobs. The hourly rate behind both is the same one.
How long does a move in Alderwood take?

The middle of the eight jobs recorded inside this boundary ran 4.63 hours on site, with half of them between 2.5 and 5.13 hours and a crew of two at the midpoint. That is longer than the 3.25-hour middle across the surrounding southwest Toronto record, which is what a neighbourhood of houses built in 1960 or before tends to produce: narrow stairs, and a carry out to the street.
What does a two-bedroom move cost around Alderwood?

$1,050 is the middle, drawn from 24 two-bedroom moves across the southwest Toronto communities beside Alderwood rather than from inside it, with half of them between $655 and $1,453. Two movers and one truck, 5.75 hours on site at the middle. Alderwood has fewer than five of its own at that size, which is why the card borrows: a band resting on four jobs would not be worth printing.
Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Alderwood?

The City does not publish an answer. Toronto's street occupation permit names moving containers and not moving trucks, so nothing official covers a truck at the curb outside a house. Ring 311 about your own street. In Alderwood, where more than three homes in five are detached, the driveway is often enough on its own and the question never comes up.

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February 2026
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Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Toronto

Alderwood's own eight jobs sit inside a set of 50 southwest Toronto communities carrying 136 residential moves between them, among them Fort York-Liberty Village, Annex, High Park North and Junction Area. That wider set runs shorter and cheaper: 3.25 hours in the middle against 4.63 here, and a $722 middle bill against $1,551. Eight jobs is a thin base and only 6 of them carry a price, so the gap says more about which houses happened to move than about Alderwood being a dearer address.

Measure	Alderwood	Southwest Toronto
Median local move	$1,551	$722
Median crew hours on site half of Alderwood’s ran 2.5–5.13 hours	4.63 hrs	3.25 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job	100%	76%
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 50 communities, this one and everything next to it	at least 8	136

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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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