Bayview Woods-Steeles Movers, Toronto
Cactus has completed over 90 residential moves across northeast Toronto: Bayview Woods-Steeles and the 45 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
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Bayview Woods-Steeles leans towards towers without committing to them: close to two homes in five are in a building of five storeys or more, a third are single-detached, and low-rise apartments take much of what is left. It is also a compact community, a couple of kilometres across and holding fewer than five thousand homes, so the three kinds of front door sit within a short distance of one another rather than in separate districts. Which of the three you are in decides the day: a lobby, an elevator window and a bay held by the building; a driveway and a front staircase; or a walk-up with a street door and nothing to reserve.
The band of figures directly below is drawn from the ring of northeast Toronto communities this one belongs to rather than from Bayview Woods-Steeles alone.
Moving costs around Bayview Woods-Steeles, by the numbers
Bayview Woods-Steeles borrows its band from the 45 northeast Toronto communities around it, which have logged 92 completed residential moves between them. Banbury-Don Mills, Thorncliffe Park and Bayview Village supply most of that count. The middle job billed $677 with tax in and spent 3 hours on site, with the middle half from $493 to $1,240 and from 3 to 5.25 hours, and 76% of the work graded small. Ninety-two jobs across 45 boundaries is a range, not a quote for one street.
- The comparison set
- 45 neighbourhoods · 92 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 3 median
- How big those moves are
- 76% small · 23% medium
- Busiest months
- August, June and March
- What those moves cost
- $677 median
communities in northeast Toronto: this one and every community next to it
half ran 3–5.25 hours · 92 moves
August 18, June 12, March 10
half fell between $493 and $1,240 · based on 92 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does it cost to move in Bayview Woods-Steeles?
$677 is the middle bill across the 92 residential moves logged in the northeast Toronto communities around Bayview Woods-Steeles, tax in, with half of them between $493 and $1,240. None of it is measured inside this boundary. The rate is hourly, set by how many movers and how large a truck the job needs, and it goes into the agreement before the crew starts.
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Is a Bayview Woods-Steeles move a house move or an apartment move?
Both, in close to equal measure. 39% of the homes here are in a building of five storeys or more and 33% are single-detached, with another 12% in low-rise blocks. The two run to different clocks: a tower day is a booked lift and a held bay, a house day is stairs and a driveway. The billing is identical, so the difference lands entirely in the hours.
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How long should I book a crew for in Bayview Woods-Steeles?
The middle job nearby ran 3 hours on site and half of them finished inside 5.25 hours, so a morning covers a small load and an afternoon is the sensible hedge. Households here run to 2.5 people at the middle and only 24% of homes hold one person, so the load is more often a family's than a single person's, and that is what pushes a day past the middle.
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Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Bayview Woods-Steeles?
There is no published rule to follow. Toronto's street occupation permit names moving containers and not moving trucks, so the curb is left unaddressed either way. Call 311 about your own address before the date. On the detached streets here, a driveway usually settles the question without anyone needing to ask.
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Bayview Woods-Steeles neighbourhood guide for moving day
Three figures here do real work on the day. The share of homes in a building of five storeys or more decides whether you are reserving an elevator and a bay with the building. The detached third decides whether you are instead finding the truck a legal spot outside. And the low-rise apartments in between are the version with a staircase and no reservation attached, where everything is carried rather than wheeled into a lift. On that middle case the City has never published a rule for a moving truck standing at a residential curb, so what your own street requires is a 311 question.
Most homes in Bayview Woods-Steeles were built 1961 to 1980
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 12,085
2021 federal census
- Homes
- 4,755
- What people live in
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- 39% apartments in buildings of five storeys or more
- 33% single-detached houses
- 12% apartments in low-rise buildings
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 39% of homes
- Owned or rented
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- 56% owned
- 44% rented
- One-person households
- 24%
People per household
2.5
2021 federal census, 25% sample
2021 federal census, 25% sample
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.
Not sure what the City wants on your street before a truck parks on it? We move in Bayview Woods-Steeles every week and we will tell you who to ask: talk to our Toronto 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 Bayview Woods-Steeles’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.
5 out of 5
Alex and Nico were great - quick, efficient and friendly. Would definitely recommend !!
5 out of 5
I want to give a big shout-out to Cactus Moving and the amazing team of Aleksei and Valentin who helped me with my recent move. From the moment they arrived, they were polite and professional - they even asked if it was okay to keep their shoes on before entering.
5 out of 5
We had a great experience with Alex and Niko! We would recommend them anytime!
5 out of 5
Niko, Alex and Max were relentless in their effort to get us moved and settled. Thank you!!
5 out of 5
Yegor and Alex were amazing at moving us! They were quick, clean, and made no mess :) We really recommend 👍🏻
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- Thorncliffe Park 11 moves
- Bayview Village 10 moves
- Don Valley Village 6 moves
- North Toronto 6 moves
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