Dorset Park Movers, Toronto
Cactus has completed over 80 residential moves across northeast Toronto: Dorset Park and the 43 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
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Or call (647) 525-5855 nowMovers in Dorset Park: what we know about moving here
Three kinds of home account for most of Dorset Park, and the row houses are the ones that catch people out. A tower move is a booked lift and a held loading bay; a detached move is a driveway and a staircase; a row house has neither the lift nor much room at the kerb, so it borrows a constraint from each.
Households here are on the fuller side and four homes in ten are rented, so the calendar answers to lease dates as much as to closings, and there is more in the truck than a single-occupant unit would put in it. The figures below are measured across the ring of northeast Toronto communities Dorset Park sits inside rather than this neighbourhood alone.
Moving costs around Dorset Park, by the numbers
Dorset Park's own boundary has no published band, so the figures come from a pool: 43 northeast Toronto communities, 89 residential moves, and Banbury-Don Mills, Thorncliffe Park and Bayview Village carrying the counts inside it. The middle job there billed $675 with tax in and took 3 hours on site, with half of them between $488 and $1,247 and 78% graded small. Dorset Park's 8,720 homes are 42% towers and 24% detached, so both halves of that pooled work look familiar here.
- The comparison set
- 43 neighbourhoods · 89 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 3 median
- How big those moves are
- 78% small · 21% medium
- Busiest months
- August, June and February
- What those moves cost
- $675 median
communities in northeast Toronto: this one and every community next to it
half ran 3–5.25 hours · 89 moves
August 18, June 11, February 9
half fell between $488 and $1,247 · based on 89 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does it cost to move in Dorset Park?
$675 is what the pooled record says, tax in, across 89 residential moves in the northeast Toronto communities Dorset Park sits with, and half of them fell between $488 and $1,247. Nothing there is measured inside the boundary. What is certain is the method: hourly billing, on a rate set by the crew and the truck and written into the agreement first.
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Is a Dorset Park move a tower move?
Often, but not always. 42% of the homes are in a building of five storeys or more, 24% are single-detached and another 18% are row houses. A tower job needs a lift window and a bay held with the building. A house or a row house needs somewhere for the truck and a clear path from the door. The rate is the same for both.
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Do the households here make for longer days?
They can. Homes in Dorset Park hold 2.8 people at the middle and only 24% are occupied by one person, so the loads are fuller than the pooled record's 78% small would suggest on its own. A fuller home is more trips, and since the billing is hourly, more trips is the whole of the difference in cost.
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Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Dorset Park?
Toronto publishes no page on a moving truck at the curb, only a street occupation permit for moving containers, so 311 is the place to ask about your own street. For a tower here the building's loading rules bind harder than the City's silence does, and the bay is booked with the superintendent.
Call Toronto or get a quote online. Either works.
Dorset Park neighbourhood guide for moving day
Two things here are worth acting on before the date. The first is height: a large share of Dorset Park's homes are in a building of five storeys or more, and those moves are set by the building. The elevator is booked and the loading bay held, both with notice, and neither of them is ours to arrange. The row houses have neither a lift to reserve nor, often, a driveway to back into, which makes where the truck stands the whole question. That one the City has not settled, so 311 is the check to make about your own street.
Most homes in Dorset Park were built 1961 to 1980
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 24,305
2021 federal census
- Homes
- 8,720
- What people live in
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- 42% apartments in buildings of five storeys or more
- 24% single-detached houses
- 18% row houses
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 42% of homes
- Owned or rented
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- 60% owned
- 40% rented
- One-person households
- 24%
People per household
2.8
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 Dorset Park 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 Dorset Park’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.
5 out of 5
We had an office move—20 desks, equipment, and boxes. Nikita and Alex disassembled everything, labeled it, and set it up according to the floor plan. The office manager kept everything under control. Respect!
5 out of 5
Thank you very much for this move. Thank you for this cactus and thank you Nikita And Alex! Great service!
5 out of 5
I’m very satisfied with Cactus Moving. Nikita and Alex handled the move like clockwork. Nothing was scratched, furniture was wrapped in plastic, and carpets were rolled up neatly. You can tell they know what they’re doing. I’ll definitely use them again!
5 out of 5
I was impressed by the level of service! Nikita and Alex didn’t just move everything—they also helped arrange the furniture at the new place. No rushing, just attention to detail.
5 out of 5
Moving from Toronto to Calgary felt overwhelming, but Cactus Moving made it incredibly easy. Special thanks to the office staff—the managers answered all my questions, organized everything clearly, and there were no surprises.
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Reading one that sounds like your move? Our Toronto coordinators will walk through the whole day with you before anything is booked: call the Toronto office
Nearby and similar neighbourhoods in Toronto
- Banbury-Don Mills 18 moves
- Thorncliffe Park 11 moves
- Bayview Village 10 moves
- Don Valley Village 6 moves
- North Toronto 6 moves
- Henry Farm
- Agincourt North
- Agincourt South-Malvern West
- Bayview Woods-Steeles
- Bendale South
- Bendale-Glen Andrew
- Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills
- Centennial Scarborough
- Clairlea-Birchmount
- Cliffcrest
- East L’Amoreaux
- Eglinton East
- Fenside-Parkwoods
- Flemingdon Park
- Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn
- Guildwood
- Highland Creek
- Hillcrest Village
- Ionview
- Kennedy Park
- L’Amoreaux West
- Malvern East
- Malvern West
- Milliken
- Morningside
- Morningside Heights
- O`Connor Parkview
- Parkwoods-O’Connor Hills
- Pleasant View
- Scarborough Village
- St.Andrew-Windfields
- Steeles
- Tam O’Shanter-Sullivan
- Victoria Village
- West Hill
- West Rouge
- Wexford/Maryvale
- Woburn North
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