Dovercourt Village Movers, Toronto
Cactus has completed over 140 residential moves across southwest Toronto: Dovercourt Village and the 50 communities around it. Here is what they cost, how long they run and what the City wants at the curb.
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Nothing in Dovercourt Village stands five storeys or more, so there is no tower lift to reserve and no loading bay to hold. What there is instead is low-rise apartment stock, about half of everything here, over streets of detached and semi-detached houses nearly all built in 1960 or before. Every job is a carry.
Households are small and close to a third of these homes hold one person on their own, so the loads are compact even where the stairs are not; ownership and renting are near enough level that the calendar answers to both. The figures below belong to the wider southwest Toronto communities this one sits among.
Moving costs around Dovercourt Village, by the numbers
Dovercourt Village shares a band with 50 southwest Toronto communities and the 141 residential moves recorded across them, with Fort York-Liberty Village, Annex, High Park North and Junction Area among the counted ones. Their middle job billed $744 with tax in and spent 3.5 hours on site, half of them between $542 and $1,229, and 77% graded small. Half of Dovercourt Village's own homes are low-rise flats and none are in a building of five storeys or more, so the borrowed money comes with a different kind of front door.
- The comparison set
- 50 neighbourhoods · 141 moves
- Crew hours on site
- 3.5 median
- How big those moves are
- 77% small · 21% medium
- Busiest months
- June, March and April
- What those moves cost
- $744 median
communities in southwest Toronto: this one and every community next to it
half ran 3–5.5 hours · 141 moves
June 20, March 19, April 18
half fell between $542 and $1,229 · based on 141 residential moves, total cost with tax
How much does it cost to move in Dovercourt Village?
$744 with tax in is the pooled middle, from 141 residential moves in the southwest Toronto communities Dovercourt Village belongs to, with half of them between $542 and $1,229. It is borrowed. Cactus prices a local move by the hour, on a rate set by how many movers and how large a truck the job needs, and that rate is in the agreement before the crew starts.
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What does a walk-up move look like in Dovercourt Village?
It is the standard job here. 49% of the homes are apartments in low-rise buildings and 0% are in a building of five storeys or more, so there is no service lift and no loading bay anywhere in the picture. Every box goes down a staircase and out a street door. How close the truck gets to that door is the number that changes the day.
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How long should I book for in Dovercourt Village?
The pooled middle is 3.5 hours on site, with half of those 141 jobs finishing inside 5.5 hours. Households here are small, 2.3 people at the middle and 30% of homes holding one person, so the loads themselves are modest. The stairs are what stretch the day, and taking large furniture apart in advance is the reliable way to shorten it.
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Do I need a permit to park a moving truck in Dovercourt Village?
The City has published nothing that covers a moving truck at the curb; the street occupation permit it does publish names moving containers. Ask 311 about your block. On these narrow older streets, with 5,310 homes packed close together, where the truck stands is worth confirming rather than discovering on the morning.
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Dovercourt Village neighbourhood guide for moving day
An elevator booking is not usually part of a Dovercourt Village move, because no building here reaches five storeys. That sounds like a simplification and is really a substitution. What replaces it is stairs in the low-rise apartment stock that makes up about half of the neighbourhood, and a walk from the curb for the houses. Old frames narrow the landings further, so anything wide is worth measuring before the date rather than on it. And the curb has no published answer in Toronto: the City's street occupation permit is written for containers, not trucks, so ask 311 what your own street expects.
Most homes in Dovercourt Village were built 1960 or before
2021 federal census, 25% sample · the band holding the middle home
- People
- 12,380
2021 federal census
- Homes
- 5,310
- What people live in
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- 49% apartments in low-rise buildings
- 16% single-detached houses
- 16% semi-detached houses
- In a building of five storeys or more
- 0% of homes
- Owned or rented
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- 55% owned
- 45% rented
- One-person households
- 30%
People per household
2.3
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 Dovercourt Village 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 Dovercourt Village’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.
5 out of 5
(Translated by Google) I had a great experience with this company! I was very pleased with the prices and quality of work, definitely 5 stars, I recommend them to everyone!! (Original) Имел великолепный опыт с этой компанией!
5 out of 5
The best service is friendly and hard-working super fast thank you
5 out of 5
Great team! Nick and Alex carefully wrapped heavy furniture and moved everything without a scratch. Very happy!
5 out of 5
I recently had the pleasure of working with Alexey, Alexey, and Alexander for my move, and I couldn't be more grateful. They handled an extremely challenging job with great skill and professionalism.
5 out of 5
This is my fourth time using Cactus Moving. And as always, everything went smoothly and quickly. In a galaxy far, far away, there were the coolest movers. Thank you, Nikita and Alex.
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