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Thorncliffe Park Movers, Toronto

Cactus has completed at least 11 residential moves inside Thorncliffe Park’s own community boundary, 6 of them in the last twelve months. Here is what they cost, how long they ran and what the City wants at the curb.

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Movers in Thorncliffe Park: what we know about moving here

Thorncliffe Park is a neighbourhood of apartment towers and of tenants, and almost nothing here is anything else. A move begins at a lobby rather than a driveway, the service elevator and the loading area belong to the building rather than to the crew, and the day is set by a lease rather than by a closing. Households here are family-sized rather than single-occupant, so the load behind that lobby door is often fuller than a tower address suggests.

Our own record matches the shape of the place with real consistency. At least 11 residential moves are attributed to this boundary, 6 of them in the last twelve months, and 82% were graded small. The middle job took 3 hours on site with a crew of 2 and came to $539 with tax included. The two cards further down take the same question by the size of the home instead.

Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood guide for moving day

Almost every home in Thorncliffe Park sits in a building of five storeys or more. That puts the two bookings that decide a moving day, the service lift and the loading area, with the building rather than with us. Make them the first call after the date is set; a crew waiting on a shared lift is a crew on the clock. Tenancy rather than ownership is the other half of the panel, so most dates here follow a lease rather than a closing. On the street, the City has published no rule covering a moving truck outside a residential building. What it does publish is a permit written for containers, and 311 will say what applies at your address.

Most homes in Thorncliffe Park were built 1961 to 1980

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

People
20,400

2021 federal census

Homes
7,065

People per household

2.9

2021 federal census, 25% sample

What people live in
  • 93% apartments in buildings of five storeys or more
  • 5% apartments in low-rise buildings
In a building of five storeys or more
93% of homes
Owned or rented
  • 14% owned
  • 86% rented
One-person households
28%

2021 federal census, 25% sample

Booking the curb

Check with the City before the day

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.

Not sure what the City wants on your street before a truck parks on it? We move in Thorncliffe Park every week and we will tell you who to ask: talk to our Toronto team

Thorncliffe Park moving costs, by the numbers

Everything in that band comes from household jobs with either a collection or a delivery address inside the Thorncliffe Park boundary. At least 11 qualify from 2025 onward, a floor rather than a total, while the 6 from the past year are counted exactly. Ten of those carry a price, and they cluster tightly: $487 to $664 around a $539 median. With 11 jobs behind a 3 to 3 hour interquartile range and 82% of them graded small, this is a page whose figures describe one kind of work very consistently rather than a wide mix loosely.

What a local move cost
$539 median

half fell between $487 and $664 · based on 10 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in Thorncliffe Park
at least 11

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2025

In the last 12 months
6

an exact count, not a floor

Crew hours on site
3 median

half of these moves ran 3–3 hours · 11 moves

Crew size
2 movers median

half of these moves used 2–2 · 11 moves

Simplified outline of the official Thorncliffe Park community boundary in Toronto, with a dot marking its centre.
Thorncliffe Park’s own community boundary about 2.4 km across the community outline as the City publishes it

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What a move this size costs in Northeast Toronto

Sizes of move cut out of the completed residential jobs in Northeast Toronto, the communities beside this one. Thorncliffe Park 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.

Clay-style illustration of a one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northeast Toronto: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northeast Toronto

$852
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $519 and $1,190 · 21 moves

  • 5 hours on site half ran 3–6 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

Fewer than five one-bedroom jobs sit inside Thorncliffe Park, so this card widens to the 21 recorded at that size across Northeast Toronto. Two movers, one truck, a middle day of 5 hours on site with half running between 3 and 6, and a middle bill of $852 with half between $519 and $1,190. That is a wide band on 21 jobs, and it runs above what a local one-bedroom has cost here. Read it as the size across a large area rather than as a Thorncliffe Park rate.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northeast Toronto, across 21 moves.

Clay-style illustration of a two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northeast Toronto: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Northeast Toronto

$1,341
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $606 and $1,447 · 12 moves

  • 4.38 hours on site half ran 3–6.75 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

The two-bedroom card is drawn from only 12 jobs across Northeast Toronto, which is why it reads oddly against the one above: a middle day of 4.38 hours, shorter than the one-bedroom card's, on a middle bill of $1,341. Half of the 12 ran between 3 and 6.75 hours and cost between $606 and $1,447. Two movers and one truck. On a sample that small the spread is the honest figure and the midpoint is the noisy one.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Northeast Toronto, across 12 moves.

One of these look like your move? Where in its band you land comes down to the date, the elevator booking and how close the truck can park. Price your own move

How much does it cost to move in Thorncliffe Park?

$539 is the middle of the 10 priced jobs recorded inside the boundary, with half of them between $487 and $664. That is well under the $706 middle across the 81 moves in the 46 northeast Toronto communities around it. The rate is hourly and identical either way; what differs is how long a compact tower job takes.

  • How long does a local move in Thorncliffe Park take?

    3 hours, and the middle half of the 11 moves attributed to this boundary ran 3 hours as well, which is as tight as a band gets. 82% of them graded small. A held lift is what keeps a job there; a shared one is the single thing most likely to push it past three hours.

  • What does a one-bedroom move cost near Thorncliffe Park?

    $852 is the middle across Northeast Toronto, with half of the 21 at that size between $519 and $1,190 and 5 hours on site at the midpoint. Thorncliffe Park has fewer than five of its own at that size. That figure covers a much wider area than this boundary, and the local jobs here have run shorter and cheaper.

  • What do I need to arrange with my building in Thorncliffe Park?

    The service elevator, the loading area and the hours a move may run, all with property management. 93% of homes here are in a building of five storeys or more and 86% are rented, so this applies to nearly every address. Make it the first call after the date is fixed.

  • Is it cheaper to move at a certain time of year in Thorncliffe Park?

    No. The hourly rate holds across the calendar. August, February and June carry the most of the 81 moves recorded across the surrounding communities, which is a statement about when work gathers rather than about price. What moves your own figure is the load and the lift booking.

Ask Toronto in person, or price the move yourself in a minute.

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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 Thorncliffe Park’s own boundary. Quoted verbatim from the public listing and trimmed at a sentence.

143 five-star reviews with a written comment on the Toronto and Mississauga listings since November 2024

  • 5 out of 5

    Thank you so much to Alex and Miko for making a usually stressful situation, incredible easy, fast, and enjoyable! They were incredibly punctual and even gave me a cactus after the move! Definitely will hire again!!!!

    Ariane Meredith

    moved from Mount Pleasant East to Thorncliffe Park, June 2025 · 1 bedroom

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  • 5 out of 5

    Niko and Alex did a great job with the move from Toronto to kitchener

    Raghuvir Singh

    August 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    I deal with a lot of movers and see them do their job. Today I saw Alex,Nicole and Andrei of Cactus Moving do a pretty heavy duty move for one of my clients. I must say they did the move so smoothly and with a smile.

    Leo Robin

    August 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    I'm in the midst of a renovation job and needed to empty my house after 25 years of living there. After 3 weeks of purging and packing, my partner went on a quest to find a mover. One of the self-storage facilities that she spoke to recommended Cactus.

    Bruce Pinn

    August 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    Thank you so much Alex.. amazing work.. on time and all done.. see you next .. GBU

    Manpreet Singh

    August 2025

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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

Thorncliffe Park's own figures sit well under the ring's. The 46 northeast Toronto communities around it carry 81 moves between them, with a middle bill of $706 and a middle day of 3 hours, and a middle half spread from $494 to $1,257. Banbury-Don Mills holds 18 of those, Bayview Village 10, then Don Valley Village and North Toronto at 6 each, with Henry Farm and L’Amoreaux West too small to show a count. The 10 priced jobs inside this boundary came to $539 in the middle, between $487 and $664.

Measure Thorncliffe Park Northeast Toronto
Median local move $539 $706
Median crew hours on site half of Thorncliffe Park’s ran 3–3 hours 3 hrs 3 hrs
Graded a small move Cactus’s own grading on the job 82% 78%
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 46 communities, this one and everything next to it at least 11 81

In Thorncliffe Park or any of the neighbours beside it, the crew and the hourly rate are the same. Tell us the address

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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