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University of Toronto Movers, Toronto

Cactus has completed at least 5 residential moves inside University of Toronto’s own community boundary. Here is what they cost, how long they ran and what the City wants at the curb.

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Movers in University of Toronto: what we know about moving here

University of Toronto is a small, rented, apartment-heavy boundary, and those three things together describe most of the work. Homes here are flats rather than houses, some in low-rise buildings and some in towers. Households are small and a clear majority of them rent, so a move is usually one person's worth of furniture leaving a building on a lease date. Older stock is the complication: the landings and doorways are tighter than a new build's, and tighter landings are measured in hours.

At least 5 residential moves are attributed to this boundary. The middle one ran 3 hours on site with a crew of 2 and came to $651 with tax included, and the middle half of them spanned $484 to $1,098. That is a wide gap on a handful of jobs, which is why the wider southwest Toronto figures are worth reading beside them.

University of Toronto neighbourhood guide for moving day

The building rather than the street usually governs a day in University of Toronto: a lift booking where a home is in a tower, a staircase where it is in a low-rise, and roughly a third of the homes here are the first kind. Housing built in 1960 or before adds the practical part, since older buildings tend to have the tighter turns at the landings and the narrower doorways, both worth measuring before the date. On the street itself, Toronto has never published a rule covering a moving truck at a residential curb, and 311 answers that for a given address.

Most homes in University of Toronto were built 1960 or before

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

People
6,435

2021 federal census

Homes
3,240

People per household

2.0

2021 federal census, 25% sample

What people live in
  • 41% apartments in low-rise buildings
  • 32% apartments in buildings of five storeys or more
  • 9% row houses
In a building of five storeys or more
32% of homes
Owned or rented
  • 39% owned
  • 61% rented
One-person households
43%

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 University of Toronto every week and we will tell you who to ask: talk to our Toronto team

University of Toronto moving costs, by the numbers

At least five residential moves sit against this boundary since 2025: jobs with either the pickup or the delivery address inside University of Toronto. All five carry a local total, and $651 is the middle one with tax counted in, with the quartiles at $484 and $1,098. That is a wide gap on a small number of jobs, and the hours line is flat at 3 for the same reason: a handful of days that happened to run to similar lengths. Read the figures as real jobs rather than as a rate, and read the ring below beside them.

What a local move cost
$651 median

half fell between $484 and $1,098 · based on 5 residential moves, total cost with tax

Residential moves in University of Toronto
at least 5

attributed to the neighbourhood’s own boundary since 2025

Crew hours on site
3 median

half of these moves ran 3–3 hours · 5 moves

Crew size
2 movers median

half of these moves used 2–2 · 5 moves

Simplified outline of the official University of Toronto community boundary in Toronto, with a dot marking its centre.
University of Toronto’s own community boundary about 1.7 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. University of Toronto 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 Southwest Toronto: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

A one-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southwest Toronto

$738
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $547 and $1,117 · 42 moves

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

Fewer than five one-bedroom jobs sit inside this boundary, so the card is cut from the 42 recorded at that size across Southwest Toronto. Two movers, one truck, 3.63 hours on site at the middle with half between 3 and 5, and a middle bill of $738 with half falling between $547 and $1,117. In a neighbourhood where 43% of households are one person, this is the size most local work resembles. Older landings and doorways are what push a job of it toward the upper end.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 42 moves.

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

A two-bedroom apartment or condo move in Southwest Toronto

$1,072
Median, total cost with tax

half fell between $693 and $1,514 · 26 moves

  • 5.63 hours on site half ran 4.31–6 hours
  • 2 movers · 1 truck the crew and trucks actually dispatched, median

A second bedroom adds roughly two hours across Southwest Toronto: 5.63 hours on site at the middle, with half of the 26 at that size between 4.31 and 6 hours, on two movers and one truck. The middle bill was $1,072 and half fell between $693 and $1,514. The University of Toronto boundary has fewer than five of its own that size. With 41% of homes in low-rise buildings, a second bedroom here often means a second flight of stairs as well.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 26 moves.

Clay-style illustration of a four-bedroom-plus move in Southwest Toronto: the crew, the truck and the boxes a job this size typically takes.

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

This card rests on only 6 jobs, all of them elsewhere in Southwest Toronto, because a four-bedroom-plus move is rare inside this boundary. Two movers, one truck, a middle day of 5.75 hours on site with half of the six between 3.63 and 6.56 hours, and a middle bill of $1,162 with half between $822 and $1,420. Six jobs is a direction rather than a rate. At that size the packing and the staircase decide the day far more than the bedroom count does.

Fewer than five moves of this size here, so these figures come from Southwest Toronto, across 6 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 the University of Toronto neighbourhood?

$651 is the middle of the 5 residential moves recorded inside the boundary, with half of them between $484 and $1,098. That is a wide gap on a handful of jobs, so the $760 middle across the 156 moves in the 53 southwest Toronto communities around it is the steadier reference. The rate is hourly either way.

  • What does a one-bedroom move cost near the University of Toronto?

    $738 across Southwest Toronto, with half of the 42 at that size between $547 and $1,117, on two movers, one truck and 3.63 hours on site. This boundary has fewer than five one-bedroom jobs of its own. Given that 43% of households here are one person, it is the size most moves here look like.

  • What does a two-bedroom move cost near the University of Toronto?

    $1,072 in the middle across Southwest Toronto, with half of the 26 at that size between $693 and $1,514 and 5.63 hours on site at the midpoint. That is two movers and one truck. The band is wide because a two-bedroom flat in a low-rise and one in a tower are different routes out at the same hourly rate.

  • How long does a local move around the University of Toronto take?

    3 hours is the middle of the 5 moves attributed to this boundary, and the middle half of them ran 3 hours too. That is flat because the sample is small rather than because the work never varies. Across the surrounding southwest Toronto communities the middle day was 3.38 hours, with half between 3 and 5.5.

  • Is it cheaper to move at a certain time of year near the University of Toronto?

    No. An hour costs the same in every month. June, April and March carry the most of the 156 moves recorded across the surrounding communities, which is about when work gathers rather than about price. In a rented, apartment-heavy area the lease calendar moves volume, not the rate.

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

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 University of Toronto’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

    Alex and Nico were great - quick, efficient and friendly. Would definitely recommend !!

    Phillip Smalley

    July 2025

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  • 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.

    Валентин Зайко

    June 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    We had a great experience with Alex and Niko! We would recommend them anytime!

    Brennen Matthews

    June 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    Niko, Alex and Max were relentless in their effort to get us moved and settled. Thank you!!

    Evan S

    June 2025

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  • 5 out of 5

    Yegor and Alex were amazing at moving us! They were quick, clean, and made no mess :) We really recommend 👍🏻

    Karen Maktabi

    June 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

Five local jobs is a thin base, so the wider set is worth reading beside them: 53 southwest Toronto communities carrying 156 moves, a middle bill of $760 with tax in and a middle day of 3.38 hours, with half the work between $570 and $1,279. Fort York-Liberty Village accounts for 10 of those, Annex and High Park North 9 each, then Alderwood, Etobicoke City Centre and Junction Area at 8 apiece. 79% graded small, 18% medium and 3% large. The University of Toronto figures above sit inside that range rather than apart from it.

Measure University of Toronto Southwest Toronto
Median local move $651 $760
Median crew hours on site half of University of Toronto’s ran 3–3 hours 3 hrs 3.38 hrs
Completed residential moves the comparison set is 53 communities, this one and everything next to it at least 5 156

In University of Toronto 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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