WilloughbyBritish Columbia

Willoughby is the Township of Langley's growth community south of Highway 1, bordered by Surrey on the west. The Township's Neighbourhoods layer names Yorkson, Routley, Latimer, Carvolth, Jericho, Smith, Williams and three Gordon areas inside it. Yorkson is the eastern neighbourhood and holds Willoughby Town Centre at 208 Street and 80 Avenue. Routley sits at 196 to 200 Street and 68 to 74 Avenue. Latimer covers west-central Willoughby, and Carvolth is the northwest corner around Carvolth Exchange.

The Willoughby Community Plan (Bylaw 3800, adopted 1998) governs the build-out. Council adopted its 2026 update on June 15, 2026, with a Willoughby Transit Corridor Plan and a Gordon Neighbourhood Plan. The Township reports a 2026 population near 55,000 and about 53% of the plan's land capacity built.

The Surrey-Langley SkyTrain does not enter Willoughby. The line runs 16 km along Fraser Highway, its project site gives late 2029 as the in-service date, and Willowbrook Station sits south of the boundary. Willoughby's own transit plan is the 200 Street bus corridor, which the community plan ties to a bus rapid transit line TransLink proposes.

For schools, this is School District 35 (Langley). R.E. Mountain Secondary, at 7633 202A Street in a building opened in 2019, serves Willoughby today. The International Baccalaureate is a District program open beyond the catchment. In September 2027 the Willoughby Slope splits between two secondaries, and the district's May 1, 2026 letter lists the chain each elementary school follows.

School District 35 (Langley). R.E. Mountain Secondary, at 7633 202A Street in a building opened in 2019, serves Willoughby today. The International Baccalaureate is a District program that accepts students from beyond the R.E. Mountain catchment.

From September 2027 the Willoughby Slope splits between two secondaries, and School District 35 has already published which chain every elementary follows. Willoughby Elementary goes to Yorkson Creek Middle, then Emery Dosdall Secondary. Lynn Fripps and Richard Bulpitt both go to stɑtl̓əw̓ Middle, then Emery Dosdall. Donna Gabriel Robins splits down the middle: the east side to stɑtl̓əw̓ Middle and Emery Dosdall, the west side to Peter Ewart Middle and R.E. Mountain. Josette Dandurand feeds Yorkson Creek Middle and R.E. Mountain, while Langley Meadows and R.C. Garnett Demonstration go through Peter Ewart Middle to R.E. Mountain.

Two details in that decision matter to a family part-way through school. A student entering Grade 12 at R.E. Mountain in September 2027 stays there to graduate, but younger siblings are not grandfathered with them, and the district says it will look at hardship cases individually through the existing cross-boundary process. The other is that Emery Dosdall is to get its own Pre-IB programme in Grades 9 and 10, which gives eastern Willoughby a second route into the stream rather than one. Both come from the district letter of May 1, 2026 at sd35.bc.ca, and the school locator remains the thing to check against a specific address.

Willoughby Town Centre, at 208 Street and 80 Avenue, is the commercial anchor. Metro Vancouver designates it an Urban Centre, and the Willoughby Community Plan puts its highest densities around it and along 200 and 208 Streets.

Today: transit means a bus to Carvolth Exchange, at 202 Street and 86 Avenue inside Willoughby, and then the TransLink 555 Port Mann Express to Lougheed Station, a median 21 minutes on the weekday schedule. Routes 388, 501, 509, 562 and 595 also stop at Carvolth.

Future: the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain runs along Fraser Highway and its project site gives late 2029 as the in-service date. Willowbrook Station sits about 700 metres south of the Township's Willoughby boundary. Willoughby's own corridor is 200 Street, where the community plan ties a one-kilometre growth corridor to a proposed bus rapid transit line.