| Measure | August 2026, as read on 5 September |
|---|---|
| Walnut Grove | Alex Hope 8.3, Gordon Greenwood 7.3, West Langley 7.0, Topham 6.9; Walnut Grove Secondary 7.6 (41st of 252 in BC); 3.6 months of supply |
| Willoughby | Willoughby Elementary 6.8; R.E. Mountain 6.0; 5.2 months; 193 four-bedroom-plus houses sold, median $1,505,000 |
| Murrayville | 48 four-bedroom-plus houses sold, median $1,558,000; 4.1 months |
| Brookswood | 85 four-bedroom-plus houses sold, median $1,632,000; 7.4 months; Brookswood Secondary 6.2 |
| Any address | Langley Fundamental 7.8 (choice programme, 36th in BC) |
Langley buyers bought rooms this year: 632 houses with four or more bedrooms sold, and four-bedroom townhomes were up 34% while two-bedroom townhomes fell 23%. The neighbourhood with the best school scores is also the one whose houses moved fastest, closest to ask, and fell least in price. Ratings describe test results, not teaching, and the pairing is an observation across eleven neighbourhoods, not proof; but the market and the Fraser Institute table point the same way.
A family that wants a catchment chosen in advance starts in Walnut Grove and pays for it in competition rather than dollars per square foot. A family that wants a four-bedroom house at the Langley median looks at Willoughby ($1,505,000) or Langley City ($1,302,000); one that wants land under the house looks at Brookswood, where the shelf is deeper.
Every list of the best Langley neighbourhoods for families is someone’s opinion dressed as a ranking. This one is built on three things that can be measured: what families bought this year (bedroom counts, by neighbourhood), what the schools score (the Fraser Institute’s report cards, the only published ranking of BC schools), and how each neighbourhood’s house market behaves (months of supply, days, sold at % of ask). What cannot be measured from the board’s data is what a street feels like at four o’clock on a Saturday, and for that you walk it.
In the twelve months to August 2026 Langley buyers bought bedrooms. 632 houses with four or more bedrooms sold at a median $1,468,000, against 191 three-bedroom houses at $1,190,000. Four-bedroom-plus townhomes sold 240, up 34%, at a median $923,000, while two-bedroom townhomes fell 23%; three-bedroom condos rose 26% while one-bedrooms fell 23%. And the market priced rooms cheaper than floor area: a four-bedroom townhome at $499 a square foot against $535 for a two-bedroom, a four-bedroom house at $502 against $638 for a three-bedroom. The family home in Langley this year was a four-bedroom townhome or a four-bedroom house, and the neighbourhoods below are ranked by how many of those sold.
| Neighbourhood | Sold | Median sale | $ per sq ft | House months of supply | Median days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willoughby | 193 | $1,505,000 | $469 | 5.2 | 28 |
| Walnut Grove | 100 | $1,421,000 | $543 | 3.6 | 21 |
| Brookswood | 85 | $1,632,000 | $527 | 7.4 | 29 |
| Aldergrove | 72 | $1,114,000 | $471 | 6.2 | 20 |
| Langley City | 68 | $1,302,000 | $503 | 7.3 | 28 |
| Murrayville | 48 | $1,558,000 | $555 | 4.1 | 26 |
| Fort Langley | 30 | $2,178,000 | $638 | 5.5 | 51 |
| Salmon River | 21 | $2,143,000 | $534 | 7.9 | 41 |
| All Langley | 632 | $1,468,000 | $502 | 6.0 | 23 |
| Neighbourhood | 2 bedrooms | 3 bedrooms | 4 or more |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willoughby | $691,000 (104) | $828,000 (244) | $931,000 (175) |
| Walnut Grove | $813,000 (29) | $798,000 (87) | $933,000 (23) |
| Murrayville | $771,000 (18) | $831,000 (17) | $1,010,000 (20) |
| Langley City | $670,000 (21) | $722,000 (34) | $789,000 (18) |
| Aldergrove | – | $572,000 (18) | – |
| All Langley | $706,000 (176) | $813,000 (401) | $923,000 (240) |
Elementary ratings are from the Fraser Institute’s 2025 report card (2023/24 results, 1,015 schools ranked); secondary from the 2020 report card (2018/19 results, 252 ranked), the most recent the Institute has published for BC secondaries. In the 2025 table the four highest-rated public elementaries in Langley are all in Walnut Grove: Alex Hope 8.3 (101st of 1,015), Gordon Greenwood 7.3, West Langley 7.0 and Topham 6.9. Walnut Grove Secondary rates 7.6 (41st of 252), the highest-rated catchment secondary in the township. Willoughby Elementary rates 6.8 and R.E. Mountain Secondary 6.0 (122nd). Fort Langley has Langley Fine Arts at 6.8 (K to 12, a choice school) and Fort Langley Elementary at 5.1. No Brookswood elementary rates above 6.7 in the 2025 table; Brookswood Secondary rates 6.2 (115th). Aldergrove has Coghlan Fundamental at 5.9. Open to any address: Langley Fundamental 6.8 elementary and 7.8 secondary (36th, public choice), and the independents St Catherine’s 9.7 and Langley Christian 7.6.
| Neighbourhood | Top public elementary (rating /10) | Catchment secondary | Months of supply | Days | % of ask | Benchmark, year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Grove | Alex Hope 8.3, Gordon Greenwood 7.3, West Langley 7.0, Topham 6.9 | Walnut Grove Secondary 7.6 | 3.6 | 21 | 97.6% | −4.9% |
| Willoughby | Willoughby 6.8 | R.E. Mountain 6.0 | 5.2 | 28 | 96.8% | −6.9% |
| Fort Langley | Langley Fine Arts 6.8 (choice), Fort Langley 5.1 | Langley Fine Arts | 5.5 | 51 | 95.4% | −8.6% |
| Brookswood | none above 6.7 | Brookswood Secondary 6.2 | 7.4 | 29 | 96.5% | −6.7% |
| Aldergrove | Coghlan Fundamental 5.9 | Aldergrove Community | 6.2 | 20 | 96.6% | −6.3% |
| Salmon River (rural) | none above 6.7 | D.W. Poppy 5.1 | 7.9 | 41 | 95.4% | −5.2% |
Walnut Grove is the answer for a family that wants a catchment chosen in advance and will pay for it in competition rather than dollars: the best-rated schools, the tightest house market in Langley (3.6 months), the quickest sale (21 days), the closest to ask (97.6%), and the smallest price fall on the year (4.9%). A four-bedroom house there sold at a median $1,421,000, below the Langley median of $1,468,000, because the houses are older and smaller; the price is paid in scarcity.
Willoughby is the answer for a family that wants a newer four-bedroom house or townhome and choice: 193 four-bedroom-plus houses sold at a median $1,505,000 and 175 four-bedroom-plus townhomes at $931,000, the most of any neighbourhood by far, with 91 houses and 165 townhomes for sale. Its schools rate mid-table, and its supply of new homes is being phased by the Township rather than opened all at once.
Murrayville is the answer for a family that wants the hilltop and a full ladder in one village: four-bedroom houses at a median $1,558,000 (48 sold), four-bedroom townhomes at $1,010,000 (20), the highest townhome benchmark in Langley at $854,100 and the mildest townhome fall (3.5%), on 4.1 months of house supply. Brookswood is the answer for a family that wants a big lot and can tell a home from a rebuild site: 85 four-bedroom houses at a median $1,632,000, but 7.4 months of supply and two markets on one street (a pre-1990 house at a median $1,304,000, a 2012-or-later build at $2,209,000). Aldergrove is where a four-bedroom house costs least, a median $1,114,000, and sells fastest, 20 days.
Pick the school first if a school is the point; Walnut Grove’s ratings are public and its catchments are drawn. Then decide whether you are buying a house or a four-bedroom townhome, because the townhome is $500,000 cheaper at the median and this year’s buyers chose it in numbers. Then price by the neighbourhood, not by Langley: a $1.5 million budget buys a four-bedroom house above the median in Willoughby, Walnut Grove, Langley City or Aldergrove and below it in Brookswood, Murrayville, Fort Langley or Salmon River. And walk the street on a Saturday, because that is the one thing the board cannot measure.
On the Fraser Institute’s published ratings, Walnut Grove: the four highest-rated public elementaries in Langley (Alex Hope 8.3, Gordon Greenwood 7.3, West Langley 7.0, Topham 6.9) and the highest-rated catchment secondary (Walnut Grove Secondary 7.6). Langley Fundamental, open to any address, rates 7.8 at secondary.
A median $1,468,000 across 632 sales in the twelve months to August 2026, ranging from $1,114,000 in Aldergrove to $2,178,000 in Fort Langley. A four-bedroom-plus townhome sold at a median $923,000 (240 sales).
Walnut Grove for schools and a steady, tight house market; Willoughby for choice, newer homes and the most four-bedroom houses and townhomes sold. The full comparison is in the Journal entry on the two neighbourhoods.
Aldergrove: a four-bedroom-plus house sold at a median $1,114,000 in the year to August 2026, and houses there sold in a median 20 days, the fastest in Langley.
Fraser Valley Real Estate Board MLS® August 2026 package, released 2 September 2026; sub-area and twelve-month figures from the board’s InfoSparks database, read 5 September 2026. Benchmarks are the board’s index price, never an average. Analysis: Hamish Ross.
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