Understand the Township of Langley before you commit to an address
The Township of Langley is the second-largest municipality by area in this region and one of its fastest-growing. A hundred and thirty-three thousand people at the 2021 census across Willoughby, Walnut Grove, Brookswood, Murrayville, Fort Langley and Aldergrove, with a very large amount of farmland between them. Willoughby alone has added more new housing in the last fifteen years than most municipalities here contain. Figures come from one provincial table measured the same way in all 20 municipalities here. The rent shown is an interpolated regional figure rather than a survey of the Township of Langley specifically, and is marked as such wherever it appears.
The cost of living in Township of Langley, and what a home costs
Two calculators on British Columbia's own rules: semi-annual compounding and the real minimum down payment tiers, and the closing costs this province actually charges.
Rent or buy in the Township of Langley
Whether buying here beats renting, and the year it turns over. Both households start with the same cash, so the comparison is not rigged either way.
Mortgage calculator
Semi-annual compounding, the CMHC premium under twenty percent down, and the price cap that puts most of this region beyond an insured mortgage.
Then work out whether the Township of Langley is the right part of the region
No neighbourhood guides for the Township of Langley yet. What is here instead is the whole regional district on one comparable footing.
All 20 municipalities around Vancouver
Every municipality side by side on assessed value, the rate charged on it, and the bill that arrives, which does not rank the way the rate does.
Compare the regionVancouver, local area by local area
Twenty-two sourced guides to the city at the middle of all this, by its own official local areas.
Browse the city guidesWhat buying in the Township of Langley actually involves
The Township's rate of 0.3617% is the ninth-lowest of the twenty municipalities around Vancouver, and unlike West Vancouver's, this one is not an artefact of expensive housing. It is a genuinely broad base: a large industrial and agricultural land inventory, a fast-growing residential assessment, and a general municipal levy of $2,950 on a representative house that is the third-lowest in dollars in the region, after Belcarra and Surrey. The all-in bill of $7,242 on a $1.47 million house is real value by regional standards.
What you pay instead is distance. Forty-four kilometres from downtown Vancouver in a straight line is the furthest of these twenty municipalities, the Fraser Highway and Highway 1 are both slow at peak, and the SkyTrain will terminate in the City next door rather than here. The Township's six communities are also genuinely different from each other. Fort Langley is a heritage village, Willoughby is new townhouses at density, Aldergrove is a separate town twenty minutes further east, and the representative house averages across all of it.
Willoughby is where nearly all the growth has gone, and school capacity there has been the Township's most persistent problem: catchments move, portables are common, and the school a house is assigned to this year may not be the one it is assigned to next. For a family that is the single most important local check.
Brookswood, Fort Langley and Aldergrove are different propositions again, including properties on wells and septic in places, heritage constraints in the Fort, and a rural character that the Agricultural Land Reserve will keep. Servicing varies by community and sometimes by street.
Moving to Township of Langley: check these before you commit
- Which community, since Fort Langley, Willoughby, Brookswood and Aldergrove are different markets with different commutes.
- The Agricultural Land Reserve boundary, which covers roughly three-quarters of the Township and is permanent.
- How you would get to the SkyTrain terminus in the City of Langley once it opens, for most of the Township that is a drive and a park.
- School capacity and the current catchment for a Willoughby address, which changes with each phase.
- Whether the property is on municipal water and sewer or on well and septic, which varies by community.
Sourced, dated, and separated from the guesswork
Every Township of Langley figure below is cited, stamped with the period it describes, and editable, because a number for the whole city rarely describes your purchase. Appreciation and investment returns are assumptions rather than facts, and they are labelled that way. Read the methodology for how the line is drawn.
- Prices, rents and tax rates: published statistics and the official schedules.
- Nothing here is a lender quote, a pre-approval or financial advice.
Where the Township of Langley figures come from
- Schedule 704: Taxes and Charges on a Representative House, 2026 · Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Municipal Affairs · retrieved Supports: The assessed value of a representative single-family house in every British Columbia municipality, as valued by BC Assessment on 1 July 2025, School, general municipal, regional district and BC Assessment/MFA levies on that house, from which the total residential rate is computed, Parcel taxes and user fees per municipality: $1,459 a year in Port Coquitlam against $4,776 in Lions Bay
- Additional school tax rate · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: 0.2% on the residential value between $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 and 0.4% above it for the 2026 tax year, Budget 2026's increase to 0.3% and 0.6% effective for the 2027 and subsequent tax years
- Metro Vancouver Rent Report, June 2026: averages by municipality · liv.rent · retrieved Supports: Average asking rent for unfurnished units by municipality, for the nine municipalities the publisher reports by name, A Metro Vancouver average of $2,090 for a one-bedroom and $2,750 for a two-bedroom in June 2026, Year-over-year declines in unfurnished one-bedroom rent across every municipality reported
- Metro Vancouver home sales lose brief momentum: July 2026 statistics · Greater Vancouver REALTORS® · retrieved Supports: An MLS® HPI composite benchmark of $1,088,800 across the board area in July 2026, down 6.2% year over year, The market-wide series these pages are careful not to confuse with an assessment roll value
- Regulations amending the Insurable Housing Loan Regulations and the Eligible Mortgage Loan Regulations (SOR/2025-55) · Canada Gazette, Part II · retrieved Supports: The $1.5 million insured price cap, which more than half these municipalities' representative houses now exceed, 30-year insured amortization for first-time buyers and new builds
- Property transfer tax · Province of British Columbia · retrieved Supports: Transfer tax brackets, First-time buyer and new build exemptions