Langley

Langley is really two places sharing one name. The [Township of Langley](https://www.tol.ca/) sprawls across roughly 308 square kilometres of farmland, forest, and fast-growing suburban communities, wrapping almost entirely around the much smaller [City of Langley](https://www.langleycity.ca/) — about 10 square kilometres of denser, walkable downtown anchored on Fraser Highway and 200 Street. Together they're home to roughly 161,000 residents per the [2021 Census](https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/), sitting on the seam between Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley, bordered by Surrey to the west, the Fraser River to the north, Abbotsford to the east, and the Canada–United States border to the south. The area carries a deep historical thread. Fort Langley, on the Fraser, is where the Crown Colony of British Columbia was proclaimed in 1858, and the village still draws weekend visitors to its heritage main street. The Township was incorporated in 1873; the City separated and incorporated in 1955. Today the geography ranges from the riverfront and Trans-Canada Highway 1 corridor in the north, through agricultural land and three Metro Vancouver regional parks — Derby Reach, Campbell Valley, and Aldergrove — to the rural southern reaches near the border. What ties the neighbourhoods together is change in motion. The Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension is under construction, with TransLink targeting a late-2028 opening at Langley Centre, and the communities along that future line are shifting accordingly. The five neighbourhood guides that follow — from established Walnut Grove and the heritage pull of Fort Langley to Willoughby's newer townhome grids, Brookswood and South Langley's larger lots, and Aldergrove at the eastern edge — each tell a different version of the Langley story.