Uxbridge Real Estate

The town of Uxbridge itself is compact: a Brock Street downtown of brick storefronts, Victorian and Edwardian houses on the streets around it, postwar bungalows and split-levels from the 1950s to 1970s, and builder subdivisions from the 1980s onward on the south and west edges, including the Quaker Village and Testa Heights areas. Townhouses exist but are a small share, mostly in the newer phases. Outside the urban boundary the township is farms, horse properties, hobby acreages and estate lots on the moraine, with century farmhouses and custom homes on gravel and paved concessions. The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan and the Greenbelt Plan cover most of the rural land and tightly limit new lots and some additions, so acreage is bought as it stands. Wells and septic systems are the norm outside town, and rural values turn on things a city buyer never thinks about: the well record, the septic age, road maintenance and whether the driveway gets plowed in February.

Highway 47 was a provincial highway from 1937 until 1998, when it was handed to the region; it is still the spine, running west through Goodwood to Highway 48 at Stouffville and east to Highway 12 near Greenbank. Drivers heading to Toronto take it west to Highway 404 or drop south on Lake Ridge Road or Brock Road to the 407, whose provincially owned section reportedly lost its tolls in June 2025. GO Transit's Stouffville corridor bus, Route 70 as of this writing, connects the Uxbridge terminal and Goodwood with Old Elm, Stouffville and Mount Joy GO stations for the train; the service is limited and weekday-focused, so read the timetable before relying on it. Durham Region Transit runs Route 905 toward Port Perry and Whitby and a local Route 605 loop, and On Demand rides can be booked from stops in town or from the driveway in rural areas, with a connection to York Region Transit in Mount Albert. The York-Durham Heritage Railway reportedly stopped running in 2024.

Public schools belong to Durham District School Board: Uxbridge Secondary School in town, with Uxbridge Public School, Joseph Gould Public School, Quaker Village Public School, Goodwood Public School and Scott Central Public School feeding it from the town, the west and the north. Catholic elementary students go to St. Joseph Catholic School, opened under Durham Catholic District School Board in 1989; there is no Catholic high school in the township, so secondary students bus south, generally to Father Leo J. Austin in Whitby or Monsignor Paul Dwyer in Oshawa. French-language schooling is through Conseil scolaire Viamonde and MonAvenir. Both boards set their own attendance areas and rural addresses are usually bused, so check a specific street with the board rather than assuming the nearest school. The closest post-secondary campuses are Ontario Tech and Durham College in north Oshawa, roughly a half-hour drive down Lake Ridge Road or Highway 12.

The trails are the point of living here. Durham Regional Forest and the Walker Woods and Glen Major tracts south of town, the Countryside Preserve on the edge of the urban area and the Trans Canada Trail through the middle give hikers, mountain bikers, skiers and riders more ground than they can cover in a season. Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, a 30-bed community hospital opened in 1958, is affiliated with the Markham Stouffville hospital; Lakeridge Health's Port Perry and Oshawa sites and Markham Stouffville handle the heavier care. The Uxbridge Arena and Community Centre, the outdoor pool, the splash pad and the library are all municipal. Shopping means a Brock Street downtown of independents plus a grocery-and-hardware strip on the west side; a big-box run means Stouffville, Whitby or Markham. Two conservation authorities cover the township: Lake Simcoe Region on the north-flowing Beaver River and Pefferlaw watersheds, reportedly folded into a new Lake Huron regional authority in March 2026, and Toronto and Region on the Duffins Creek headwaters to the south.