Homes for Sale in Whitby

Think of Whitby in three horizontal bands. Below Highway 401 is Port Whitby: the harbour, the marina, the rail corridor and the GO station, with newer condo and townhouse blocks around Victoria Street. Between the 401 and Taunton Road is the older town. Downtown Whitby keeps its Victorian main street on Brock Street and the heritage homes on the side streets east of it, and the subdivisions of Lynde Creek to the west, Pringle Creek and Blue Grass Meadows in the middle, and Rolling Acres toward the Oshawa line fan out from it. Above Taunton Road the town is younger: Williamsburg and Taunton North date from the 1990s and 2000s, and Brooklin, at the junction of Highway 7 and Highway 12, grew from a mill village settled in the 1820s into a community that local estimates put at roughly 25,000 to 30,000 people. Beyond Brooklin the rural hamlets of Ashburn, Myrtle and Myrtle Station sit on farm and moraine land. The west boundary follows Lake Ridge Road and the Highway 412 corridor; Ajax is on the other side.

Whitby GO Station at 1350 Brock Street South opened on December 4, 1988, and now has about three thousand parking spaces, including a multi-storey structure. Lakeshore East trains run to Union Station, and since the September 2021 timetable the local pattern has been every 15 minutes on weekdays and every 30 minutes on weekends, subject to Metrolinx timetable changes. Durham Region Transit buses loop through the station toward Taunton Road, the north Oshawa campus, Port Whitby, Pickering Parkway Terminal and Oshawa Centre. The PULSE rapid routes cross the town too: 900 along Dundas Street, 915 along Taunton Road and 916 along Rossland Road. Highway 401 has interchanges at Brock Street, Thickson Road and the 412. Highway 407 opened through north Whitby on June 20, 2016, with ramps at Lake Ridge Road, Baldwin Street and Thickson Road. Highway 412, the 8.9 kilometre link between the 401 and the 407 along Lake Ridge Road, has been toll-free since April 5, 2022, and the provincially run stretch of the 407 east of Brock Road reportedly dropped its tolls on June 1, 2025.

Two English boards cover the town. The Durham District School Board is headquartered in Whitby at 400 Taunton Road East, and the Durham Catholic District School Board runs the Catholic elementary and secondary schools from its Oshawa office. French-language families have Conseil scolaire Viamonde (public) and Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (Catholic). Every board draws its own attendance boundaries, so confirm the assigned school for a specific address with the board before you rely on it. Durham College opened its Whitby campus in 1993 as a skills training centre, and the Ontario Power Generation Centre for Skilled Trades and Technology joined it in 2022. Lakeridge Health Whitby is a specialty hospital with a regional mandate rather than an emergency site; the nearest emergency departments are Lakeridge Health Oshawa and Lakeridge Health Ajax Pickering. Lakeridge Health has also protected 50 acres in Whitby for a future Durham hospital, south of Highway 407, west of the 412, east of Lake Ridge Road and north of Highway 7, accepted by its board on January 6, 2022, with roughly a ten-year build ahead.

Whitby Harbour is now a 420-berth recreational marina, and Iroquois Park Sports Centre beside it runs six ice pads, a pool and the outdoor fields, so Port Whitby is where the town gathers for hockey, sailing and the Waterfront Trail. West of the harbour, Lynde Shores Conservation Area at 1225 Victoria Street West protects 272 hectares around the mouth of Lynde Creek, including Cranberry Marsh, with roughly five kilometres of trail and the chickadees that eat from your hand; the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority has run it since 1972. North of Taunton Road the same authority operates Heber Down Conservation Area, 284 hectares of the Lynde Creek valley with the Devil's Den gully, an old Lake Iroquois beach ridge and trails used by hikers and mountain bikers. For errands, Whitby Mall at 1615 Dundas Street East dates from 1970 and its owner has floated a mixed-use rebuild since 2017, while the big-box rows on Taunton and Thickson handle groceries and hardware. Downtown Whitby keeps the independent restaurants, the library and the Saturday farmers' market crowd along Brock Street.