Komoka & Kilworth

Bus. Middlesex County Connect Route 4 runs London, Komoka, Mount Brydges, Strathroy and Sarnia, seven days a week. Its Komoka stop is the Komoka Wellness Centre, where transit riders can park for free (not overnight). Route 4 fares run from $5 to $20 by distance, cash only, and trips can be booked on the Blaise app. Check the current schedule with Middlesex County Connect before you plan a commute around it.

Train. VIA Rail's staffed station is downtown London at 205 York Street. There's also a VIA shelter in Strathroy, off Metcalfe Street West.

The drive. For most people here, the car does the daily work. Try your commute at the hour you'd really leave, and you'll know what your day looks like.

This is where Middlesex Centre has chosen to grow. The municipality's Official Plan directs most new housing to its two urban settlement areas and expects Komoka-Kilworth to take roughly 63% of the municipality's housing growth out to 2046. New development here has to be on full municipal water and sewer. In practice that means new subdivisions keep coming, phased outward from the built-up area.

The big files in front of council (the large Kilworth plan on Glendon Drive and Renwick Estates in Komoka) are covered on our moving out from London page, along with how a detached house here compares with one in the city.

If you're buying a resale, ask how old the house is and which phase it was built in. The streets were built in waves, and the age of a neighbourhood tells you a lot about lot sizes, trees and what's due for replacing.

What's being built

Komoka Provincial Park protects 321 hectares along the Thames, a park since 1989. It's open year-round for day use: hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, canoeing, fishing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Much of it is old farmland returning to meadow, with mature forest along the river. Park at 503 Gideon Drive or at the Ponds lot, 22290 Komoka Road.

Komoka Park, 133 Queen Street, holds the community centre (a hall that seats 330 for dinner and hosts pickleball, basketball and volleyball), lit ball diamonds, soccer fields, tennis and pickleball courts, a 1.8 km walking trail and Ethan's Garden, a native, pollinator-friendly garden. The railway museum is next door at 131 Queen Street.

In Kilworth, Westbrook Park (58 Westbrook Crescent) has one of the municipality's three splash pads, two lit tennis and pickleball courts, a soccer field, a basketball court and a practice diamond. Kilworth Optimist Park on Stephen Moore Drive has a play structure and walking trails, and River's Edge and the River Flats give you informal trails along the north bank of the Thames. Komoka's Caverhill Park has a playground and a paved path out to the pond.

Golf? Oxbow Glen and Firerock are both public courses with Komoka addresses. And come late winter, McLachlan Brothers on Lamont Drive, a family maple operation since 1842, opens its pancake house from late February to early April.

• Rec centreKomoka Wellness Centre: two NHL-size rinks, YMCA gym, library
• Big parkKomoka Provincial Park, 321 hectares on the Thames

The year in Komoka & Kilworth

Saturday mornings in season, the Komoka Community Market sets up in the wellness centre parking lot, 9 a.m. to noon, with local farms, makers and live music.

Canada Day is shared. The Del-Ko-Brydge committee's celebration moves between Delaware, Komoka and Mount Brydges; in 2026 the day was in Mount Brydges and the fireworks went up at the Komoka Community Centre at 10 p.m.

Summer at the railway museum. In July and August 2025 the museum was open Thursday to Sunday, 9 to 4. Check its hours before you go.

December brings Holiday Hoopla at the wellness centre, a free evening hosted by the municipality, the YMCA, the county library and the Optimist Club of Komoka-Kilworth, with donations going to the Ailsa Craig & Area Food Bank. Over the school break there's free holiday skating at the wellness centre and Ilderton Arena, paid for by local sponsors.

The rest of the year runs on the arena calendar: free public skating from September to April, minor hockey, and the park diamonds and fields from spring to fall.

Water and sewer. Komoka and Kilworth are on the Middlesex Centre Water System. Most of the municipality's water comes from Lake Huron through the Lake Huron Primary Water Supply System, and some comes under a contract with the City of London. Middlesex Centre runs two wastewater treatment plants, one of them in Komoka.

Planning. The Official Plan treats Komoka-Kilworth as one urban settlement area where all new development must be on full municipal services, and growth is meant to proceed in phases. In October 2024 the municipality told the province that its plan update (Official Plan Amendment 59) was under appeal at the Ontario Land Tribunal, so if you're looking at land near the edge of the settlement area, ask the municipality's planning staff where things stand.

Zoning, permits and the tax bill all come from Middlesex Centre, even where the mailing address says Komoka or London. Confirm which municipality a property sits in before you plan a garage, a pool or a second unit.