Homes for Sale in Clarington

Highway 2, called King Street in Bowmanville and King Avenue in Newcastle, strings the urban areas together a kilometre or two north of the 401. Courtice is the west end, from Townline Road to roughly Hancock Road, a set of subdivisions built from the 1980s onward around Trulls Road, Courtice Road and Nash Road. Bowmanville starts west of Bowmanville Avenue with the newest subdivisions and the big-box centre at Clarington Boulevard, runs through a Victorian downtown around Temperance and King streets, and climbs north past Concession Road 3 into the current growth area. Newcastle is a compact village at Mill Street with new streets to the north and west and the Port of Newcastle community and marina on the lake. Orono sits on Main Street off the 35/115, twenty minutes north, with a few hundred houses and its own shops. Rural Clarington is the rest: Hampton, Enniskillen, Tyrone, Solina, Burketon, Kendal, Newtonville, Kirby and Leskard, each a crossroads with a hall or a store, and the concession roads between them.

The 401 crosses the south of the municipality with interchanges at Courtice Road, Holt Road, Bowmanville Avenue, Liberty Street, Bennett Road, Mill Street and Newtonville Road. Highway 418 opened in late 2019 to tie the 401 at Holt Road to the 407, and it has been toll-free since April 2022; the 407 itself ends at the 35/115 and the provincially owned section reportedly dropped its tolls in June 2025, so an Enfield or Solina buyer now has a free run west. Rail is the story to watch: Metrolinx is extending the Lakeshore East line from Oshawa to Bowmanville along the CP corridor, with stations planned at Thornton's Corners and Ritson Road in Oshawa, Courtice Road and Bowmanville on the west side of town. Early works began in 2023 and the Province has pointed to the end of the decade for trains, without a fixed date. Until then, GO buses and Durham Region Transit routes run Highway 2 to Oshawa GO, and DRT On Demand covers Newcastle, Orono and the hamlets.

Clarington's schools do not belong to the Durham boards. Public English schools are run by the Kawartha Pine Ridge board, whose secondary schools here are Bowmanville High School, Clarington Central in west Bowmanville, Courtice Secondary and Clarke High School in Newcastle. Catholic schools belong to the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic board, with St. Stephen in Bowmanville and Holy Trinity in Courtice as the high schools. Viamonde and MonAvenir, the French public and Catholic boards, serve French-language families, sometimes from schools in Oshawa. Boundaries are set by each board, so check the address. Lakeridge Health Bowmanville on Liberty Street South is the local hospital with an emergency department, and a major redevelopment under construction since 2023 is adding a new patient wing and a larger emergency department, reportedly for completion later this decade. Darlington Nuclear Generating Station on the lake at Holt Road has run four reactors since the early 1990s, is finishing a ten-year refurbishment, and holds the licence for Canada's first small modular reactor. Ontario Tech, Durham College and Trent Durham are in Oshawa.

The shoreline is public for long stretches. Darlington Provincial Park at Courtice has a campground and a beach, Port Darlington at the mouth of Bowmanville Creek has a marina and the East Beach waterfront park, the Samuel Wilmot Nature Area sits between the Wilmot Creek community and Newcastle, and Bond Head at the Port of Newcastle has a marina and a pier. The Waterfront Trail links them. Bowmanville Creek and Soper Creek run through the town in wooded valleys with trails, a fall salmon run at the Goodyear dam and the Visual Arts Centre in the old mill; Farewell Creek does the same in Courtice. North of Taunton Road the land rises onto the Oak Ridges Moraine, with Enniskillen and Long Sault conservation areas, Stephen's Gulch, the Orono Crown Lands, Tyrone Mills, a water-powered mill working since 1846, and the Ganaraska Forest beyond Kendal. Canadian Tire Motorsport Park draws race weekends to the countryside north of Bowmanville. Shopping is big-box at Clarington Boulevard and Highway 2, the Bowmanville Mall on King Street East, the downtown, and plazas in Courtice and Newcastle.