Apartments for Rent in Westboro

A village that grew up

Westboro began as a village outside Ottawa and its bones still show: a walkable main street, churches turned into condos, and a grid of quiet residential streets running down to the river. Over the past two decades it has become one of the city's most sought-after neighbourhoods, adding mid-rise apartments and infill homes while Richmond Road filled with retailers. The result is a neighbourhood that reads as established rather than new — busy on the main street, calm one block off it.

Housing follows the same pattern. The streets between Richmond Road and the river hold wartime homes, post-war walk-ups, and newer infill side by side, while the towers cluster along the main strip. Renters who want Westboro without tower pricing look to the low-rise buildings on the residential streets, where the beach and the shops are still minutes away on foot.

The river and the beach

No other central Ottawa neighbourhood has this: a real beach. Westboro Beach on the Ottawa River is a five-to-fifteen-minute walk from most of the neighbourhood, with a rebuilt pavilion, supervised swimming in summer, and river views year-round. The riverfront pathway network runs east to downtown and west past Britannia, making it one of the best commuting and training routes in the city. Kayakers and paddleboarders launch steps from residential streets.

Inland, Byron Linear Park runs the neighbourhood's length — a green corridor that hosts the Saturday farmers' market through the warm months — and Hampton Park adds woods and off-leash trails at the eastern edge.

The river corridor works in winter too: a volunteer-groomed winter trail along the parkway lets residents cross-country ski and snowshoe from their own neighbourhood, one of the reasons Westboro's outdoor identity holds up twelve months a year rather than four.

Richmond Road: shopping and groceries

Richmond Road is one of Ottawa's strongest retail strips. Outdoor-gear stores anchor it — fitting, given the clientele — alongside boutiques, bakeries, and a dense run of cafés and restaurants. For groceries, Farm Boy and a full-size Superstore sit within the neighbourhood, an everyday convenience many central neighbourhoods lack. Wellington West's restaurant row continues seamlessly from Westboro's eastern edge.

Getting downtown

Rapid transit serves the neighbourhood at Westboro and Tunney's Pasture stations on its eastern side, with frequent buses along Richmond Road connecting the rest. Driving downtown takes about ten minutes outside rush hour via the riverside parkway, and the cycling commute along the river path is flat, scenic, and car-free the whole way.

The neighbourhoods next door

Westboro's eastern boundary blends into Wellington West and Hintonburg, which together form one of Ottawa's best restaurant corridors — residents treat all three neighbourhoods as a single strip that starts at Island Park Drive and runs toward downtown. To the west, Carlingwood's mall and big-box services cover whatever Richmond Road doesn't. And across the river, Gatineau Park's trails and ski hills are a fifteen-minute drive, which is much of why outdoor-minded professionals concentrate here: weeknight skiing and trail running are actually feasible.

Schools and community life

Broadview Public School and Nepean High School give the neighbourhood a strong public-school spine, with Notre Dame High School serving the Catholic board. The Dovercourt Recreation Centre is the community's hub — pools, camps, and fitness programs that draw families from across the city's west side. Our building at 341 & 345 Whitby Avenue sits near Hampton Park, listed below.