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Western University Residences
The main campus at Western University offers student housing to both first-year and upper-year students in its nine student residences.

Types of Residences

Western offers students three types of residences.

Traditional: These residences contain either a single or a double room on a floor of roughly 40 individuals with a gender-specific washrooms on each floor. The traditional residences include Medway-Sydenham Hall, Saugeen-Maitland Hall, and Delaware Hall.

Suite-style: These residence suites contain four single rooms with a shared common room and kitchenette. Each suite also contains two washrooms shared between four individuals. The suite-style residences include Elgin Hall, Essex Hall, Alumni House, and London Hall. Moreover, London Hall and Alumni House are now strictly upper-year student residences.

Hybrid: These residences are a mix between traditional and suite-style residences. Suites in these residence buildings are comprised of either two double or single rooms with a shared washroom. The hybrid residences include Perth Hall and Ontario Hall.

Roommates
Roommates are assigned to students via an online roommate-matching algorithm through StarRez Software. Through this software, Western develops a questionnaire where prospective students answer questions regarding their study habits, lifestyle choices, cleanliness, among other questions. From the questionnaire, the algorithm matches students with similar answers. Students will not meet their roommates until move-in day. Moreover, students have the option to choose from a list of individuals with similar answers, speak to them, and decide his or her own roommate. However the names of these individuals are anonymous; but if they wish to reveal his or her name, or discuss other interests he or she may do so.

Floors
Each residence has numerous floors in the building which constitute a community. Moreover, there are specialty floors titled "Living Learning Community Floors" which aim to combine students of same interests together. There are two types of Living Learning Community Floors: Faculty-Based and Interest-Based.

Faculty-Based
These floors are designed to combine students of the same faculty together to ease academic transition into university.

Interest-Based
Interest-Based floors are floors containing individuals who are passionate about certain topics or prefer a certain lifestyle.

Academics
Each residence has an Academic Leadership Programmer (ALP) who connects students in the residence to academic resources on campus. Each ALP works collaboratively with the Office of Residence Education and Programs, Student Services, as well as Learning Skills Services. The ALP also coordinates academic activities to engage students in academics such as: professor meet and greets, review sessions, academic cafes, presentations to improve your writing skills, multiple choice exam performance, among others.

Orientation
Residence at Western, along with the university administration and the University Student's Council, is a large part of Western University's Orientation Week. Orientation is a campus-wide event that includes outdoor activities and concerts facilitated to smooth the transition from high school to university. Residence activities are also included in Orientation Week to help students familiarize with their new building and the other residents.

Sophs (Sophmore Students)
Sophs are upper-year student leaders who are assigned to a group of first-year students to help with the transition into university. These volunteer students help first-year students from move-in day and continue throughout the rest of the academic school year. There are two types of sophs: Residence Sophs and Faculty Sophs.

Residence Sophs are upper-year students who live in each building and attend to a floor of first-year students. Residence sophs provide guidance and support regarding the transition to university life.

Faculty Sophs are upper-year students who live off-campus and are assigned a specific number of students in their faculty. Faculty sophs visit their first-year students in residence regularly and provide tips and strategies for excelling academically.

Dining
Western Residence offers in-house dining halls in each residence with the exception of the upper-year residences, London Hall and Alumni House. In-house dining consists of salad and fruit bars, soup and sandwich bars, hot meals, and late-night snack bars. Residence dining halls also contain pre-packed food on-the-go, and a variety of frozen meal options.To pay for dining hall costs, each student pays an overhead fee and a food credit fee. The overhead fee is used to maintain and operate each dining hall including labour, capital costs, equipment, etc. Subsequently, the food credit fee works as a declining balance like a debit card on your Western OneCard. Moreover, students have the option of purchasing a small, medium, or large food credit, which consists of Residence Dollars and Flex Dollars. Residence dollars are used at campus eateries and residence dining halls where the food purchased is reduced and tax-exempt. Subsequently, flex dollars are used to purchase on-campus confection purchases and meals from meal plan partners within the city of London, Ontario.

Students can use their Western OneCard at the following off-campus eateries:
 * Barakat (Western and Sarnia Road location only)
 * Chil Organic Frozen Yogurt Bar
 * Eastside Mario's (94 Fanshawe Park Road location only)
 * Harvey's (90 Fanshawe Park Road location only)
 * Jack Astor's Bar and Grill (660 Richmond Street location only)
 * Montana's (1345 Fanshawe Park Road. W. location only)
 * Moxie's (441 Richmond Street location only)
 * Subway (1181 Western Road location only)
 * Swiss Chalet (735 Wonderland Road N. location only)
 * The Wave (Western University Campus)
 * The Spoke (Western University Campus)