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Getting around Acton Vale: walking and cycling times

à portée’s map shows the trip on foot and by bike from every populated block in Acton Vale to the nearest grocery store, pharmacy, school, park and other everyday places. It is free, with no account.

residents in 2021
7,605
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
52%
typical walk to a grocery store
15 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
106th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Acton Vale

Each block is coloured by the trip from it to the nearest place of the kind you pick, on foot or by bike. Move the map, or open it in à portée for any address and all 29 kinds of place.

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Getting around Acton Vale

The share of Acton Vale residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

PlaceOn footBy bike
Grocery store52%typical 15 min72%typical 6 min
Pharmacy43%typical 18 min73%typical 7 min
Park70%typical 7 min77%typical 2 min
Elementary school52%typical 15 min74%typical 6 min

Cycling follows the street network, hills included. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.

Acton Vale in numbers

52% of Acton Vale residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store33%52%63%73%15 min
Pharmacy31%43%56%72%18 min
Park64%70%74%80%7 min
Elementary school34%52%66%75%15 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceActon ValeQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store52%49%45%106th of 1,00032nd of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy43%49%51%258th of 1,00066th of 259 in Quebec
Park70%83%82%450th of 1,000136th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school52%53%55%227th of 1,00055th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Acton Vale residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min52%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min52%

Acton Vale Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Acton Vale in population, and the share of their residents within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store. Communities are 2021 census subdivisions (cities, towns, counties and other municipalities), compared within their municipal boundaries.

CommunityResidentsGrocery within 15 min
Douro-Dummer7,6321%
Acton Vale7,60552%
Saint-Philippe7,59716%
McNab/Braeside7,5914%
South-West Oxford7,58310%

More places across the Acton RCM census division

The Acton RCM census division has 15,654 residents, 49% of them in Acton Vale. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store41%
  • Café27%
  • Bakery18%
  • Library19%
  • Playground37%
  • Childcare22%
  • Community centre22%
  • Clinic21%

Shares of 2021 residents of populated census blocks, on foot along the street network. How the walking times are computed

Travel times are our best estimates from open data published October 8, 2026 and can contain errors. Walking and cycling times are rounded down, so “within 15 minutes” means under 16. Check before an important decision, and tell us if something looks wrong.

Questions

Is Acton Vale walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Acton Vale, 52% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Acton Vale ranks 106th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Acton Vale by bike?

By bike, 72% of Acton Vale residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 73% a pharmacy, 77% a park and 74% an elementary school. On foot, 52% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 6 min by bike and 15 min on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Is Acton Vale a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 52% of residents reach a grocery store, 43% a pharmacy, 70% a park and 52% an elementary school. These figures count each place separately; open the map to see how many residents have all four within 15 minutes, for the places you choose.

How does Acton Vale compare with communities of a similar size?

In Acton Vale, 52% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 1% in Douro-Dummer, 16% in Saint-Philippe, 4% in McNab/Braeside and 10% in South-West Oxford.

Where does this data come from?

Walking and cycling times follow the street network, hills included, from each populated 2021 census block to the nearest place of each kind. Places come from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, with health care and schools checked against Statistics Canada’s open databases. Shares are weighted by 2021 population. Data published 8 October 2026. How the times are computed

Acton Vale in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Acton RCM
Census subdivision code
2448028
Residents in 2021
7,605
Data published
8 October 2026
Provinces: Natural Earth.

Elsewhere

Sources: places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the Overture Maps Foundation; census blocks, 2021 populations and municipal boundaries adapted from Statistics Canada under the Open Government Licence – Canada; elevation from Natural Resources Canada; province outlines from Natural Earth; links from Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Figures derived from OpenStreetMap are under the ODbL. Data sources and licences

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