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Getting around Alfred and Plantagenet: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
9,949
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
24%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
531st

15% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Alfred and Plantagenet

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 Alfred and Plantagenet

The share of Alfred and Plantagenet 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 store24%over an hour32%typical 53 min
Pharmacy27%typical 47 min35%typical 31 min
Park40%typical 23 min51%typical 13 min
Elementary school31%typical 44 min40%typical 28 min

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

Alfred and Plantagenet in numbers

24% of Alfred and Plantagenet residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store11%24%31%35%over an hour
Pharmacy16%27%32%42%47 min
Park28%40%48%56%23 min
Elementary school16%31%37%45%44 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceAlfred and PlantagenetOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store24%48%45%531st of 1,000138th of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy27%60%51%526th of 1,000148th of 269 in Ontario
Park40%87%82%675th of 1,000182nd of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school31%60%55%476th of 1,000130th of 269 in Ontario

15% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Share of Alfred and Plantagenet residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min24%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min24%

Alfred and Plantagenet Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Alfred and Plantagenet 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
Ponoka County9,9980%
Alfred and Plantagenet9,94924%
Morden9,92933%
Whitecourt9,92749%
Quesnel9,88935%

More places across the Prescott and Russell census division

The Prescott and Russell census division has 95,639 residents, 10% of them in Alfred and Plantagenet. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store33%
  • Café30%
  • Bakery14%
  • Library20%
  • Playground50%
  • Childcare26%
  • Community centre17%
  • Clinic14%

Other communities in the Prescott and Russell area

Beside each community is the share of its residents who can reach a grocery store within a 15-minute walk.

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 Alfred and Plantagenet walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Alfred and Plantagenet, 24% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Alfred and Plantagenet ranks 531st of 1,000 communities. 15% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Can you get around Alfred and Plantagenet by bike?

By bike, 32% of Alfred and Plantagenet residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 35% a pharmacy, 51% a park and 40% an elementary school. On foot, 24% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 53 min by bike and over an hour on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Is Alfred and Plantagenet a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 24% of residents reach a grocery store, 27% a pharmacy, 40% a park and 31% 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 Alfred and Plantagenet compare with communities of a similar size?

In Alfred and Plantagenet, 24% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 0% in Ponoka County, 33% in Morden, 49% in Whitecourt and 35% in Quesnel.

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

Alfred and Plantagenet in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Prescott and Russell
Census subdivision code
3502023
Residents in 2021
9,949
Data published
8 October 2026
Provinces: Natural Earth.

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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