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Getting around Bécancour: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
13,561
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
28%
typical walk to a grocery store
34 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
464th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Bécancour

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

Transit times are for a weekday at peak hours. A free plus account adds a mode and a time limit for each place, and transit at night on weekdays and at midday on Saturday and Sunday.

Getting around Bécancour

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

PlaceOn footBy bikeBy transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store28%typical 34 min49%typical 16 min28%typical 34 min
Pharmacy31%typical 41 min45%typical 26 min31%typical 41 min
Park62%typical 10 min78%typical 4 min62%typical 10 min
Elementary school33%typical 22 min58%typical 12 min33%typical 22 min

Transit timetables cover the areas where 54% of Bécancour residents live. For the others, a transit trip is the walk.

Cycling and transit follow the street network, hills included. A transit trip includes the walk to and from the stops, at the median departure of a weekday morning peak, and is never slower than walking the whole way. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.

Bécancour in numbers

28% of Bécancour 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 store19%28%39%47%34 min
Pharmacy19%31%39%47%41 min
Park50%62%71%79%10 min
Elementary school19%33%48%58%22 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceBécancourQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store28%49%45%464th of 1,000146th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy31%49%51%450th of 1,000135th of 259 in Quebec
Park62%83%82%501st of 1,000158th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school33%53%55%443rd of 1,000133rd of 259 in Quebec
Share of Bécancour residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min28%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min28%

Bécancour Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Bécancour 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
Prévost13,69215%
Parksville13,64242%
Beauharnois13,63822%
South Stormont13,5709%
Bécancour13,56128%

More places across the Bécancour RCM census division

The Bécancour RCM census division has 20,748 residents, 65% of them in Bécancour. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store24%
  • Café21%
  • Bakery11%
  • Library17%
  • Playground23%
  • Childcare10%
  • Community centre22%
  • Clinic13%

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 Bécancour walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Bécancour, 28% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Bécancour ranks 464th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Bécancour by bike?

By bike, 49% of Bécancour residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 45% a pharmacy, 78% a park and 58% an elementary school. On foot, 28% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 16 min by bike and 34 min on foot. Cycling times follow the street network, hills included; they don’t say whether a street is safe or comfortable to ride.

Does transit help you reach everyday places in Bécancour?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 28% of Bécancour residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 28% on foot and 49% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 34 min by transit and 34 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk. Transit timetables cover the areas where 54% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Bécancour a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 28% of residents reach a grocery store, 31% a pharmacy, 62% a park and 33% 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 Bécancour compare with communities of a similar size?

In Bécancour, 28% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 15% in Prévost, 42% in Parksville, 22% in Beauharnois and 9% in South Stormont.

Where does this data come from?

Walking, cycling and transit times follow the street network, hills included, from each populated 2021 census block to the nearest place of each kind. Transit uses the operators’ published timetables at the weekday morning peak. 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

Bécancour in brief

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; transit times from the operators’ published timetables; 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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