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Getting around Blainville: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
59,819
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
38%
typical walk to a grocery store
20 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
292nd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Blainville

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 Blainville

The share of Blainville 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 store38%typical 20 min81%typical 9 min39%typical 19 min
Pharmacy42%typical 17 min91%typical 6 min42%typical 17 min
Park93%typical 6 min>99%typical 2 min93%typical 6 min
Elementary school43%typical 18 min96%typical 7 min44%typical 17 min

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.

Blainville in numbers

38% of Blainville 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 store17%38%51%68%20 min
Pharmacy21%42%60%72%17 min
Park79%93%98%>99%6 min
Elementary school22%43%59%83%18 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceBlainvilleQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store38%49%45%292nd of 1,00090th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy42%49%51%270th of 1,00073rd of 259 in Quebec
Park93%83%82%215th of 1,00059th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school43%53%55%340th of 1,00091st of 259 in Quebec
Share of Blainville residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min38%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min38%

Blainville Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Blainville 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
Aurora62,05735%
Port Coquitlam61,49851%
Mirabel61,10830%
Blainville59,81938%
North Vancouver (city)58,12081%

More places across the Thérèse-De Blainville RCM census division

The Thérèse-De Blainville RCM census division has 163,632 residents, 37% of them in Blainville. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store57%
  • Café42%
  • Bakery29%
  • Library14%
  • Playground80%
  • Childcare55%
  • Community centre16%
  • Clinic25%

Other communities in the Thérèse-De Blainville RCM 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 Blainville walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Blainville, 38% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Blainville ranks 292nd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Blainville by bike?

By bike, 81% of Blainville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 91% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 96% an elementary school. On foot, 38% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 9 min by bike and 20 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 Blainville?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 39% of Blainville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 38% on foot and 81% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 19 min by transit and 20 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Blainville a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 38% of residents reach a grocery store, 42% a pharmacy, 93% a park and 43% 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 Blainville compare with communities of a similar size?

In Blainville, 38% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 35% in Aurora, 51% in Port Coquitlam, 30% in Mirabel and 81% in North Vancouver (city).

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

Blainville in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Thérèse-De Blainville RCM
Census subdivision code
2473015
Residents in 2021
59,819
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; 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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