Getting around Blandford-Blenheim

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

residents in 2021: 7,565
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 0%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 926th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Blandford-Blenheim

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 Blandford-Blenheim

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

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Pharmacy	21%over an hour	35%typical 38 min	21%over an hour
Park	38%typical 20 min	45%typical 14 min	38%typical 20 min
Elementary school	18%over an hour	35%typical 39 min	18%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Pharmacy	32%over an hour	37%typical 38 min	32%over an hour
Park	46%typical 20 min	52%typical 14 min	46%typical 20 min
Elementary school	32%over an hour	36%typical 39 min	32%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Pharmacy	36%over an hour	38%typical 38 min	36%over an hour
Park	50%typical 20 min	57%typical 14 min	50%typical 20 min
Elementary school	35%over an hour	38%typical 39 min	35%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Pharmacy	37%over an hour	42%typical 38 min	37%over an hour
Park	56%typical 20 min	66%typical 14 min	56%typical 20 min
Elementary school	37%over an hour	41%typical 39 min	37%over an hour

Transit timetables cover the areas where 0% of Blandford-Blenheim 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.

Blandford-Blenheim in numbers

0% of Blandford-Blenheim 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

Place	10 min	15 min	20 min	30 min	Typical walk
Grocery store	0%	0%	0%	0%	over an hour
Pharmacy	21%	32%	36%	37%	over an hour
Park	38%	46%	50%	56%	20 min
Elementary school	18%	32%	35%	37%	over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

Place	Blandford-Blenheim	Ontario	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	0%	48%	45%	926th of 1,000261st of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy	32%	60%	51%	439th of 1,000121st of 269 in Ontario
Park	46%	87%	82%	622nd of 1,000159th of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school	32%	60%	55%	460th of 1,000122nd of 269 in Ontario

Share of Blandford-Blenheim residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store

Blandford-Blenheim Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Blandford-Blenheim 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.

Community	Residents	Grocery within 15 min
McNab/Braeside	7,591	4%
South-West Oxford	7,583	10%
Blandford-Blenheim	7,565	0%
Bluewater	7,540	26%
Shediac	7,535	45%

More places across the Oxford County census division

The Oxford County census division has 121,781 residents, 6% of them in Blandford-Blenheim. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store34%
Café34%
Bakery14%
Library17%
Playground61%
Childcare16%
Community centre20%
Clinic18%

Other communities in the Oxford County 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 Blandford-Blenheim walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Blandford-Blenheim, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Blandford-Blenheim ranks 926th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Blandford-Blenheim by bike?

By bike, 0% of Blandford-Blenheim residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 37% a pharmacy, 52% a park and 36% an elementary school. On foot, 0% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes over an hour 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.

Does transit help you reach everyday places in Blandford-Blenheim?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 0% of Blandford-Blenheim residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 0% on foot and 0% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes over an hour by transit and over an hour on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk. Transit timetables cover the areas where 0% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Blandford-Blenheim a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 0% of residents reach a grocery store, 32% a pharmacy, 46% a park and 32% 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 Blandford-Blenheim compare with communities of a similar size?

In Blandford-Blenheim, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 4% in McNab/Braeside, 10% in South-West Oxford, 26% in Bluewater and 45% in Shediac.

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

Blandford-Blenheim in brief

Province: Ontario
Census division: Oxford County
Census subdivision code: 3532045
Residents in 2021: 7,565
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; 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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