Getting around Bright: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021: 3,317
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 Bright

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 Bright

The share of Bright 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
Grocery store	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Pharmacy	0%over an hour	0%over an hour
Park	17%typical 35 min	33%typical 22 min
Elementary school	3%over an hour	4%over an hour

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

Bright in numbers

0% of Bright residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 21% across New Brunswick 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	0%	0%	0%	1%	over an hour
Park	11%	17%	19%	41%	35 min
Elementary school	3%	3%	5%	14%	over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside New Brunswick and Canada

Place	Bright	New Brunswick	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	0%	21%	45%	926th of 1,00035th of 48 in New Brunswick
Pharmacy	0%	21%	51%	893rd of 1,00032nd of 48 in New Brunswick
Park	17%	46%	82%	839th of 1,00027th of 48 in New Brunswick
Elementary school	3%	24%	55%	867th of 1,00036th of 48 in New Brunswick

Share of Bright residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store

Bright New Brunswick

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Bright 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
Columbia-Shuswap A	3,325	6%
Lake Cowichan	3,325	68%
Thompson-Nicola L (Grasslands)	3,321	0%
Bifrost-Riverton	3,320	13%
Bright	3,317	0%

More places across the York census division

The York census division has 105,261 residents, 3% of them in Bright. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store38%
Café27%
Bakery14%
Library13%
Playground40%
Childcare27%
Community centre21%
Clinic20%

Other communities in the York 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 Bright walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Bright, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 21% across New Brunswick and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Bright ranks 926th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Bright by bike?

By bike, 0% of Bright residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 0% a pharmacy, 33% a park and 4% 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.

Is Bright a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 0% of residents reach a grocery store, 0% a pharmacy, 17% a park and 3% 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 Bright compare with communities of a similar size?

In Bright, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 6% in Columbia-Shuswap A, 68% in Lake Cowichan, 0% in Thompson-Nicola L (Grasslands) and 13% in Bifrost-Riverton.

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

Bright in brief

Province: New Brunswick
Census division: York
Census subdivision code: 1310026
Residents in 2021: 3,317
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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