Getting around Burnaby: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 249,125
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 73%
typical walk to a grocery store: 10 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 21st

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Burnaby

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 Burnaby

The share of Burnaby 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	52%typical 10 min	86%typical 6 min	52%typical 10 min
Pharmacy	48%typical 11 min	79%typical 6 min	48%typical 11 min
Park	95%typical 4 min	>99%typical 2 min	96%typical 4 min
Elementary school	39%typical 12 min	80%typical 7 min	39%typical 12 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	73%typical 10 min	97%typical 6 min	76%typical 10 min
Pharmacy	65%typical 11 min	93%typical 6 min	68%typical 11 min
Park	>99%typical 4 min	100%typical 2 min	>99%typical 4 min
Elementary school	67%typical 12 min	97%typical 7 min	69%typical 12 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	86%typical 10 min	99%typical 6 min	91%typical 10 min
Pharmacy	79%typical 11 min	99%typical 6 min	87%typical 11 min
Park	100%typical 4 min	100%typical 2 min	100%typical 4 min
Elementary school	87%typical 12 min	>99%typical 7 min	92%typical 12 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	95%typical 10 min	100%typical 6 min	99%typical 10 min
Pharmacy	95%typical 11 min	100%typical 6 min	>99%typical 11 min
Park	100%typical 4 min	100%typical 2 min	100%typical 4 min
Elementary school	99%typical 12 min	100%typical 7 min	>99%typical 12 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.

Burnaby in numbers

73% of Burnaby residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across British Columbia and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place	10 min	15 min	20 min	30 min	Typical walk
Grocery store	52%	73%	86%	95%	10 min
Pharmacy	48%	65%	79%	95%	11 min
Park	95%	>99%	100%	100%	4 min
Elementary school	39%	67%	87%	99%	12 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside British Columbia and Canada

Place	Burnaby	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	73%	48%	45%	21st of 1,0008th of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	65%	48%	51%	48th of 1,0008th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	>99%	86%	82%	31st of 1,0009th of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	67%	58%	55%	89th of 1,00020th of 155 in British Columbia

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

Burnaby British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Burnaby 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
Saskatoon	266,141	50%
Kitchener	256,885	54%
Longueuil	254,483	66%
Burnaby	249,125	73%
Windsor	229,660	46%

More places across the Greater Vancouver Regional District census division

The Greater Vancouver Regional District census division has 2,642,825 residents, 9% of them in Burnaby. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store65%
Café68%
Bakery51%
Library26%
Playground92%
Childcare78%
Community centre45%
Clinic54%

Other communities in the Greater Vancouver Regional District 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 Burnaby walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Burnaby, 73% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across British Columbia and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Burnaby ranks 21st of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Burnaby by bike?

By bike, 97% of Burnaby residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 93% a pharmacy, 100% a park and 97% an elementary school. On foot, 73% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 6 min by bike and 10 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 Burnaby?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 76% of Burnaby residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 73% on foot and 97% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 10 min by transit and 10 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Burnaby a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 73% of residents reach a grocery store, 65% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 67% 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 Burnaby compare with communities of a similar size?

In Burnaby, 73% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 50% in Saskatoon, 54% in Kitchener, 66% in Longueuil and 46% in Windsor.

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

Burnaby in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: Greater Vancouver Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5915025
Residents in 2021: 249,125
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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