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Getting around Chambly: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
31,444
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
47%
typical walk to a grocery store
17 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
159th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Chambly

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 Chambly

The share of Chambly 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 store47%typical 17 min>99%typical 6 min50%typical 16 min
Pharmacy47%typical 16 min>99%typical 6 min48%typical 16 min
Park97%typical 4 min>99%typical 1 min97%typical 4 min
Elementary school45%typical 17 min>99%typical 6 min45%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.

Chambly in numbers

47% of Chambly 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 store20%47%66%88%17 min
Pharmacy22%47%68%90%16 min
Park92%97%99%>99%4 min
Elementary school26%45%62%89%17 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceChamblyQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store47%49%45%159th of 1,00051st of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy47%49%51%207th of 1,00050th of 259 in Quebec
Park97%83%82%145th of 1,00040th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school45%53%55%317th of 1,00083rd of 259 in Quebec
Share of Chambly residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min47%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min47%

Chambly Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Chambly 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
Parkland County32,2050%
Cochrane32,19910%
North Cowichan31,99034%
Chambly31,44447%
Centre Wellington31,09334%

More places across the La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM census division

The La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM census division has 131,803 residents, 24% of them in Chambly. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store46%
  • Café35%
  • Bakery17%
  • Library11%
  • Playground74%
  • Childcare52%
  • Community centre18%
  • Clinic25%

Other communities in the La Vallée-du-Richelieu 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 Chambly walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Chambly, 47% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Chambly ranks 159th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Chambly by bike?

By bike, over 99% of Chambly residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, over 99% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and over 99% an elementary school. On foot, 47% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 6 min by bike and 17 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 Chambly?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 50% of Chambly residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 47% on foot and over 99% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 16 min by transit and 17 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Chambly a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 47% of residents reach a grocery store, 47% a pharmacy, 97% a park and 45% 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 Chambly compare with communities of a similar size?

In Chambly, 47% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 0% in Parkland County, 10% in Cochrane, 34% in North Cowichan and 34% in Centre Wellington.

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

Chambly 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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