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Getting around Chestermere: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
22,163
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
27%
typical walk to a grocery store
21 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
488th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Chestermere

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 Chestermere

The share of Chestermere 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 store27%typical 21 min85%typical 8 min27%typical 21 min
Pharmacy46%typical 17 min>99%typical 6 min46%typical 17 min
Park97%typical 3 min>99%typical 1 min97%typical 3 min
Elementary school40%typical 18 min89%typical 7 min40%typical 18 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.

Chestermere in numbers

27% of Chestermere residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store12%27%46%77%21 min
Pharmacy25%46%63%87%17 min
Park94%97%98%>99%3 min
Elementary school18%40%57%73%18 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Alberta and Canada

PlaceChestermereAlbertaCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store27%40%45%488th of 1,00058th of 118 in Alberta
Pharmacy46%51%51%214th of 1,00033rd of 118 in Alberta
Park97%85%82%150th of 1,00036th of 118 in Alberta
Elementary school40%53%55%372nd of 1,00052nd of 118 in Alberta
Share of Chestermere residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min27%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min27%

Chestermere Alberta

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Chestermere 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
Kings, Subd. A22,35520%
Saint-Lazare22,3547%
Chestermere22,16327%
Kingsville22,11919%
Brockville22,11627%

More places across the Calgary area

The Calgary area has 1,590,639 residents, 1% of them in Chestermere. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store57%
  • Café49%
  • Bakery33%
  • Library10%
  • Playground92%
  • Childcare67%
  • Community centre34%
  • Clinic47%

Other communities in the Calgary 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 Chestermere walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Chestermere, 27% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Chestermere ranks 488th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Chestermere by bike?

By bike, 85% of Chestermere residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, over 99% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 89% an elementary school. On foot, 27% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 8 min by bike and 21 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 Chestermere?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 27% of Chestermere residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 27% on foot and 85% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 21 min by transit and 21 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Chestermere a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 27% of residents reach a grocery store, 46% a pharmacy, 97% a park and 40% 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 Chestermere compare with communities of a similar size?

In Chestermere, 27% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 20% in Kings, Subd. A, 7% in Saint-Lazare, 19% in Kingsville and 27% in Brockville.

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

Chestermere 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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