Getting around Delta: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 108,455
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 44%
typical walk to a grocery store: 17 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 205th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Delta

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 Delta

The share of Delta 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	23%typical 17 min	76%typical 6 min	24%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	25%typical 17 min	84%typical 6 min	25%typical 16 min
Park	90%typical 5 min	99%typical 2 min	90%typical 5 min
Elementary school	43%typical 11 min	97%typical 5 min	44%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	44%typical 17 min	89%typical 6 min	45%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	46%typical 17 min	96%typical 6 min	47%typical 16 min
Park	98%typical 5 min	>99%typical 2 min	98%typical 5 min
Elementary school	75%typical 11 min	98%typical 5 min	76%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	58%typical 17 min	97%typical 6 min	64%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	63%typical 17 min	98%typical 6 min	68%typical 16 min
Park	99%typical 5 min	>99%typical 2 min	99%typical 5 min
Elementary school	92%typical 11 min	99%typical 5 min	93%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	78%typical 17 min	99%typical 6 min	91%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	87%typical 17 min	98%typical 6 min	93%typical 16 min
Park	99%typical 5 min	100%typical 2 min	99%typical 5 min
Elementary school	97%typical 11 min	99%typical 5 min	98%typical 11 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.

Delta in numbers

44% of Delta 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	23%	44%	58%	78%	17 min
Pharmacy	25%	46%	63%	87%	17 min
Park	90%	98%	99%	99%	5 min
Elementary school	43%	75%	92%	97%	11 min

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

Place	Delta	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	44%	48%	45%	205th of 1,00037th of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	46%	48%	51%	211th of 1,00027th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	98%	86%	82%	116th of 1,00026th of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	75%	58%	55%	39th of 1,0009th of 155 in British Columbia

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

Delta British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Delta 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
St. John's	110,525	43%
Thunder Bay	108,843	44%
Delta	108,455	44%
Brantford	104,688	42%
Chatham-Kent	103,988	33%

More places across the Greater Vancouver Regional District census division

The Greater Vancouver Regional District census division has 2,642,825 residents, 4% of them in Delta. 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 Delta walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Delta, 44% 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, Delta ranks 205th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Delta by bike?

By bike, 89% of Delta residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 96% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 98% an elementary school. On foot, 44% 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 Delta?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 45% of Delta residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 44% on foot and 89% 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 Delta a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 44% of residents reach a grocery store, 46% a pharmacy, 98% a park and 75% 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 Delta compare with communities of a similar size?

In Delta, 44% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 43% in St. John's, 44% in Thunder Bay, 42% in Brantford and 33% in Chatham-Kent.

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

Delta in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: Greater Vancouver Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5915011
Residents in 2021: 108,455
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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