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Getting around Grand Falls: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
5,220
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
45%
typical walk to a grocery store
17 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
183rd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Grand Falls

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 Grand Falls

The share of Grand Falls residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

PlaceOn footBy bike
Grocery store45%typical 17 min68%typical 8 min
Pharmacy33%typical 25 min59%typical 14 min
Park60%typical 8 min83%typical 3 min
Elementary school33%typical 25 min60%typical 12 min

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

Grand Falls in numbers

45% of Grand Falls 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

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store31%45%59%70%17 min
Pharmacy22%33%41%63%25 min
Park53%60%68%84%8 min
Elementary school21%33%43%64%25 min

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

PlaceGrand FallsNew BrunswickCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store45%21%45%183rd of 1,0004th of 48 in New Brunswick
Pharmacy33%21%51%410th of 1,0009th of 48 in New Brunswick
Park60%46%82%518th of 1,00016th of 48 in New Brunswick
Elementary school33%24%55%447th of 1,00011th of 48 in New Brunswick
Share of Grand Falls residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min45%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min45%

Grand Falls New Brunswick

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Grand Falls 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
Grand Falls5,22045%
Annapolis, Subd. C5,2180%
Inverness, Subd. A5,20712%
Marystown5,20413%
Espanola5,18526%

More places across the Victoria census division

The Victoria census division has 18,312 residents, 29% of them in Grand Falls. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store29%
  • Café15%
  • Bakery1%
  • Library9%
  • Playground9%
  • Childcare9%
  • Community centre19%
  • Clinic12%

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 Grand Falls walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Grand Falls, 45% 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, Grand Falls ranks 183rd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Grand Falls by bike?

By bike, 68% of Grand Falls residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 59% a pharmacy, 83% a park and 60% an elementary school. On foot, 45% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 8 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.

Is Grand Falls a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 45% of residents reach a grocery store, 33% a pharmacy, 60% a park and 33% 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 Grand Falls compare with communities of a similar size?

In Grand Falls, 45% 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 Annapolis, Subd. C, 12% in Inverness, Subd. A, 13% in Marystown and 26% in Espanola.

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

Grand Falls in brief

Province
New Brunswick
Census division
Victoria
Census subdivision code
1312019
Residents in 2021
5,220
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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