Getting around Invermere: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 3,917
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 46%
typical walk to a grocery store: 16 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 170th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Invermere

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 Invermere

The share of Invermere 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	34%typical 16 min	63%typical 8 min	34%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	34%typical 15 min	63%typical 7 min	34%typical 15 min
Park	60%typical 8 min	90%typical 3 min	60%typical 8 min
Elementary school	36%typical 13 min	81%typical 7 min	36%typical 13 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	46%typical 16 min	81%typical 8 min	46%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	52%typical 15 min	84%typical 7 min	52%typical 15 min
Park	80%typical 8 min	93%typical 3 min	80%typical 8 min
Elementary school	60%typical 13 min	93%typical 7 min	60%typical 13 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	62%typical 16 min	91%typical 8 min	63%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	62%typical 15 min	92%typical 7 min	62%typical 15 min
Park	82%typical 8 min	93%typical 3 min	82%typical 8 min
Elementary school	77%typical 13 min	94%typical 7 min	77%typical 13 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	76%typical 16 min	94%typical 8 min	76%typical 16 min
Pharmacy	77%typical 15 min	94%typical 7 min	77%typical 15 min
Park	90%typical 8 min	100%typical 3 min	90%typical 8 min
Elementary school	91%typical 13 min	97%typical 7 min	91%typical 13 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.

Invermere in numbers

46% of Invermere 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	34%	46%	62%	76%	16 min
Pharmacy	34%	52%	62%	77%	15 min
Park	60%	80%	82%	90%	8 min
Elementary school	36%	60%	77%	91%	13 min

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

Place	Invermere	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	46%	48%	45%	170th of 1,00033rd of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	52%	48%	51%	162nd of 1,00019th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	80%	86%	82%	356th of 1,00067th of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	60%	58%	55%	144th of 1,00029th of 155 in British Columbia

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

Invermere British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Invermere 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
De Salaberry	3,918	17%
Invermere	3,917	46%
Ormstown	3,917	48%
Kamloops 1	3,915	13%
North Norfolk	3,915	21%

More places across the East Kootenay Regional District census division

The East Kootenay Regional District census division has 65,896 residents, 6% of them in Invermere. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store31%
Café30%
Bakery14%
Library17%
Playground27%
Childcare20%
Community centre18%
Clinic21%

Other communities in the East Kootenay 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 Invermere walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Invermere, 46% 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, Invermere ranks 170th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Invermere by bike?

By bike, 81% of Invermere residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 84% a pharmacy, 93% a park and 93% an elementary school. On foot, 46% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 8 min by bike and 16 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 Invermere?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 46% of Invermere residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 46% on foot and 81% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 16 min by transit and 16 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Invermere a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 46% of residents reach a grocery store, 52% a pharmacy, 80% a park and 60% 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 Invermere compare with communities of a similar size?

In Invermere, 46% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 17% in De Salaberry, 48% in Ormstown, 13% in Kamloops 1 and 21% in North Norfolk.

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

Invermere in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: East Kootenay Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5901039
Residents in 2021: 3,917
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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