Getting around Kent: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 6,300
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: 476th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Kent

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 Kent

The share of Kent 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	14%typical 21 min	51%typical 10 min	14%typical 21 min
Pharmacy	15%typical 21 min	62%typical 10 min	15%typical 21 min
Park	60%typical 7 min	83%typical 3 min	60%typical 7 min
Elementary school	36%typical 18 min	53%typical 10 min	36%typical 18 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	27%typical 21 min	66%typical 10 min	27%typical 21 min
Pharmacy	30%typical 21 min	68%typical 10 min	30%typical 21 min
Park	70%typical 7 min	87%typical 3 min	70%typical 7 min
Elementary school	46%typical 18 min	67%typical 10 min	46%typical 18 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	49%typical 21 min	68%typical 10 min	49%typical 21 min
Pharmacy	48%typical 21 min	70%typical 10 min	48%typical 21 min
Park	74%typical 7 min	95%typical 3 min	74%typical 7 min
Elementary school	52%typical 18 min	67%typical 10 min	52%typical 18 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	65%typical 21 min	76%typical 10 min	65%typical 21 min
Pharmacy	68%typical 21 min	76%typical 10 min	68%typical 21 min
Park	86%typical 7 min	98%typical 3 min	86%typical 7 min
Elementary school	66%typical 18 min	74%typical 10 min	66%typical 18 min

Transit timetables cover the areas where 91% of Kent residents live. For the others, a transit trip is the walk.

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.

Kent in numbers

27% of Kent 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	14%	27%	49%	65%	21 min
Pharmacy	15%	30%	48%	68%	21 min
Park	60%	70%	74%	86%	7 min
Elementary school	36%	46%	52%	66%	18 min

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

Place	Kent	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	27%	48%	45%	476th of 1,00076th of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	30%	48%	51%	474th of 1,00068th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	70%	86%	82%	447th of 1,00084th of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	46%	58%	55%	299th of 1,00056th of 155 in British Columbia

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

Kent British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Kent 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
North Middlesex	6,307	36%
St. Paul County No. 19	6,306	2%
Charlemagne	6,302	20%
Kent	6,300	27%
Pointe-Calumet	6,281	0%

More places across the Fraser Valley Regional District census division

The Fraser Valley Regional District census division has 324,005 residents, 2% of them in Kent. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store45%
Café43%
Bakery24%
Library12%
Playground73%
Childcare51%
Community centre18%
Clinic33%

Other communities in the Fraser Valley 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 Kent walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Kent, 27% 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, Kent ranks 476th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Kent by bike?

By bike, 66% of Kent residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 68% a pharmacy, 87% a park and 67% an elementary school. On foot, 27% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 10 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 Kent?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 27% of Kent residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 27% on foot and 66% 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. Transit timetables cover the areas where 91% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Kent a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 27% of residents reach a grocery store, 30% a pharmacy, 70% a park and 46% 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 Kent compare with communities of a similar size?

In Kent, 27% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 36% in North Middlesex, 2% in St. Paul County No. 19, 20% in Charlemagne and 0% in Pointe-Calumet.

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

Kent in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: Fraser Valley Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5909032
Residents in 2021: 6,300
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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