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Getting around La Pocatière: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
4,078
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
63%
typical walk to a grocery store
11 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
46th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across La Pocatière

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 La Pocatière

The share of La Pocatière 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 store63%typical 11 min89%typical 5 min63%typical 11 min
Pharmacy75%typical 9 min92%typical 4 min75%typical 9 min
Park82%typical 8 min90%typical 4 min83%typical 8 min
Elementary school46%typical 16 min74%typical 7 min47%typical 16 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.

La Pocatière in numbers

63% of La Pocatière residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store45%63%82%90%11 min
Pharmacy56%75%88%97%9 min
Park70%82%87%95%8 min
Elementary school20%46%64%80%16 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceLa PocatièreQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store63%49%45%46th of 1,00011th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy75%49%51%21st of 1,0009th of 259 in Quebec
Park82%83%82%343rd of 1,00099th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school46%53%55%305th of 1,00078th of 259 in Quebec
Share of La Pocatière residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min63%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min63%

La Pocatière Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to La Pocatière 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
Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare4,09016%
Carleton-sur-Mer4,08120%
La Pocatière4,07863%
Prescott4,0782%
Victoria, Subd. B4,07711%

More places across the Kamouraska RCM census division

The Kamouraska RCM census division has 21,307 residents, 19% of them in La Pocatière. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store15%
  • Café26%
  • Bakery18%
  • Library32%
  • Playground22%
  • Childcare17%
  • Community centre7%
  • Clinic17%

Other communities in the Kamouraska RCM 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 La Pocatière walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In La Pocatière, 63% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, La Pocatière ranks 46th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around La Pocatière by bike?

By bike, 89% of La Pocatière residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 92% a pharmacy, 90% a park and 74% an elementary school. On foot, 63% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 5 min by bike and 11 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 La Pocatière?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 63% of La Pocatière residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 63% on foot and 89% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 11 min by transit and 11 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is La Pocatière a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 63% of residents reach a grocery store, 75% a pharmacy, 82% 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 La Pocatière compare with communities of a similar size?

In La Pocatière, 63% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 16% in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, 20% in Carleton-sur-Mer, 2% in Prescott and 11% in Victoria, Subd. B.

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

La Pocatière in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Kamouraska RCM
Census subdivision code
2414085
Residents in 2021
4,078
Data published
8 October 2026
Provinces: Natural Earth.

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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