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Getting around Lacombe: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
13,396
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
23%
typical walk to a grocery store
24 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
542nd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Lacombe

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 Lacombe

The share of Lacombe 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 store23%typical 24 min97%typical 8 min
Pharmacy32%typical 22 min98%typical 8 min
Park>99%typical 3 min100%typical 1 min
Elementary school72%typical 11 min97%typical 4 min

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

Lacombe in numbers

23% of Lacombe residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store12%23%37%68%24 min
Pharmacy14%32%44%68%22 min
Park99%>99%>99%>99%3 min
Elementary school48%72%83%93%11 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Alberta and Canada

PlaceLacombeAlbertaCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store23%40%45%542nd of 1,00062nd of 118 in Alberta
Pharmacy32%51%51%434th of 1,00061st of 118 in Alberta
Park>99%85%82%35th of 1,0008th of 118 in Alberta
Elementary school72%53%55%58th of 1,0006th of 118 in Alberta
Share of Lacombe residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min23%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min23%

Lacombe Alberta

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Lacombe 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
Lacombe13,39623%
The Nation13,35011%
South Glengarry13,3307%
Val-des-Monts13,3289%
Saint-Amable13,32224%

More places across the Red Deer area

The Red Deer area has 213,470 residents, 6% of them in Lacombe. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store49%
  • Café33%
  • Bakery21%
  • Library17%
  • Playground74%
  • Childcare29%
  • Community centre24%
  • Clinic20%

Other communities in the Red Deer 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 Lacombe walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Lacombe, 23% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Lacombe ranks 542nd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Lacombe by bike?

By bike, 97% of Lacombe residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 98% a pharmacy, 100% a park and 97% an elementary school. On foot, 23% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 8 min by bike and 24 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 Lacombe a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 23% of residents reach a grocery store, 32% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 72% 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 Lacombe compare with communities of a similar size?

In Lacombe, 23% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 11% in The Nation, 7% in South Glengarry, 9% in Val-des-Monts and 24% in Saint-Amable.

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

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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