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Getting around Leamington: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
29,680
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
42%
typical walk to a grocery store
19 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
233rd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Leamington

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 Leamington

The share of Leamington 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 store42%typical 19 min74%typical 7 min42%typical 19 min
Pharmacy45%typical 17 min73%typical 7 min45%typical 17 min
Park69%typical 8 min82%typical 3 min69%typical 8 min
Elementary school31%typical 21 min75%typical 8 min31%typical 21 min

Transit timetables cover the areas where 80% of Leamington 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.

Leamington in numbers

42% of Leamington residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store28%42%53%71%19 min
Pharmacy29%45%62%71%17 min
Park57%69%74%80%8 min
Elementary school15%31%50%71%21 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceLeamingtonOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store42%48%45%233rd of 1,00048th of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy45%60%51%228th of 1,00070th of 269 in Ontario
Park69%87%82%453rd of 1,000104th of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school31%60%55%470th of 1,000127th of 269 in Ontario
Share of Leamington residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min42%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min42%

Leamington Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Leamington 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
Alma30,33143%
Orangeville30,16744%
Sainte-Julie30,04555%
Saint-Constant29,95433%
Leamington29,68042%

More places across the Essex County census division

The Essex County census division has 422,860 residents, 7% of them in Leamington. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store51%
  • Café45%
  • Bakery34%
  • Library18%
  • Playground73%
  • Childcare25%
  • Community centre18%
  • Clinic32%

Other communities in the Essex County 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 Leamington walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Leamington, 42% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Leamington ranks 233rd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Leamington by bike?

By bike, 74% of Leamington residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 73% a pharmacy, 82% a park and 75% an elementary school. On foot, 42% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 7 min by bike and 19 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 Leamington?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 42% of Leamington residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 42% on foot and 74% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 19 min by transit and 19 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk. Transit timetables cover the areas where 80% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Leamington a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 42% of residents reach a grocery store, 45% a pharmacy, 69% a park and 31% 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 Leamington compare with communities of a similar size?

In Leamington, 42% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 43% in Alma, 44% in Orangeville, 55% in Sainte-Julie and 33% in Saint-Constant.

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

Leamington in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Essex County
Census subdivision code
3537003
Residents in 2021
29,680
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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