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Getting around Lewisporte: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
3,288
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
33%
typical walk to a grocery store
20 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
372nd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Lewisporte

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 Lewisporte

The share of Lewisporte 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 store33%typical 20 min70%typical 9 min
Pharmacy49%typical 16 min80%typical 8 min
Park58%typical 13 min93%typical 5 min
Elementary school41%typical 21 min69%typical 8 min

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

Lewisporte in numbers

33% of Lewisporte residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 25% across Newfoundland and Labrador and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store21%33%51%72%20 min
Pharmacy28%49%72%87%16 min
Park39%58%84%94%13 min
Elementary school22%41%49%65%21 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada

PlaceLewisporteNewfoundland and LabradorCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store33%25%45%372nd of 1,0008th of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Pharmacy49%26%51%186th of 1,0004th of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Park58%44%82%535th of 1,0008th of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Elementary school41%19%55%364th of 1,0003rd of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Share of Lewisporte residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min33%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min33%

Lewisporte Newfoundland and Labrador

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Lewisporte 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
Wellington3,2920%
Atholville3,2903%
Placentia3,28918%
Lewisporte3,28833%
Saint-Isidore3,28626%

More places across the Lewisporte area

The Lewisporte area has 33,940 residents, 10% of them in Lewisporte. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store27%
  • Café12%
  • Bakery3%
  • Library18%
  • Playground8%
  • Childcare2%
  • Community centre10%
  • Clinic7%

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 Lewisporte walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Lewisporte, 33% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 25% across Newfoundland and Labrador and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Lewisporte ranks 372nd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Lewisporte by bike?

By bike, 70% of Lewisporte residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 80% a pharmacy, 93% a park and 69% an elementary school. On foot, 33% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 9 min by bike and 20 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 Lewisporte a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 33% of residents reach a grocery store, 49% a pharmacy, 58% a park and 41% 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 Lewisporte compare with communities of a similar size?

In Lewisporte, 33% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 0% in Wellington, 3% in Atholville, 18% in Placentia and 26% in Saint-Isidore.

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

Lewisporte in brief

Province
Newfoundland and Labrador
Census subdivision code
1008044
Residents in 2021
3,288
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; 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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