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Getting around Marmora and Lake: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
4,267
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
31%
typical walk to a grocery store
49 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
423rd

26% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Marmora and Lake

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 Marmora and Lake

The share of Marmora and Lake 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 store31%typical 49 min36%typical 31 min
Pharmacy31%typical 45 min39%typical 29 min
Park31%typical 39 min40%typical 24 min
Elementary school30%typical 48 min36%typical 31 min

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

Marmora and Lake in numbers

31% of Marmora and Lake 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 store18%31%35%41%49 min
Pharmacy20%31%35%44%45 min
Park22%31%38%46%39 min
Elementary school19%30%35%39%48 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceMarmora and LakeOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store31%48%45%423rd of 1,000101st of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy31%60%51%471st of 1,000130th of 269 in Ontario
Park31%87%82%750th of 1,000212th of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school30%60%55%490th of 1,000136th of 269 in Ontario

26% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Share of Marmora and Lake residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min31%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min31%

Marmora and Lake Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Marmora and Lake 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
New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island4,2774%
Wainwright No. 614,2760%
Marmora and Lake4,26731%
Altona4,26744%
Central Okanagan4,2580%

More places across the Hastings County census division

The Hastings County census division has 145,746 residents, 3% of them in Marmora and Lake. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store40%
  • Café30%
  • Bakery21%
  • Library11%
  • Playground47%
  • Childcare22%
  • Community centre24%
  • Clinic24%

Other communities in the Hastings 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 Marmora and Lake walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Marmora and Lake, 31% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Marmora and Lake ranks 423rd of 1,000 communities. 26% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Can you get around Marmora and Lake by bike?

By bike, 36% of Marmora and Lake residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 39% a pharmacy, 40% a park and 36% an elementary school. On foot, 31% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 31 min by bike and 49 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 Marmora and Lake a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 31% of residents reach a grocery store, 31% a pharmacy, 31% a park and 30% 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 Marmora and Lake compare with communities of a similar size?

In Marmora and Lake, 31% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 4% in New Glasgow, Prince Edward Island, 0% in Wainwright No. 61, 44% in Altona and 0% in Central Okanagan.

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

Marmora and Lake in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Hastings County
Census subdivision code
3512046
Residents in 2021
4,267
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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