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Getting around Melfort: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
5,955
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
45%
typical walk to a grocery store
16 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
193rd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Melfort

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 Melfort

The share of Melfort 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 store45%typical 16 min100%typical 5 min
Pharmacy72%typical 10 min>99%typical 3 min
Park>99%typical 5 min>99%typical 2 min
Elementary school81%typical 10 min>99%typical 4 min

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

Melfort in numbers

45% of Melfort residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 37% across Saskatchewan and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store23%45%66%89%16 min
Pharmacy54%72%84%99%10 min
Park>99%>99%>99%100%5 min
Elementary school52%81%96%>99%10 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Saskatchewan and Canada

PlaceMelfortSaskatchewanCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store45%37%45%193rd of 1,00011th of 24 in Saskatchewan
Pharmacy72%42%51%26th of 1,0001st of 24 in Saskatchewan
Park>99%75%82%35th of 1,0003rd of 24 in Saskatchewan
Elementary school81%54%55%21st of 1,0003rd of 24 in Saskatchewan
Share of Melfort residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min45%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min45%

Melfort Saskatchewan

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Melfort 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
Bay Roberts5,97424%
Saint-Césaire5,97253%
Melfort5,95545%
Niverville5,94726%
Peace River C5,9470%

More places across the Melfort area

The Melfort area has 35,428 residents, 17% of them in Melfort. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store31%
  • Café23%
  • Bakery20%
  • Library29%
  • Playground31%
  • Childcare27%
  • Community centre32%
  • Clinic35%

Other communities in the Melfort 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 Melfort walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Melfort, 45% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 37% across Saskatchewan and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Melfort ranks 193rd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Melfort by bike?

By bike, 100% of Melfort residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, over 99% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and over 99% an elementary school. On foot, 45% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 5 min by bike and 16 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 Melfort a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 45% of residents reach a grocery store, 72% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 81% 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 Melfort compare with communities of a similar size?

In Melfort, 45% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 24% in Bay Roberts, 53% in Saint-Césaire, 26% in Niverville and 0% in Peace River C.

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

Melfort in brief

Province
Saskatchewan
Census subdivision code
4714051
Residents in 2021
5,955
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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