Getting around Nanaimo H: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 4,291
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 12%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 700th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Nanaimo H

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 Nanaimo H

The share of Nanaimo H residents within a trip of each place, and the typical trip, by each way of getting there the free map offers.

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	7%over an hour	11%typical 54 min	7%over an hour
Pharmacy	6%over an hour	6%over an hour	6%over an hour
Park	46%typical 12 min	68%typical 6 min	46%typical 12 min
Elementary school	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	12%over an hour	13%typical 54 min	12%over an hour
Pharmacy	7%over an hour	8%over an hour	7%over an hour
Park	61%typical 12 min	76%typical 6 min	61%typical 12 min
Elementary school	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	13%over an hour	14%typical 54 min	13%over an hour
Pharmacy	8%over an hour	8%over an hour	8%over an hour
Park	71%typical 12 min	85%typical 6 min	71%typical 12 min
Elementary school	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	14%over an hour	30%typical 54 min	14%over an hour
Pharmacy	9%over an hour	23%over an hour	9%over an hour
Park	79%typical 12 min	91%typical 6 min	79%typical 12 min
Elementary school	0%over an hour	0%over an hour	0%over an hour

Transit timetables cover the areas where 85% of Nanaimo H 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.

Nanaimo H in numbers

12% of Nanaimo H residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across British Columbia and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place	10 min	15 min	20 min	30 min	Typical walk
Grocery store	7%	12%	13%	14%	over an hour
Pharmacy	6%	7%	8%	9%	over an hour
Park	46%	61%	71%	79%	12 min
Elementary school	0%	0%	0%	0%	over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside British Columbia and Canada

Place	Nanaimo H	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	12%	48%	45%	700th of 1,00095th of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	7%	48%	51%	782nd of 1,000106th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	61%	86%	82%	506th of 1,00092nd of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	0%	58%	55%	938th of 1,000149th of 155 in British Columbia

Share of Nanaimo H residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store

Nanaimo H British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Nanaimo H 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.

Community	Residents	Grocery within 15 min
Beresford (town)	4,294	34%
Nanaimo H	4,291	12%
Warner County No. 5	4,290	0%
Caraquet	4,285	31%
Cumberland, Subd. D	4,283	9%

More places across the Nanaimo Regional District census division

The Nanaimo Regional District census division has 170,367 residents, 3% of them in Nanaimo H. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store32%
Café35%
Bakery17%
Library8%
Playground48%
Childcare32%
Community centre18%
Clinic19%

Other communities in the Nanaimo Regional District 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 Nanaimo H walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Nanaimo H, 12% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across British Columbia and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Nanaimo H ranks 700th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Nanaimo H by bike?

By bike, 13% of Nanaimo H residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 8% a pharmacy, 76% a park and 0% an elementary school. On foot, 12% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 54 min by bike and over an hour 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 Nanaimo H?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 12% of Nanaimo H residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 12% on foot and 13% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes over an hour by transit and over an hour on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk. Transit timetables cover the areas where 85% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Nanaimo H a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 12% of residents reach a grocery store, 7% a pharmacy, 61% a park and 0% 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 Nanaimo H compare with communities of a similar size?

In Nanaimo H, 12% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 34% in Beresford (town), 0% in Warner County No. 5, 31% in Caraquet and 9% in Cumberland, Subd. D.

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

Nanaimo H in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: Nanaimo Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5921036
Residents in 2021: 4,291
Data published: 8 October 2026

Provinces: Natural Earth.

Elsewhere

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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