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Getting around Peace River: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
6,619
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
41%
typical walk to a grocery store
20 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
250th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Peace River

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 Peace River

The share of Peace River 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 store41%typical 20 min79%typical 7 min
Pharmacy18%typical 39 min67%typical 13 min
Park88%typical 5 min99%typical 2 min
Elementary school31%over an hour43%typical 21 min

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

Peace River in numbers

41% of Peace River residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store29%41%51%76%20 min
Pharmacy11%18%20%44%39 min
Park80%88%95%98%5 min
Elementary school25%31%34%38%over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Alberta and Canada

PlacePeace RiverAlbertaCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store41%40%45%250th of 1,00026th of 118 in Alberta
Pharmacy18%51%51%652nd of 1,00067th of 118 in Alberta
Park88%85%82%275th of 1,00056th of 118 in Alberta
Elementary school31%53%55%474th of 1,00058th of 118 in Alberta
Share of Peace River residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min41%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min41%

Peace River Alberta

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Peace River 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
Kentville6,63034%
Peace River6,61941%
Wainwright6,60638%
Cornwall, Prince Edward Island6,57427%
Gimli6,56931%

More places across the Grande Prairie area

The Grande Prairie area has 121,167 residents, 5% of them in Peace River. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store46%
  • Café37%
  • Bakery16%
  • Library13%
  • Playground64%
  • Childcare30%
  • Community centre13%
  • Clinic13%

Other communities in the Grande Prairie 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 Peace River walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Peace River, 41% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Peace River ranks 250th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Peace River by bike?

By bike, 79% of Peace River residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 67% a pharmacy, 99% a park and 43% an elementary school. On foot, 41% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 7 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 Peace River a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 41% of residents reach a grocery store, 18% a pharmacy, 88% 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 Peace River compare with communities of a similar size?

In Peace River, 41% 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 Kentville, 38% in Wainwright, 27% in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island and 31% in Gimli.

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

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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