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Getting around Plessisville: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
6,414
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
78%
typical walk to a grocery store
10 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
10th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Plessisville

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 Plessisville

The share of Plessisville 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 store78%typical 10 min100%typical 4 min
Pharmacy76%typical 10 min100%typical 5 min
Park>99%typical 5 min100%typical 2 min
Elementary school66%typical 11 min>99%typical 5 min

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

Plessisville in numbers

78% of Plessisville residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store52%78%92%100%10 min
Pharmacy52%76%94%>99%10 min
Park94%>99%100%100%5 min
Elementary school49%66%83%98%11 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlacePlessisvilleQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store78%49%45%10th of 1,0003rd of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy76%49%51%20th of 1,0008th of 259 in Quebec
Park>99%83%82%46th of 1,00017th of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school66%53%55%94th of 1,00020th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Plessisville residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min78%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min78%

Plessisville Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Plessisville 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
Trent Lakes6,4391%
Shannon6,4326%
Plessisville6,41478%
Bonnyville6,40465%
Mont-Joli6,38449%

More places across the L'Érable RCM census division

The L'Érable RCM census division has 23,534 residents, 27% of them in Plessisville. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store31%
  • Café28%
  • Bakery23%
  • Library29%
  • Playground49%
  • Childcare32%
  • Community centre16%
  • Clinic34%

Other communities in the L'Érable RCM 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 Plessisville walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Plessisville, 78% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Plessisville ranks 10th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Plessisville by bike?

By bike, 100% of Plessisville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 100% a pharmacy, 100% a park and over 99% an elementary school. On foot, 78% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 4 min by bike and 10 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 Plessisville a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 78% of residents reach a grocery store, 76% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 66% 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 Plessisville compare with communities of a similar size?

In Plessisville, 78% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 1% in Trent Lakes, 6% in Shannon, 65% in Bonnyville and 49% in Mont-Joli.

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

Plessisville in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
L'Érable RCM
Census subdivision code
2432040
Residents in 2021
6,414
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; 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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