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Getting around Ramara: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
10,377
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
7%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
776th

10% 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 Ramara

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 Ramara

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

PlaceOn footBy bikeBy transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store7%over an hour10%typical 55 min7%over an hour
Pharmacy8%over an hour11%typical 52 min8%over an hour
Park32%typical 27 min52%typical 14 min32%typical 27 min
Elementary school6%over an hour17%typical 34 min6%over an hour

Transit timetables cover the areas where 39% of Ramara 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.

Ramara in numbers

7% of Ramara 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 store5%7%9%10%over an hour
Pharmacy7%8%8%10%over an hour
Park20%32%42%52%27 min
Elementary school4%6%6%10%over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceRamaraOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store7%48%45%776th of 1,000225th of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy8%60%51%769th of 1,000227th of 269 in Ontario
Park32%87%82%744th of 1,000209th of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school6%60%55%816th of 1,000229th of 269 in Ontario

10% 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 Ramara residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min7%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min7%

Ramara Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Ramara 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
Yellowhead County10,4261%
Grey Highlands10,42418%
Queens10,42212%
Morinville10,38541%
Ramara10,3777%

More places across the Simcoe County census division

The Simcoe County census division has 533,169 residents, 2% of them in Ramara. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store40%
  • Café36%
  • Bakery24%
  • Library11%
  • Playground60%
  • Childcare31%
  • Community centre13%
  • Clinic19%

Other communities in the Simcoe 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 Ramara walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Ramara, 7% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Ramara ranks 776th of 1,000 communities. 10% 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 Ramara by bike?

By bike, 10% of Ramara residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 11% a pharmacy, 52% a park and 17% an elementary school. On foot, 7% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 55 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 Ramara?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 7% of Ramara residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 7% on foot and 10% 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 39% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Ramara a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 7% of residents reach a grocery store, 8% a pharmacy, 32% a park and 6% 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 Ramara compare with communities of a similar size?

In Ramara, 7% 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 Yellowhead County, 18% in Grey Highlands, 12% in Queens and 41% in Morinville.

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

Ramara in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Simcoe County
Census subdivision code
3543019
Residents in 2021
10,377
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; 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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