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Getting around Red Lake: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
4,094
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
63%
typical walk to a grocery store
9 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
44th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Red Lake

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 Red Lake

The share of Red Lake 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 store63%typical 9 min73%typical 4 min
Pharmacy22%over an hour43%over an hour
Park74%typical 7 min77%typical 2 min
Elementary school50%typical 15 min72%typical 6 min

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

Red Lake in numbers

63% of Red Lake 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 store54%63%71%72%9 min
Pharmacy12%22%33%43%over an hour
Park68%74%76%79%7 min
Elementary school27%50%69%73%15 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceRed LakeOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store63%48%45%44th of 1,0008th of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy22%60%51%588th of 1,000176th of 269 in Ontario
Park74%87%82%413th of 1,00091st of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school50%60%55%249th of 1,00064th of 269 in Ontario
Share of Red Lake residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min63%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min63%

Red Lake Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Red Lake 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
Thompson-Nicola P (Rivers and the Peaks)4,0985%
Red Lake4,09463%
Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare4,09016%
Carleton-sur-Mer4,08120%
La Pocatière4,07863%

More places across the Kenora District census division

The Kenora District census division has 66,000 residents, 6% of them in Red Lake. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store21%
  • Café16%
  • Bakery4%
  • Library11%
  • Playground16%
  • Childcare14%
  • Community centre17%
  • Clinic18%

Other communities in the Kenora 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 Red Lake walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Red Lake, 63% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Red Lake ranks 44th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Red Lake by bike?

By bike, 73% of Red Lake residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 43% a pharmacy, 77% a park and 72% an elementary school. On foot, 63% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 4 min by bike and 9 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 Red Lake a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 63% of residents reach a grocery store, 22% a pharmacy, 74% a park and 50% 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 Red Lake compare with communities of a similar size?

In Red Lake, 63% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 5% in Thompson-Nicola P (Rivers and the Peaks), 16% in Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, 20% in Carleton-sur-Mer and 63% in La Pocatière.

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

Red Lake in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Kenora District
Census subdivision code
3560042
Residents in 2021
4,094
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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