Getting around Richmond: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021: 209,937
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store: 66%
typical walk to a grocery store: 12 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot: 35th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Richmond

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 Richmond

The share of Richmond 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	40%typical 12 min	93%typical 6 min	40%typical 12 min
Pharmacy	36%typical 14 min	88%typical 6 min	36%typical 13 min
Park	95%typical 4 min	99%typical 2 min	95%typical 4 min
Elementary school	50%typical 11 min	96%typical 5 min	50%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	66%typical 12 min	98%typical 6 min	70%typical 12 min
Pharmacy	61%typical 14 min	98%typical 6 min	64%typical 13 min
Park	98%typical 4 min	>99%typical 2 min	98%typical 4 min
Elementary school	82%typical 11 min	99%typical 5 min	83%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	85%typical 12 min	>99%typical 6 min	90%typical 12 min
Pharmacy	77%typical 14 min	99%typical 6 min	84%typical 13 min
Park	99%typical 4 min	>99%typical 2 min	99%typical 4 min
Elementary school	95%typical 11 min	>99%typical 5 min	96%typical 11 min

Place	On foot	By bike	By transit, weekday morning peak
Grocery store	98%typical 12 min	>99%typical 6 min	99%typical 12 min
Pharmacy	94%typical 14 min	>99%typical 6 min	98%typical 13 min
Park	>99%typical 4 min	100%typical 2 min	>99%typical 4 min
Elementary school	99%typical 11 min	>99%typical 5 min	99%typical 11 min

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.

Richmond in numbers

66% of Richmond 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	40%	66%	85%	98%	12 min
Pharmacy	36%	61%	77%	94%	14 min
Park	95%	98%	99%	>99%	4 min
Elementary school	50%	82%	95%	99%	11 min

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

Place	Richmond	British Columbia	Canada	Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store	66%	48%	45%	35th of 1,00010th of 155 in British Columbia
Pharmacy	61%	48%	51%	74th of 1,00010th of 155 in British Columbia
Park	98%	86%	82%	98th of 1,00019th of 155 in British Columbia
Elementary school	82%	58%	55%	18th of 1,0005th of 155 in British Columbia

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

Richmond British Columbia

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Richmond 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
Windsor	229,660	46%
Regina	226,404	50%
Oakville	213,759	41%
Richmond	209,937	66%
Richmond Hill	202,022	42%

More places across the Greater Vancouver Regional District census division

The Greater Vancouver Regional District census division has 2,642,825 residents, 8% of them in Richmond. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

Convenience store65%
Café68%
Bakery51%
Library26%
Playground92%
Childcare78%
Community centre45%
Clinic54%

Other communities in the Greater Vancouver 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 Richmond walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Richmond, 66% 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, Richmond ranks 35th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Richmond by bike?

By bike, 98% of Richmond residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 98% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 99% an elementary school. On foot, 66% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 6 min by bike and 12 min 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 Richmond?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 70% of Richmond residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 66% on foot and 98% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 12 min by transit and 12 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk.

Is Richmond a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 66% of residents reach a grocery store, 61% a pharmacy, 98% a park and 82% 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 Richmond compare with communities of a similar size?

In Richmond, 66% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 46% in Windsor, 50% in Regina, 41% in Oakville and 42% in Richmond Hill.

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

Richmond in brief

Province: British Columbia
Census division: Greater Vancouver Regional District
Census subdivision code: 5915015
Residents in 2021: 209,937
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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