Getting around Rivière-Rouge: walking and cycling times
à portée’s map shows the trip on foot and by bike from every populated block in Rivière-Rouge to the nearest grocery store, pharmacy, school, park and other everyday places. It is free, with no account.
- residents in 2021
- 4,631
- within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
- 15%
- typical walk to a grocery store
- 56 min
- of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
- 671st
33% 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.
Travel times across Rivière-Rouge
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.
A free plus account adds a mode and a time limit for each place.
Getting around Rivière-Rouge
The share of Rivière-Rouge 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 11%typical 56 min | 34%typical 21 min |
| Pharmacy | 15%over an hour | 33%typical 40 min |
| Park | 29%typical 34 min | 46%typical 11 min |
| Elementary school | 7%over an hour | 27%typical 36 min |
| Place | On foot | By bike |
|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 15%typical 56 min | 43%typical 21 min |
| Pharmacy | 22%over an hour | 36%typical 40 min |
| Park | 38%typical 34 min | 53%typical 11 min |
| Elementary school | 12%over an hour | 36%typical 36 min |
| Place | On foot | By bike |
|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 25%typical 56 min | 49%typical 21 min |
| Pharmacy | 30%over an hour | 43%typical 40 min |
| Park | 44%typical 34 min | 58%typical 11 min |
| Elementary school | 20%over an hour | 39%typical 36 min |
| Place | On foot | By bike |
|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 31%typical 56 min | 61%typical 21 min |
| Pharmacy | 34%over an hour | 47%typical 40 min |
| Park | 49%typical 34 min | 63%typical 11 min |
| Elementary school | 28%over an hour | 48%typical 36 min |
Cycling follows the street network, hills included. Within 15 minutes means under 16: times are rounded down to the whole minute.
Rivière-Rouge in numbers
15% of Rivière-Rouge 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
| Place | 10 min | 15 min | 20 min | 30 min | Typical walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 11% | 15% | 25% | 31% | 56 min |
| Pharmacy | 15% | 22% | 30% | 34% | over an hour |
| Park | 29% | 38% | 44% | 49% | 34 min |
| Elementary school | 7% | 12% | 20% | 28% | over an hour |
Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada
| Place | Rivière-Rouge | Quebec | Canada | Rank among the 1,000 communities with a page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grocery store | 15% | 49% | 45% | 671st of 1,000209th of 259 in Quebec |
| Pharmacy | 22% | 49% | 51% | 590th of 1,000175th of 259 in Quebec |
| Park | 38% | 83% | 82% | 697th of 1,000217th of 259 in Quebec |
| Elementary school | 12% | 53% | 55% | 726th of 1,000224th of 259 in Quebec |
33% 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.
Rivière-Rouge Quebec
Communities of a similar size
The communities closest to Rivière-Rouge 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Asphodel-Norwood | 4,658 | 35% |
| Antigonish | 4,656 | 19% |
| Rivière-Rouge | 4,631 | 15% |
| Saint-Denis-de-Brompton | 4,594 | 4% |
| Annapolis, Subd. B | 4,587 | 21% |
More places across the Antoine-Labelle RCM census division
The Antoine-Labelle RCM census division has 36,462 residents, 13% of them in Rivière-Rouge. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:
- Convenience store32%
- Café14%
- Bakery10%
- Library21%
- Playground18%
- Childcare6%
- Community centre11%
- Clinic12%
Other communities in the Antoine-Labelle RCM area
Beside each community is the share of its residents who can reach a grocery store within a 15-minute walk.
- Mont-Laurier33%
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 Rivière-Rouge walkable?
One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Rivière-Rouge, 15% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Rivière-Rouge ranks 671st of 1,000 communities. 33% 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 Rivière-Rouge by bike?
By bike, 43% of Rivière-Rouge residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 36% a pharmacy, 53% a park and 36% an elementary school. On foot, 15% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 21 min by bike and 56 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 Rivière-Rouge a 15-minute city?
It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 15% of residents reach a grocery store, 22% a pharmacy, 38% a park and 12% 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 Rivière-Rouge compare with communities of a similar size?
In Rivière-Rouge, 15% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 35% in Asphodel-Norwood, 19% in Antigonish, 4% in Saint-Denis-de-Brompton and 21% in Annapolis, Subd. B.
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
Rivière-Rouge in brief
- Province
- Quebec
- Census division
- Antoine-Labelle RCM
- Census subdivision code
- 2479037
- Residents in 2021
- 4,631
- Data published
- 8 October 2026
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