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Getting around Sackville: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
6,099
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
29%
typical walk to a grocery store
21 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
445th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Sackville

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 Sackville

The share of Sackville 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 store29%typical 21 min65%typical 10 min29%typical 21 min
Pharmacy26%typical 24 min62%typical 11 min26%typical 24 min
Park58%typical 14 min84%typical 5 min58%typical 13 min
Elementary school22%typical 34 min57%typical 14 min22%typical 34 min

Transit timetables cover the areas where 91% of Sackville 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.

Sackville in numbers

29% of Sackville residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 21% across New Brunswick and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store14%29%47%69%21 min
Pharmacy13%26%38%60%24 min
Park42%58%69%83%14 min
Elementary school8%22%31%47%34 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside New Brunswick and Canada

PlaceSackvilleNew BrunswickCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store29%21%45%445th of 1,00012th of 48 in New Brunswick
Pharmacy26%21%51%536th of 1,00014th of 48 in New Brunswick
Park58%46%82%535th of 1,00017th of 48 in New Brunswick
Elementary school22%24%55%586th of 1,00016th of 48 in New Brunswick
Share of Sackville residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min29%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min29%

Sackville New Brunswick

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Sackville 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
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel6,1218%
L'Ange-Gardien6,1020%
Southern Gulf Islands6,10113%
Sackville6,09929%
Willow Creek No. 266,0810%

More places across the Westmorland census division

The Westmorland census division has 163,576 residents, 4% of them in Sackville. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store39%
  • Café39%
  • Bakery24%
  • Library7%
  • Playground45%
  • Childcare37%
  • Community centre19%
  • Clinic20%

Other communities in the Westmorland 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 Sackville walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Sackville, 29% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 21% across New Brunswick and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Sackville ranks 445th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Sackville by bike?

By bike, 65% of Sackville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 62% a pharmacy, 84% a park and 57% an elementary school. On foot, 29% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 10 min by bike and 21 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 Sackville?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 29% of Sackville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 29% on foot and 65% by bike. These times include the walk to and from the stops and the wait. The typical trip takes 21 min by transit and 21 min on foot. Where transit would be slower than walking, the time shown is the walk. Transit timetables cover the areas where 91% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Sackville a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 29% of residents reach a grocery store, 26% a pharmacy, 58% a park and 22% 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 Sackville compare with communities of a similar size?

In Sackville, 29% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 8% in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, 0% in L'Ange-Gardien, 13% in Southern Gulf Islands and 0% in Willow Creek No. 26.

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

Sackville in brief

Province
New Brunswick
Census division
Westmorland
Census subdivision code
1307009
Residents in 2021
6,099
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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