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Getting around Saint-Paul: walking, cycling and transit times

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

residents in 2021
6,566
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
0%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
926th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Saint-Paul

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 Saint-Paul

The share of Saint-Paul 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 store0%over an hour12%typical 24 min0%over an hour
Pharmacy32%typical 22 min68%typical 10 min32%typical 22 min
Park74%typical 5 min87%typical 2 min74%typical 5 min
Elementary school20%typical 35 min37%typical 19 min20%typical 35 min

Transit timetables cover the areas where 75% of Saint-Paul 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.

Saint-Paul in numbers

0% of Saint-Paul 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

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store0%0%0%1%over an hour
Pharmacy18%32%48%66%22 min
Park68%74%80%84%5 min
Elementary school11%20%28%44%35 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceSaint-PaulQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store0%49%45%926th of 1,000248th of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy32%49%51%430th of 1,000129th of 259 in Quebec
Park74%83%82%418th of 1,000123rd of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school20%53%55%612th of 1,000196th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Saint-Paul residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min0%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min0%

Saint-Paul Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Saint-Paul 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
Cornwall, Prince Edward Island6,57427%
Gimli6,56931%
Saint-Paul6,5660%
Devon6,54531%
Stephenville6,54055%

More places across the Joliette RCM census division

The Joliette RCM census division has 71,124 residents, 9% of them in Saint-Paul. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store53%
  • Café35%
  • Bakery27%
  • Library20%
  • Playground39%
  • Childcare27%
  • Community centre28%
  • Clinic15%

Other communities in the Joliette RCM 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 Saint-Paul walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Saint-Paul, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Saint-Paul ranks 926th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Saint-Paul by bike?

By bike, 12% of Saint-Paul residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 68% a pharmacy, 87% a park and 37% an elementary school. On foot, 0% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 24 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 Saint-Paul?

By transit at the weekday morning peak, 0% of Saint-Paul residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, against 0% on foot and 12% 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 75% of residents live; for the rest, the time shown is the walk.

Is Saint-Paul a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 0% of residents reach a grocery store, 32% a pharmacy, 74% a park and 20% 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 Saint-Paul compare with communities of a similar size?

In Saint-Paul, 0% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 27% in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, 31% in Gimli, 31% in Devon and 55% in Stephenville.

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

Saint-Paul in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Joliette RCM
Census subdivision code
2461005
Residents in 2021
6,566
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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