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Getting around Sainte-Mélanie: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
3,250
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
29%
typical walk to a grocery store
45 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
452nd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Sainte-Mélanie

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 Sainte-Mélanie

The share of Sainte-Mélanie 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 store29%typical 45 min43%typical 25 min
Pharmacy31%typical 42 min43%typical 23 min
Park36%typical 41 min48%typical 19 min
Elementary school0%over an hour0%typical 55 min

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

Sainte-Mélanie in numbers

29% of Sainte-Mélanie 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 store24%29%31%36%45 min
Pharmacy24%31%34%36%42 min
Park34%36%39%44%41 min
Elementary school0%0%0%0%over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Quebec and Canada

PlaceSainte-MélanieQuebecCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store29%49%45%452nd of 1,000142nd of 259 in Quebec
Pharmacy31%49%51%455th of 1,000136th of 259 in Quebec
Park36%83%82%714th of 1,000221st of 259 in Quebec
Elementary school0%53%55%938th of 1,000245th of 259 in Quebec
Share of Sainte-Mélanie 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%

Sainte-Mélanie Quebec

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Sainte-Mélanie 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
Richmond, Quebec3,25947%
Samson 1373,2520%
Sainte-Mélanie3,25029%
Shuniah3,2470%
Okanagan (Part) 13,2440%

More places across the Joliette RCM census division

The Joliette RCM census division has 71,124 residents, 5% of them in Sainte-Mélanie. 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 Sainte-Mélanie walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Sainte-Mélanie, 29% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 49% across Quebec and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Sainte-Mélanie ranks 452nd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Sainte-Mélanie by bike?

By bike, 43% of Sainte-Mélanie residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 43% a pharmacy, 48% a park and 0% an elementary school. On foot, 29% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 25 min by bike and 45 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 Sainte-Mélanie a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 29% of residents reach a grocery store, 31% a pharmacy, 36% a park and 0% 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 Sainte-Mélanie compare with communities of a similar size?

In Sainte-Mélanie, 29% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 47% in Richmond, Quebec, 0% in Samson 137, 0% in Shuniah and 0% in Okanagan (Part) 1.

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

Sainte-Mélanie in brief

Province
Quebec
Census division
Joliette RCM
Census subdivision code
2461050
Residents in 2021
3,250
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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