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Getting around St. Stephen: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
4,510
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
11%
typical walk to a grocery store
31 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
715th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across St. Stephen

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 St. Stephen

The share of St. Stephen 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 store11%typical 31 min60%typical 12 min
Pharmacy39%typical 20 min64%typical 9 min
Park85%typical 10 min99%typical 4 min
Elementary school54%typical 14 min94%typical 6 min

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

St. Stephen in numbers

11% of St. Stephen 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 store5%11%26%49%31 min
Pharmacy17%39%50%64%20 min
Park58%85%92%98%10 min
Elementary school29%54%81%97%14 min

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

PlaceSt. StephenNew BrunswickCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store11%21%45%715th of 1,00023rd of 48 in New Brunswick
Pharmacy39%21%51%321st of 1,0006th of 48 in New Brunswick
Park85%46%82%313th of 1,0005th of 48 in New Brunswick
Elementary school54%24%55%191st of 1,0002nd of 48 in New Brunswick
Share of St. Stephen residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min11%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min11%

St. Stephen New Brunswick

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to St. Stephen 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
Saint-Agapit4,52646%
North Okanagan C4,5111%
St. Stephen4,51011%
Nanaimo B4,5003%
Melville4,49353%

More places across the Charlotte census division

The Charlotte census division has 26,015 residents, 17% of them in St. Stephen. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store17%
  • Café19%
  • Bakery16%
  • Library11%
  • Playground18%
  • Childcare3%
  • Community centre19%
  • Clinic5%

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 St. Stephen walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In St. Stephen, 11% 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, St. Stephen ranks 715th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around St. Stephen by bike?

By bike, 60% of St. Stephen residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 64% a pharmacy, 99% a park and 94% an elementary school. On foot, 11% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 12 min by bike and 31 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 St. Stephen a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 11% of residents reach a grocery store, 39% a pharmacy, 85% a park and 54% 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 St. Stephen compare with communities of a similar size?

In St. Stephen, 11% 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 Saint-Agapit, 1% in North Okanagan C, 3% in Nanaimo B and 53% in Melville.

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

St. Stephen in brief

Province
New Brunswick
Census division
Charlotte
Census subdivision code
1302037
Residents in 2021
4,510
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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