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Getting around Stephenville: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
6,540
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
55%
typical walk to a grocery store
15 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
83rd

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Stephenville

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 Stephenville

The share of Stephenville 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 store55%typical 15 min87%typical 6 min
Pharmacy51%typical 15 min96%typical 6 min
Park46%typical 16 min87%typical 6 min
Elementary school29%typical 21 min80%typical 11 min

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

Stephenville in numbers

55% of Stephenville residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 25% across Newfoundland and Labrador and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store32%55%65%86%15 min
Pharmacy30%51%69%91%15 min
Park27%46%64%86%16 min
Elementary school15%29%47%75%21 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada

PlaceStephenvilleNewfoundland and LabradorCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store55%25%45%83rd of 1,0001st of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Pharmacy51%26%51%174th of 1,0003rd of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Park46%44%82%622nd of 1,00014th of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Elementary school29%19%55%493rd of 1,0006th of 21 in Newfoundland and Labrador
Share of Stephenville residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min55%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min55%

Stephenville Newfoundland and Labrador

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Stephenville 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
Devon6,54531%
Stephenville6,54055%
East Kootenay C6,5364%
Barrington6,52312%
Port-Cartier6,51649%

More places across the Stephenville area

The Stephenville area has 19,253 residents, 34% of them in Stephenville. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store38%
  • Café16%
  • Bakery10%
  • Library13%
  • Playground10%
  • Childcare15%
  • Community centre9%
  • Clinic12%

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 Stephenville walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Stephenville, 55% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 25% across Newfoundland and Labrador and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Stephenville ranks 83rd of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Stephenville by bike?

By bike, 87% of Stephenville residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 96% a pharmacy, 87% a park and 80% an elementary school. On foot, 55% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 6 min by bike and 15 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 Stephenville a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 55% of residents reach a grocery store, 51% a pharmacy, 46% a park and 29% 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 Stephenville compare with communities of a similar size?

In Stephenville, 55% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 31% in Devon, 4% in East Kootenay C, 12% in Barrington and 49% in Port-Cartier.

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

Stephenville in brief

Province
Newfoundland and Labrador
Census subdivision code
1004019
Residents in 2021
6,540
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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