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Getting around Strathmore: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
14,339
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
26%
typical walk to a grocery store
30 min
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
505th

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Strathmore

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.

A free plus account adds a mode and a time limit for each place.

Getting around Strathmore

The share of Strathmore 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 store26%typical 30 min81%typical 10 min
Pharmacy37%typical 19 min99%typical 6 min
Park98%typical 3 min>99%typical 1 min
Elementary school60%typical 14 min99%typical 4 min

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

Strathmore in numbers

26% of Strathmore residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store11%26%37%52%30 min
Pharmacy16%37%57%84%19 min
Park90%98%99%>99%3 min
Elementary school34%60%77%84%14 min

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Alberta and Canada

PlaceStrathmoreAlbertaCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store26%40%45%505th of 1,00059th of 118 in Alberta
Pharmacy37%51%51%346th of 1,00051st of 118 in Alberta
Park98%85%82%134th of 1,00034th of 118 in Alberta
Elementary school60%53%55%142nd of 1,00021st of 118 in Alberta
Share of Strathmore residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min26%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min26%

Strathmore Alberta

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Strathmore 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
Lavaltrie14,42532%
Leduc County14,4163%
Pembroke14,36454%
Strathmore14,33926%
High River14,32427%

More places across the Strathmore area

The Strathmore area has 55,784 residents, 26% of them in Strathmore. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store24%
  • Café22%
  • Bakery12%
  • Library20%
  • Playground42%
  • Childcare22%
  • Community centre22%
  • Clinic13%

Other communities in the Strathmore 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 Strathmore walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Strathmore, 26% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 40% across Alberta and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Strathmore ranks 505th of 1,000 communities.

Can you get around Strathmore by bike?

By bike, 81% of Strathmore residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 99% a pharmacy, over 99% a park and 99% an elementary school. On foot, 26% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 10 min by bike and 30 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 Strathmore a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 26% of residents reach a grocery store, 37% a pharmacy, 98% a park and 60% 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 Strathmore compare with communities of a similar size?

In Strathmore, 26% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 32% in Lavaltrie, 3% in Leduc County, 54% in Pembroke and 27% in High River.

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

Strathmore in brief

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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