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Getting around Tweed: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
6,067
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
23%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
547th

16% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

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Municipal boundaries: Statistics Canada.

Travel times across Tweed

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 Tweed

The share of Tweed 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 store23%over an hour29%over an hour
Pharmacy23%over an hour29%over an hour
Park34%typical 24 min51%typical 14 min
Elementary school22%over an hour33%typical 34 min

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

Tweed in numbers

23% of Tweed residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store14%23%27%31%over an hour
Pharmacy16%23%26%32%over an hour
Park27%34%43%54%24 min
Elementary school12%22%28%35%over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Ontario and Canada

PlaceTweedOntarioCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store23%48%45%547th of 1,000142nd of 269 in Ontario
Pharmacy23%60%51%579th of 1,000174th of 269 in Ontario
Park34%87%82%725th of 1,000200th of 269 in Ontario
Elementary school22%60%55%595th of 1,000164th of 269 in Ontario

16% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Share of Tweed residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min23%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min23%

Tweed Ontario

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Tweed 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
Sackville6,09929%
Willow Creek No. 266,0810%
Tweed6,06723%
Algoma, Unorganized, North Part6,0504%
Oliver Paipoonge6,0354%

More places across the Hastings County census division

The Hastings County census division has 145,746 residents, 4% of them in Tweed. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store40%
  • Café30%
  • Bakery21%
  • Library11%
  • Playground47%
  • Childcare22%
  • Community centre24%
  • Clinic24%

Other communities in the Hastings County 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 Tweed walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Tweed, 23% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 48% across Ontario and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Tweed ranks 547th of 1,000 communities. 16% of residents live in blocks with no everyday place of any kind within an hour’s walk, often in rural areas: the shares and the rank count them as out of reach.

Can you get around Tweed by bike?

By bike, 29% of Tweed residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 29% a pharmacy, 51% a park and 33% an elementary school. On foot, 23% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes over an hour 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.

Is Tweed a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 23% of residents reach a grocery store, 23% a pharmacy, 34% a park and 22% 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 Tweed compare with communities of a similar size?

In Tweed, 23% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 29% in Sackville, 0% in Willow Creek No. 26, 4% in Algoma, Unorganized, North Part and 4% in Oliver Paipoonge.

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

Tweed in brief

Province
Ontario
Census division
Hastings County
Census subdivision code
3512030
Residents in 2021
6,067
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; 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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