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Getting around Woodlands: walking and cycling times

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

residents in 2021
3,797
within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store
1%
of 1,000 communities for groceries on foot
883rd

36% 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 Woodlands

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 Woodlands

The share of Woodlands 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 store1%over an hour28%typical 60 min
Pharmacy0%over an hour0%over an hour
Park27%over an hour29%over an hour
Elementary school21%over an hour40%typical 35 min

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

Woodlands in numbers

1% of Woodlands residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 46% across Manitoba and 45% across Canada.

Residents within a walk of each place

Place10 min15 min20 min30 minTypical walk
Grocery store0%1%4%18%over an hour
Pharmacy0%0%0%0%over an hour
Park24%27%28%29%over an hour
Elementary school10%21%27%39%over an hour

Within a 15-minute walk, beside Manitoba and Canada

PlaceWoodlandsManitobaCanadaRank among the 1,000 communities with a page
Grocery store1%46%45%883rd of 1,00044th of 47 in Manitoba
Pharmacy0%47%51%893rd of 1,00040th of 47 in Manitoba
Park27%76%82%779th of 1,00031st of 47 in Manitoba
Elementary school21%50%55%603rd of 1,00026th of 47 in Manitoba

36% 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 Woodlands residents within each minute’s walk of the nearest grocery store
0%25%50%75%100%0 min5 min10 min15 min20 min25 min30 min1%
0%25%50%75%100%0 min15 min30 min1%

Woodlands Manitoba

Communities of a similar size

The communities closest to Woodlands 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-Ferréol-les-Neiges3,80635%
Claresholm3,80438%
L'Islet3,80323%
Woodlands3,7971%
Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré3,7802%

More places across the Rockwood area

The Rockwood area has 19,749 residents, 19% of them in Woodlands. The share of them within a 15-minute walk of more kinds of place:

  • Convenience store10%
  • Café19%
  • Bakery15%
  • Library15%
  • Playground30%
  • Childcare18%
  • Community centre18%
  • Clinic25%

Other communities in the Rockwood 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 Woodlands walkable?

One measure is the share of residents within a 15-minute walk of everyday places. In Woodlands, 1% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store, compared with 46% across Manitoba and 45% across Canada. On this measure, Woodlands ranks 883rd of 1,000 communities. 36% 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 Woodlands by bike?

By bike, 28% of Woodlands residents reach a grocery store within 15 minutes, 0% a pharmacy, 29% a park and 40% an elementary school. On foot, 1% are within 15 minutes of a grocery store. The typical trip to a grocery store takes 60 min 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 Woodlands a 15-minute city?

It depends on which everyday places you count. Within a 15-minute walk, 1% of residents reach a grocery store, 0% a pharmacy, 27% a park and 21% 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 Woodlands compare with communities of a similar size?

In Woodlands, 1% of residents live within a 15-minute walk of a grocery store; in the communities closest to it in population, the share is 35% in Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges, 38% in Claresholm, 23% in L'Islet and 2% in Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré.

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

Woodlands in brief

Province
Manitoba
Census subdivision code
4614031
Residents in 2021
3,797
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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