How walkable is Pont-Viau, Laval?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Pont-Viau has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot. It is the most walkable of the 4 neighbourhoods ranked in Laval, which scores 60 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
419 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Pont-Viau. The nearest grocery is about 7 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, parks and schools. It is weakest for books & libraries.
Groceries
- Marché Chez Soso, 9 min
- Dépanneur Rimal 2000, 11 min
Restaurants & bars
- Aux Caprices De Tous, 7 min
- Pizza Rapide, 8 min
Shopping
- Aménagement ST, 8 min
- Animo etc Concorde, 8 min
Coffee
- Café Concorde, 9 min
- Tim Hortons, 14 min
Banks
- Money Mart, 15 min
- Banque Laurentienne, 16 min
Parks
- Parc Robert-L'Herbier, 7 min
- Parc Henri-Dunant, 8 min
Schools
- CPE Brins d'Eveil, 4 min
- École Primaire Eureka, 9 min
Books & libraries
- Librairie Chrétienne CLC Canada, 30 min
- Librairie la Maison de l'Education, 30 min
Culture & entertainment
- Cinémas Guzzo, 24 min
- Cité historia, Musé Du sault-au-Récolet, Meunier, 25 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Pont-Viau, Laval at 45.5717, -73.6803. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 80 street intersections per km², and blocks average 111 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Pont-Viau, Laval
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.1 km around the centre of Pont-Viau, Laval. Rings mark 550 m and 1.1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Laval
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Laval-des-Rapides | 2.3 km | 69 |
| Saint-Vincent-de-Paul | 5.1 km | 46 |
| Vimont | 5.2 km | 59 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Laval page.
Questions about walking in Pont-Viau, Laval
Is Pont-Viau walkable?
Yes. Pont-Viau in Laval has a walkability score of 72 out of 100 across the 1.1 km around its centre, which makes it very walkable: most errands can be done on foot.
Is Pont-Viau more walkable than the rest of Laval?
Pont-Viau is more walkable than Laval as a whole: it scores 72, against 60 for the 5 km around Laval's centre. It is the most walkable of the 4 neighbourhoods ranked in Laval on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Laval?
Of the 4 Laval neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Pont-Viau (72), Laval-des-Rapides (69) and Vimont (59).
How is the walkability score of Pont-Viau calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Pont-Viau it is the average of 55 points spread evenly across the 1.1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap. It measures what is within a walk, not what the walk is like: pavements, traffic, safety, hills and heat are not part of the score.
This page is generated from open map data with a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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