--- title: "Pont-Viau, Laval walkability score: 72/100 · How Walkable" description: "Pont-Viau in Laval scores 72/100 for walkability (Very Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Laval." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/pont-viau updated: 2026-10-22 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ --- 1. [Cities](https://howwalkable.com/cities) 2. [Canada](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada) 3. [Laval](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval) 4. Pont-Viau # How walkable is Pont-Viau, Laval? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 72 out of 100: Very Walkable Most errands can be accomplished on foot. * #1 of 4 in Laval * 60 Laval overall * 80 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=45.57173&lon=-73.68025&q=Pont-Viau%2C%20Laval) ## 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 2.6 of 3 points * Metro Plus de la Concorde, 7 min * Marché Chez Soso, 9 min * Dépanneur Rimal 2000, 11 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.5 of 3 points * Délices des Îles Marché et Casse-croûte, 7 min * Aux Caprices De Tous, 7 min * Pizza Rapide, 8 min ### Shopping 1.8 of 2 points * Million Tapis et Tuiles - La Référence en Revêtements de Sol depuis 1939, 6 min * Aménagement ST, 8 min * Animo etc Concorde, 8 min ### Coffee 1.7 of 2 points * Déjeuner Au P'Tit Doré, 7 min * Café Concorde, 9 min * Tim Hortons, 14 min ### Banks 0.7 of 1 point * Caisse Desjardins, 10 min * Money Mart, 15 min * Banque Laurentienne, 16 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Parc Roger-Provost, 2 min * Parc Robert-L'Herbier, 7 min * Parc Henri-Dunant, 8 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * École Saint-Gilles, Édifice 1, 2 min * CPE Brins d'Eveil, 4 min * École Primaire Eureka, 9 min ### Books & libraries 0.1 of 1 point * Pontius Livres Books, 25 min * Librairie Chrétienne CLC Canada, 30 min * Librairie la Maison de l'Education, 30 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.6 of 1 point * Amusement 222, 11 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1.1 km around the centre of Pont-Viau. 61% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 33, is 700 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/canada/laval/pont-viau.svg?v=32066d79bb42) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/laval-des-rapides) | 2.3 km | 69 | | [Saint-Vincent-de-Paul](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/saint-vincent-de-paul) | 5.1 km | 46 | | [Vimont](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/vimont) | 5.2 km | 59 | See every neighbourhood ranked on the [Laval page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval#neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata. Ask about walking anywhere in ChatGPT with the [How Walkable app](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6accc634bcf8819189c1bcaf0e227f0f), for example "How walkable is Pont-Viau, Laval?" Scores, rankings and text by How Walkable (https://howwalkable.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); credit How Walkable and link to this page when reusing them.