--- title: "Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval walkability score: 46/100" description: "Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Laval scores 46/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent): what's within a walk and how it compares with Laval." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/saint-vincent-de-paul 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. Saint-Vincent-de-Paul # How walkable is Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1.6 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the least walkable of the 4 neighbourhoods ranked in Laval, which scores 60 as a whole. 46 out of 100: Car-Dependent Most errands require a car. * #4 of 4 in Laval * 60 Laval overall * 38 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=45.61417&lon=-73.65701&q=Saint-Vincent-de-Paul%2C%20Laval) ## What's within walking distance 158 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. The nearest grocery is about 22 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping and parks. It is weakest for groceries, coffee, banks and books & libraries. ### Groceries 0.3 of 3 points * IGA, 22 min ### Restaurants & bars 1.3 of 3 points * Charcuterie du Terroir, 4 min * Charcuterie Bollée, 14 min * Restaurant La Bi-Coq au Soleil, 19 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * I S O-c E, 4 min * Tempehine, 5 min * Uniprix Clinique - Suzanne Guirguis, 7 min ### Coffee 0.1 of 2 points * Tim Hortons, 24 min ### Banks 0.1 of 1 point * RBC Royal Bank ATM, 25 min * Distributeur de billets CIBC, 25 min * Banque Nationale, 28 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Parc Collin, 2 min * Parc Jean-XXIII, 5 min * Centre de la nature, 12 min ### Schools 0.6 of 1 point * Collège Laval, 12 min * École primaire Saint-Vincent, 12 min * Educational Center La Releve, 26 min ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 0.8 of 1 point * Theatre Marcellin-Champagnat, 15 min * Observatoire astronomique Jean-Marc-Richard, 25 min Measured from the mapped centre of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval at 45.6142, -73.6570. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route. ## Street layout Within 800 m of the centre there are about 45 street intersections per km², and blocks average 139 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 4%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests. ## Walkability across Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval ![Walkability scores across the 1.6 km around the centre of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. 17% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 5, is 1 km to the north.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/canada/laval/saint-vincent-de-paul.svg?v=c9d5c2315d8d) Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1.6 km around the centre of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval. Rings mark 800 m and 1.6 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets. ## Nearby neighbourhoods in Laval | Neighbourhood | Distance | Score | | ----------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----- | | [Pont-Viau](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/pont-viau) | 5.1 km | 72 | | [Vimont](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/vimont) | 5.5 km | 59 | | [Laval-des-Rapides](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval/laval-des-rapides) | 7.3 km | 69 | See every neighbourhood ranked on the [Laval page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/laval#neighbourhoods). ## Questions about walking in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Laval ### Is Saint-Vincent-de-Paul walkable? Not very. Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Laval has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1.6 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. ### Is Saint-Vincent-de-Paul more walkable than the rest of Laval? Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is less walkable than Laval as a whole: it scores 46, against 60 for the 5 km around Laval's centre. It is the least 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 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul 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 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul it is the average of 47 points spread evenly across the 1.6 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 Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 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.