How walkable is Mississauga?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Mississauga has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 5 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the 12th most walkable of the 14 cities ranked in Canada.
What's within walking distance of the centre
899 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of central Mississauga. The nearest grocery is about 2 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for groceries, restaurants & bars, shopping, coffee, banks, parks, books & libraries and culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Rabba Fine Foods, 6 min
- Coles, 13 min
Restaurants & bars
- Anze's Italian Grill House, 1 min
- MR ZAGROS, 2 min
Shopping
- Decora Events, 2 min
- Morales Cosmetics, 3 min
Coffee
- Tim Hortons, 2 min
- Second Cup, 3 min
Banks
- Scotiabank, 4 min
- TD Canada Trust Branch & ATM, 8 min
Parks
- Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Garden, 3 min
- Living Arts Park, 6 min
Schools
- Fairview Public School, 14 min
- Best Brains Learning Center, 14 min
Books & libraries
- Nora Trims Her Lamp, 6 min
- Indigo, 12 min
Culture & entertainment
- SaugaLive, 5 min
- Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, 6 min
Measured from the centre at 43.5867, -79.6459, the point near Mississauga's middle with the most places in walking range. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 62 street intersections per km², and blocks average 114 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
How far walkability reaches
Mississauga's score of 55 is the average across the 5 km around its centre, the point with the most everyday places within a walk. Walkability averages 77 within 1 km of the centre, 62 from 1 to 3 km out and 47 from 3 to 5 km out. 24% of the sampled area scores 70 or more, where most errands can be done on foot. Walkability falls off steeply away from the centre, so check a specific address on the map.
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point, 1 km from its neighbours, across the 5 km around central Mississauga. Rings mark 1, 3 and 5 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
| Area | Score | Scoring 70+ |
|---|---|---|
| Centre | 97 | 100% |
| Within 1 km | 77 | 71% |
| 1 to 3 km out | 62 | 23% |
| 3 to 5 km out | 47 | 17% |
Nearby cities
| City | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Toronto, Canada | 25 km | 82 |
| Vaughan, Canada | 31 km | 47 |
| Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | 40 km | 64 |
| London, Ontario, Canada | 144 km | 54 |
| Cleveland, United States | 285 km | 62 |
Questions about walking in Mississauga
Is Mississauga a walkable city?
Partly. Mississauga has a walkability score of 55 out of 100 across the 5 km around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. Its centre scores 97. The score covers about 80 km² around the busiest point rather than the whole city, and suburbs further out are usually less walkable, so check a specific address on the map. It ranks 12th of 14 cities in Canada and joint 520th of 690 worldwide on How Walkable.
What is the most walkable city in Canada?
Vancouver is the most walkable of the 14 cities ranked in Canada, with a score of 83. Mississauga ranks 12th with 55.
How does Mississauga compare with nearby cities?
Mississauga sits between its nearest ranked neighbours: it scores 55, against Toronto (82, 25 km away), Vaughan (47, 31 km away) and Hamilton, Ontario (64, 40 km away).
Which part of Mississauga is most walkable?
Mississauga's most walkable area is its centre, the point near the middle of the city with the most places in walking range, which scores 97. Walkability averages 77 within 1 km of it. Beyond 2.5 km, it holds up best to the north-west (averaging 61) and falls most to the south-west (38).
Why is Mississauga's score different from its Walk Score?
Walk Score's city scores average every neighbourhood within the city limits, weighted by where people live, so they count outer suburbs that the 5 km around Mississauga's centre leaves out, and they are usually lower. Address by address the two agree closely: across 46 addresses in the United States and Canada, How Walkable's scores were 5.9 points from Walk Score's on average, as the accuracy study at howwalkable.com/accuracy shows.
How is Mississauga's walkability score calculated?
For Mississauga it is the average of 83 points spaced 1 km apart within 5 km of its busiest point, leaving out water and land without streets; 20 of them score 70 or more. Each point counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and loses up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long, using open map data from Overture Maps (release 2026-09-23.1) 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. City position and population from GeoNames.
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