How walkable is Bells Corners, Ottawa?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Bells Corners has a walkability score of 65 out of 100 across the 900 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot. It is the joint 14th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Ottawa, with 2 others, which scores 70 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
251 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Bells Corners. The nearest grocery is about 9 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for shopping, banks, parks, schools and books & libraries. It is weakest for culture & entertainment.
Groceries
- Loblaws Robertson Road, 10 min
- TATKA, 17 min
Restaurants & bars
- Welcome Back Chinese Restaurant, 6 min
- McDonald's, 7 min
Shopping
- Circle K, 5 min
- Bells Corners Mini Mart, 5 min
Coffee
- Second Cup, 9 min
- Tim Hortons, 10 min
Banks
- CIBC, 6 min
- TD Bank - Help & Advice Centre, 11 min
Parks
- Harwick Park, 5 min
- Quinpool Park, 8 min
Schools
- Bells Corners Co-Operative Nursery School, 9 min
- Bells Corners Public School, 10 min
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- Canadian Showtime Chorus, 21 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Bells Corners, Ottawa at 45.3201, -75.8297. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 60 street intersections per km², and blocks average 111 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 1%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Bells Corners, Ottawa
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 900 m around the centre of Bells Corners, Ottawa. Rings mark 450 m and 900 m from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Ottawa
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Tunney's Pasture | 12 km | 65 |
| Hintonburg | 12.3 km | 85 |
| Little Italy | 13 km | 85 |
| LeBreton Flats | 14 km | 62 |
| Old Ottawa South | 14 km | 92 |
| The Glebe | 14.2 km | 90 |
| Centretown | 15.1 km | 98 |
| Heron Gate | 15.4 km | 66 |
See all 20 neighbourhoods of Ottawa ranked by walkability.
Questions about walking in Bells Corners, Ottawa
Is Bells Corners walkable?
Partly. Bells Corners in Ottawa has a walkability score of 65 out of 100 across the 900 m around its centre, which makes it somewhat walkable: some errands can be done on foot.
Is Bells Corners more walkable than the rest of Ottawa?
Bells Corners is less walkable than Ottawa as a whole: it scores 65, against 70 for the 5 km around Ottawa's centre. It is the joint 14th most walkable of the 20 neighbourhoods ranked in Ottawa, with 2 others on How Walkable.
What are the most walkable neighbourhoods in Ottawa?
Of the 20 Ottawa neighbourhoods on How Walkable, the most walkable are Centretown (98), ByWard Market (94) and Golden Triangle (93).
How is the walkability score of Bells Corners 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 Bells Corners it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 900 m 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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