--- title: "Bells Corners, Ottawa walkability score: 65/100" description: "Bells Corners in Ottawa scores 65/100 for walkability (Somewhat Walkable). What's within a walk, its street layout, and how it compares with the rest of Ottawa." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/bells-corners 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. [Ottawa](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa) 4. Bells Corners # How walkable is Bells Corners, Ottawa? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 65 out of 100: Somewhat Walkable Some errands can be accomplished on foot. * #14 of 20 tied, in Ottawa * 70 Ottawa overall * 84 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=45.32008&lon=-75.82967&q=Bells%20Corners%2C%20Ottawa) ## 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 2.3 of 3 points * FreshCo, 9 min * Loblaws Robertson Road, 10 min * TATKA, 17 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.7 of 3 points * Subway, 6 min * Welcome Back Chinese Restaurant, 6 min * McDonald's, 7 min ### Shopping 2.0 of 2 points * DeFalco's For Brewers and Winemakers, 3 min * Circle K, 5 min * Bells Corners Mini Mart, 5 min ### Coffee 1.7 of 2 points * McCafé, 7 min * Second Cup, 9 min * Tim Hortons, 10 min ### Banks 1.0 of 1 point * Alterna Savings - Bells Corners, 6 min * CIBC, 6 min * TD Bank - Help & Advice Centre, 11 min ### Parks 1.0 of 1 point * Williams Park, 3 min * Harwick Park, 5 min * Quinpool Park, 8 min ### Schools 1.0 of 1 point * Our Lady of Peace School, 5 min * Bells Corners Co-Operative Nursery School, 9 min * Bells Corners Public School, 10 min ### Books & libraries 1.0 of 1 point * Ottawa Public Library, 6 min ### Culture & entertainment 0.1 of 1 point * KingDom Theatre, 20 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 900 m around the centre of Bells Corners. 54% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 18, is 900 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/canada/ottawa/bells-corners.svg?v=7b763c208195) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#tunneys-pasture) | 12 km | 65 | | [Hintonburg](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#hintonburg) | 12.3 km | 85 | | [Little Italy](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#little-italy) | 13 km | 85 | | [LeBreton Flats](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/lebreton-flats) | 14 km | 62 | | [Old Ottawa South](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#old-ottawa-south) | 14 km | 92 | | [The Glebe](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#the-glebe) | 14.2 km | 90 | | [Centretown](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#centretown) | 15.1 km | 98 | | [Heron Gate](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods#heron-gate) | 15.4 km | 66 | See [all 20 neighbourhoods of Ottawa ranked by walkability](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/ottawa/neighbourhoods). ## 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](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 Bells Corners, Ottawa?" 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.