How walkable is Vaughan Metropolitan Centre?
By Oscar Higson-Spence. Updated
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car. It is the more walkable of the 2 neighbourhoods ranked in Vaughan, which scores 47 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
218 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. The nearest grocery is about 17 minutes away on foot. It earns full or nearly full points for culture & entertainment. It is weakest for groceries, parks, schools and books & libraries.
Groceries
- Walmart, 25 min
Restaurants & bars
- YYZVN The Bistro - Eat. Drink. Connect., 10 min
- Boom Breakfast & Co. Vaughan, 10 min
Shopping
- IKEA Vaughan, 6 min
- Bath City, 11 min
Coffee
- Balzac's, 15 min
- Starbucks, 17 min
Banks
- BMO Bank of Montreal, 12 min
- TD Bank, 13 min
Parks
Schools
Books & libraries
Culture & entertainment
- Smart VMC, 10 min
- Venu Event Space, 23 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre at 43.7896, -79.5294. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 38 street intersections per km², and blocks average 107 m long. Sparser streets or longer blocks reduce the score by 3%, since they make walks longer than the straight-line distance suggests.
Walkability across Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Nearby neighbourhoods in Vaughan
| Neighbourhood | Distance | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Concord | 2.7 km | 42 |
See every neighbourhood ranked on the Vaughan page.
Questions about walking in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
Is Vaughan Metropolitan Centre walkable?
Not very. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre has a walkability score of 46 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it car-dependent: most errands require a car.
Is Vaughan Metropolitan Centre more walkable than the rest of Vaughan?
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is about as walkable as Vaughan as a whole: it scores 46, against 47 for the 5 km around Vaughan's centre. It is the more walkable of the 2 neighbourhoods ranked in Vaughan on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre 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 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre it is the average of 49 points spread evenly across the 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. Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.
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