--- title: "Vaughan Metropolitan Centre walkability score: 46/100" description: "Vaughan Metropolitan Centre scores 46/100 for walkability (Car-Dependent): what's within a walk and how it compares with Vaughan." url: https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/vaughan/vaughan-metropolitan-centre 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. [Vaughan](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/vaughan) 4. Vaughan Metropolitan Centre # How walkable is Vaughan Metropolitan Centre? By [Oscar Higson-Spence](https://howwalkable.com/about#author). Updated 22 October 2026 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. 46 out of 100: Car-Dependent Most errands require a car. * #1 of 2 in Vaughan * 47 Vaughan overall * 48 at the centre [Open on the map](https://howwalkable.com/?lat=43.78964&lon=-79.52939&q=Vaughan%20Metropolitan%20Centre%2C%20Vaughan) ## 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 0.9 of 3 points * Mapletri Supermarket, 17 min * Walmart, 25 min ### Restaurants & bars 2.0 of 3 points * Boston Pizza, 5 min * YYZVN The Bistro - Eat. Drink. Connect., 10 min * Boom Breakfast & Co. Vaughan, 10 min ### Shopping 1.6 of 2 points * Vahugan Mills, 3 min * IKEA Vaughan, 6 min * Bath City, 11 min ### Coffee 1.2 of 2 points * Millberry Coffee, 10 min * Balzac's, 15 min * Starbucks, 17 min ### Banks 0.7 of 1 point * RBC Royal Bank, 10 min * BMO Bank of Montreal, 12 min * TD Bank, 13 min ### Parks 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Schools 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Books & libraries 0.0 of 1 point * None within a 30 minute walk ### Culture & entertainment 1.0 of 1 point * AMC Interchange 30, 2 min * 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 ![Walkability scores across the 1 km around the centre of Vaughan Metropolitan Centre. 8% of points score 70 or more; the lowest, 8, is 900 m to the south-east.](https://howwalkable.com/maps/canada/vaughan/vaughan-metropolitan-centre.svg?v=f93285418a12) 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](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/vaughan/concord) | 2.7 km | 42 | See every neighbourhood ranked on the [Vaughan page](https://howwalkable.com/cities/canada/vaughan#neighbourhoods). ## 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](https://howwalkable.com/methodology). Places from Overture Maps release 2026-09-23.1. 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