## [1] "Updated on 2020-07-17 09:02:04"

Produced by WorldPop (www.worldpop.org) at the University of Southampton, UK

Reading Guide

Data

This report is based on mobility data produced for the Disease Prevention Maps tools by the Facebook Data for Good Program (https://dataforgood.fb.com/tools/disease-prevention-maps/), with access facilitated by the COVID-19 Mobility Data Network (https://www.covid19mobility.org/).

These data represent people who use Facebook in the UK and have location services enabled. Data are aggregated at a 600m x 600m sized tiles and vectors (lines) are drawn connecting all areas to each other. These lines provide data in both directions (going from area A to B and from area B to A) We are provided:

  1. The starting point of each line
  2. The ending point of each line
  3. The number of people who traveled along this line in both directions for the 45 days preceding the collection of the data (noted on the bottom of every set of figures)
  4. The number of people who traveled along this line in both directions for a given time period.
  5. The length of the line in Euclidean distance (as the crow flies, not through the existing travel network).
  6. Data are aggregated in 8 hour blocks, one of these blocks for the UK is from 2100 to 0500. We treat this as belonging to the date that 2100 is in.

Figures - UK Level

Percent Change in Travel Map - The percent change in travel within and between counties in the UK. It is important to note here that some counties show up in one map and not the other. As people stop moving, and especially if they don’t leave their homes, they no longer contribute to FB movement data so we are unable to capture any information from them.

Percent change in total number of trips compared to baseline - The total number of trips originating and ending in the region for which we have data, minus the average number of trips originating from the same area for the 45 days preceding the start of data collection.

Total distance travelled - The total distance of trips originating and ending in the region for which we have data.

Figures - County Level

Local Travel Network - A map of the region for which we have data showing the top locations of travel to and from that county.

Percent change in total number of trips compared to baseline - The total number of trips originating and ending in the region for which we have data minus the average number of trips originating from the same area for the 45 days preceding the start of data collection.

Total distance travelled - The total distance of trips originating and ending in the region for which we have data.

Pointers on evaluating the data

  • It’s best to look at percent change in trips and total distance traveled as two views of a “mobility” metric. For example, if the number of trips goes up but the total distance traveled goes down, it likely means that people are moving a bit more but mainly going shorter distances, perhaps even just exercising or walking around the neighborhood.
  • When looking at the travel network remember that people will live at the boundaries of the area of interest, therefore, it may just be short distance movements that are resulting in people traveling from one location to another. Long distance travel connections are more difficult to rationalize and warrant further investigation.
  • You’ll often see an uptick in movement and total distance travelled on the weekends. This is generally normal behavior, though deviation from this during lock down measures should be evaluated.
  • Keep an eye on the Y axis, it may be log scaled to better show the data. The labels are correct but rates of change are more extreme than they appear.

Key Takeaways

  • A general upward trend in movement is evident across many parts of the UK, but not all. There are some new travel patterns for the regions with most travel that should be evaluated to ensure that the networks make sense and are expected.

UK Summary

City Specific Analysis

Most Travel

Manchester

Birmingham

Glasgow City

Camden and City of London

Wandsworth

Tower Hamlets

Harrow and Hillingdon

Ealing

Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton

Redbridge and Waltham Forest

Hackney and Newham

Staffordshire CC

Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames

Lewisham and Southwark

Greater Manchester North East

Greater Manchester South East

Greater Manchester South West

Leeds

Barking & Dagenham and Havering

Brent

Warwickshire

Tyneside

Hertfordshire

South Nottinghamshire

Lambeth

Liverpool

South and West Derbyshire

Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham

Wolverhampton

Nottingham

East Merseyside

Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Dudley

Bexley and Greenwich

Greater Manchester North West

South Hampshire

Leicestershire CC and Rutland

Berkshire

West Surrey

Mid Lancashire

Haringey and Islington

Sunderland

Solihull

Bristol, City of

Walsall

Bradford

Calderdale and Kirklees

Barnet

Enfield

Sheffield

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham

North Lanarkshire

Sandwell

Durham CC

Wakefield

Central Hampshire

Stoke-on-Trent

Devon CC

East Riding of Yorkshire

Medium Travel

Coventry

East Surrey

Kingston upon Hull, City of

Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees

South Teesside

South Lanarkshire

Cheshire East

Kent Thames Gateway

Buckinghamshire CC

Leicester

Bromley

North Nottinghamshire

Essex Thames Gateway

Chorley and West Lancashire

Derby

Plymouth

Medway

Worcestershire

Southampton

East Derbyshire

Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire

Cheshire West and Chester

Croydon

Edinburgh, City of

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan

Portsmouth

Central Bedfordshire

Gwent Valleys

North Hampshire

West Essex

Oxfordshire

East Lancashire

Wirral

Thurrock

Mid Kent

Sefton

West Northamptonshire

Belfast

Blackpool

Norwich and East Norfolk

Warrington

Cambridgeshire CC

West Kent

Northumberland

Breckland and South Norfolk

Heart of Essex

Central Valleys

North Yorkshire CC

Dorset CC

Monmouthshire and Newport

West Sussex (North East)

Milton Keynes

Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot

Flintshire and Wrexham

East Lothian and Midlothian

Blackburn with Darwen

Suffolk

Peterborough

Lincolnshire

Least Travel

Shropshire CC

Swansea

Telford and Wrekin

Somerset

Lancaster and Wyre

Bedford

Darlington

East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond

North Northamptonshire

Bournemouth and Poole

Essex Haven Gateway

Antrim and Newtownabbey

Perth & Kinross and Stirling

Brighton and Hove

North and North East Lincolnshire

Torbay

West Sussex (South West)

Clackmannanshire and Fife

Southend-on-Sea

Ards and North Down

West Lothian

East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland

Falkirk

Wiltshire

East Sussex CC

North and West Norfolk

York

East Kent

South West Wales

South Ayrshire

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Lisburn and Castlereagh

Mid and East Antrim

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

East Cumbria

Gloucestershire

West Cumbria

Swindon

Gwynedd

Conwy and Denbighshire

Newry, Mourne and Down

Isle of Anglesey

Angus and Dundee City

Powys

Mid Ulster

Causeway Coast and Glens

Derry City and Strabane

Herefordshire, County of

Dumfries & Galloway

Fermanagh and Omagh

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Scottish Borders

Isle of Wight

Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey

Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty

Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae and Argyll & Bute

Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)

Orkney Islands

Shetland Islands

Regional Specific Analysis

Most Travel

London

South East

East of England

Medium Travel

East Midlands

West Midlands

Yorkshire and The Humber

Least Travel

North West

South West

North East