## [1] "Updated on 2020-08-07 08:17:00"
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:
- The starting point of each line
- The ending point of each line
- 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)
- The number of people who traveled along this line in both directions for a given time period.
- The length of the line in Euclidean distance (as the crow flies, not through the existing travel network).
- 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.
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

Glasgow City

Birmingham

Camden and City of London

Wandsworth

Tower Hamlets

Ealing

Lewisham and Southwark

Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton

Harrow and Hillingdon

Hackney and Newham

Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames

Redbridge and Waltham Forest

Staffordshire CC

Greater Manchester North East

Greater Manchester South West

Leeds

Greater Manchester South East

Brent

Barking & Dagenham and Havering

Tyneside

Hertfordshire

Warwickshire

South Nottinghamshire

Liverpool

Lambeth

Nottingham

Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham

Leicestershire CC and Rutland

South and West Derbyshire

Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

Wolverhampton

East Merseyside

South Hampshire

Dudley

Greater Manchester North West

Bexley and Greenwich

Berkshire

Mid Lancashire

Bristol, City of

West Surrey

Calderdale and Kirklees

Bradford

Haringey and Islington

Sheffield

North Lanarkshire

Barnet

Walsall

Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham

Solihull

Enfield

Sunderland

Wakefield

Sandwell

Central Hampshire

Devon CC

Durham CC

East Riding of Yorkshire

Leicester

Medium Travel
Stoke-on-Trent

East Surrey

Coventry

South Lanarkshire

South Teesside

Cheshire East

Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees

Edinburgh, City of

Kingston upon Hull, City of

Kent Thames Gateway

Buckinghamshire CC

Bromley

Chorley and West Lancashire

Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire

Essex Thames Gateway

Derby

Plymouth

Medway

North Nottinghamshire

Southampton

Worcestershire

Belfast

East Derbyshire

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan

Portsmouth

Cheshire West and Chester

Central Bedfordshire

Croydon

Gwent Valleys

North Hampshire

Wirral

West Essex

Oxfordshire

Blackpool

Norwich and East Norfolk

East Lancashire

Cambridgeshire CC

Sefton

Mid Kent

West Northamptonshire

Warrington

Thurrock

Northumberland

Breckland and South Norfolk

West Kent

Heart of Essex

North Yorkshire CC

Central Valleys

Monmouthshire and Newport

Dorset CC

West Sussex (North East)

East Lothian and Midlothian

Milton Keynes

Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot

Flintshire and Wrexham

Suffolk

Blackburn with Darwen

Peterborough

Lincolnshire

Least Travel
East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh & Lomond

Swansea

Somerset

Shropshire CC

Telford and Wrekin

Antrim and Newtownabbey

Bedford

Darlington

Bournemouth and Poole

Lancaster and Wyre

Essex Haven Gateway

North Northamptonshire

Perth & Kinross and Stirling

Brighton and Hove

Ards and North Down

Torbay

Clackmannanshire and Fife

West Sussex (South West)

West Lothian

North and North East Lincolnshire

Southend-on-Sea

East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland

Falkirk

East Sussex CC

Wiltshire

York

North and West Norfolk

Mid and East Antrim

South West Wales

South Ayrshire

Lisburn and Castlereagh

East Kent

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon

East Cumbria

Gloucestershire

West Cumbria

Newry, Mourne and Down

Swindon

Conwy and Denbighshire

Gwynedd

Isle of Anglesey

Angus and Dundee City

Mid Ulster

Causeway Coast and Glens

Derry City and Strabane

Powys

Herefordshire, County of

Dumfries & Galloway

Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey

Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty

Fermanagh and Omagh

Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Isle of Wight

Scottish Borders

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
