People Movement Index

To help us all understand how we are staying safe, PlaceDashboard’s location insight is tracking the change in movement behaviour patterns in city centres across the UK.

Each week PlaceDashboard is publishing  a people movement index to measure the success of the stay at home government instruction. The base line for the index is Monday 23rd March 2020, with an index number of 100. We forecast the index to significanty fall during the lockdown period and then start to increase and move above the 100 index level as the lockdown is gradually relaxed. We have calculated two distinct behaviour movement indices, ‘Total Movement’ and ‘Walking/Cycling’ which is achieved by isolating devices which are travelling between 3 and 10 miles per hour.

Leeds City Centre

23rd vs 30th March 2020 
Total people index change: Down -50%
Walking movement index change: Down -59%

23rd March vs 6th April 2020 
Total people index change: Down -52%
Walking movement index change: Down -51%

23rd March vs 13th April 2020 
Total people index change: Down -69%
Walking movement index change: Down -76%

23rd March vs 20th April 2020 
Total people index change: Down -49%
Walking movement index change: Down -57%

23rd March vs 27th April 2020 
Total people index change: Down -49%
Walking movement index change: Down -55%

The Covid 19 lockdown started on Monday 23rd March 2020. The PlaceDashboard Total People movement index for 27th April 2020 shows there are -49% less people moving around the city centre of Leeds since the lockdown commenced, compared to -50% less people during the first week of lockdown, this is +1% change in the people movement index.

The volume of walking  has contracted by -55% for the week ending 27th April , compared to -59% for the first week of the lockdown, this is +4% change in the walking index.