Description

COVID-19 immediately changed the types of destinations our residents visit. The Google Mobility Reports show the 7-day moving average (calculated by SEMCOG) in the rate of visits to destinations like recreation and retail, grocery stores and pharmacies, transit stations, parks, and workplaces. The rates of change are created with aggregated, anonymized sets of data from users who have turned on the Location History setting, which is off by default. The median daily number of visits over the first five weeks of year 2020 serve as the baseline. Note that while the other categories measure the change in total visitors, the Residential category shows a change in duration. Since people already spend much of the day at places of residence, the percent change will not be as large as the other categories.

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