Social distancing in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic

This page shows results using colocation data from the Facebook Data for Good project to quantify and map social distancing in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the colocation data to derive estimates for the average number of contacts per person in a given region with people in another region. Baselines for percentage change maps are calculated as the mean of the first three weeks of the metric plotted.

Maps

External-region contacts only
  • Percentage change from baseline colocations per LGA
  • Average colocations per LGA
    • Internal + external-region contacts
  • Percentage change from baseline colocations per LGA
  • Average colocations per LGA
    • Mixing proportion
    This shows the proportion of all contacts that are taking place with external regions, relative to all regions (internal + external). Lower values indicate a greater propensity for people to "stay home".
  • Percentage change in mixing proportions per LGA
  • Mixing proportions per LGA

    • The figure below shows the results at state level, using external contacts only.



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