A geospatial data company analyzed smartphone location data for more than 45 million devices across the country to determine how well Americans are listening to stay-at-home orders. For the most part, they aren’t.

Apparently stay at home means something different to more than half of Beaver County residents.

According to smartphone data analyzed by geospatial data company Safegraph, just 46.5 percent of Beaver County residents stayed home on April 18. A higher percent of residents stay home each day, the data shows.

It’s a similar figure in Lawrence County, where 45.1 percent of residents stayed home.

In a pre-COVID-19 world, about one-in-four residents of both counties would stay home on any given day — around 25 percent.

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In the days leading up to the state’s decision to close all public schools, more people were going out — about one in five stayed home.

But that number jumped slightly after Beaver County received word of its first case of the novel coronavirus on March 16. The next day — St. Patrick’s Day, typically a day for partying at local bars — about 27 percent of residents stayed home.

That number has grown steadily ever since.

There aren’t a lot of choices for where Pennsylvanians can go. On March 28, Gov. Tom Wolf issued a stay-at-home order for Beaver County.

An order closing all non-essential businesses close statewide went into effect on March 23. That order caused a jump in the percentage of residents who were staying home from 33.9 percent on the Friday he issued the order to 39.1 percent on the first day of the order.

The data indicates that about half of Beaver County residents are either still working or just can’t stop going to the grocery store.

A higher percent of Pennsylvanians are staying home than in 43 other states, according to the company. On April 18 — the most recent day that Safegraph had data available — 47.4 percent of Pennsylvanians stayed home.

New Jersey and New York typically are the states with the highest percentage of people staying home. But even those states see almost half of residents leaving their home.