The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Canadians — either willingly or unwillingly — to spend more time indoors.

But how much time people are spending inside varies depending on where they live, according to data compiled by Environics Analytics.

The company used cellphone location services on apps to measure movement on weekends between Feb. 1 and April 5.

That was used to figure an "out-and-about rate," described as the percentage of devices that were observed more than 100 metres from their inferred home postal code at least three times for 10 minutes each in a day.

In the Guelph area -- which also includes all of Wellington County -- 15.6 per cent of people on the weekend of Apr. 4-5 were more than 100 metres away from their home for at least 10 minutes three times in a day, according to the Environics survey. That's just under the Ontario rate of 16 per cent.

The rate of people "out and about" locally, according to the survey's criteria, dropped significantly from February. For the weekend of Feb. 22-23, before any formal distancing measures were in place, about 29.5 per cent of the area's residents were more than 100 metres away from their home for at least 10 minutes three times in a day.