Liverpool is continuing its recovery from Covid-19 as new figures show visitors to the city centre have exceeded 2019 levels for the first time in a ‘normal’ week since the pandemic began.
The data, collected by the Liverpool Business Improvement District, shows that in the week March 7 to 13, 1,314,115 people travelled in and out of the city centre. This figure represents a 0.4% rise on 2019 levels and is the first time since March 2020 that 2019 levels have been exceeded without a school holiday or holiday to account for an increase.
Liverpool BID Company, a non profit organisation which oversees Liverpool's central commercial districts, has been monitoring footfall levels in the city centre retail areas since March 2020 as an indication of people returning to the city centre, and also as a broad tool of economic confidence and resilience. Just over two years ago, when the first full national lockdown began, the city centre’s footfall figures plummeted from 1,266, 662 people 782,209 by the following week.
