Fig. 6

Positive correlation between the usual residential population difference and the peak incidence difference between 2016 and 2021 at SA2 resolution for three considered variants: Ancestral (blue), Delta (green), and Omicron (red). Dashed lines represent linear fitting for each of the profiles (see Appendix Table 10 for statistical analysis). Data points corresponding to each SA2 are computed as the average over 100 runs. Total number of overlapping SA2 between 2016 and 2021 census years: 2147. Pearson correlation coefficients: \(r_{Ancestral}=0.7717\), \(r_{Delta}=0.6447\), \(r_{Omicron}=0.9002\)