Ever since this summer’s riots in England, it’s been clear that a significant portion of the participants traveled significant distances to join in. For example, in my upcoming story for the January issue of Wired, I interview officials in Enfield, a suburb in the north of London, who say that a full 40 percent of the suspects in their riots hailed from outside the district, with some of them traveling from miles away, from neighborhoods on the other side of town. But now we have some hard numbers. As part of Reading the Riots — a fantastic, newly-released collaboration between the Guardian newspaper and the London School of Economics — a data mapping company called ITO World analyzed how far arrested rioters traveled to take part in these events. Based on a sample of 400 court cases, they found that the average “riot commute” was 2.2 miles, as the crow flies, or 2.6 miles based on likely car distances

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The UK ‘Riot Commute’: 2.2 Miles, On Average