The cliché goes: Wherever incomes are high, there are most SUVs. In fact, there is another factor that makes SUVs dense.
Thuringia is the state with the largest proportion of SUVs in Germany. As an evaluation of the motor vehicle insurance policies taken out with the comparison portal Verivox in the past 12 months shows, the rate here is 13,5 percent. It is followed by the eastern German states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg with 13,2 percent each, as well as Saxony-Anhalt (12,7%) and Bavaria (12,6%). The city-states of Hamburg (10,3%) and Bremen (9,7%) have the lowest SUV rates. The national average is 11,6 percent.
As the analysis also shows, age has more influence on the level of the SUV quota than income. In terms of the average age of the population, the eastern German federal states are ahead in the national comparison. The analysis of the contracts, broken down according to the age of the policyholders, results in an SUV rate of 61 percent for 70 to 17,3 year old customers, while it is only 31 percent for the 40 to 7,8 year old group. A connection between income level and SUV quota can only be determined for large SUVs. Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bavaria have the highest values here.