In Starnberg, Bavaria, there are 56 convertibles per 1,000 inhabitants – a record. This is followed by districts in Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. The situation is different in eastern Germany, however.
No other German registration district has as many convertibles per inhabitant as Starnberg in Bavaria. There, there are 56 cars “with an open body” per 1,000 inhabitants, according to the relevant statistics from the Federal Motor Transport Authority, which the dpa has analyzed. Almost every 11th car there is an open body.
In second and third place in the convertible ranking are the Hochtaunus district in Hesse and Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate with 50 and 49 convertibles per 1,000 inhabitants, ahead of Baden-Baden and the Munich district with 44 each and Miesbach with 43. Hardly surprising – these are all districts with particularly high average incomes.
Hardly any convertibles in Jena, Rostock or Leipzig
Particularly low convertible densities per 1000 inhabitants can be found in the cities of Jena with 7, Halle an der Saale, Rostock, Leipzig and Frankfurt an der Oder with 8 each. The German average is 26.
The comparison between the federal states is surprising. Saarland leads with 37 convertibles per 1,000 inhabitants, followed by Rhineland-Palatinate with 34 and Baden-Württemberg with 32. Hesse, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia have around 30. The lowest convertible densities, on the other hand, are found in Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Thuringia, each with 11 per 1,000 inhabitants.
Overall, the number of convertibles has increased slightly over the past ten years. According to the KBA, there were almost 2 million at the beginning of 2014, and now there are a good 2.2 million.
Source: Stern
