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There are most motorcycles in the south
How many motorcycles there are per 1000 inhabitants fluctuates enormously throughout Germany. Circles from Bavaria are at the forefront – but not the usual suspects.
Nowhere in Germany there are as many motorcycles as in Freyung-Grafenau. In the Lower Bavarian district, 121 two-wheeled car came to 1,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the year-more than in any other admission district, as an evaluation of figures from the Federal Motor Transport Authority showed by the German Press Agency.
German average are 58 approved motorcycles per 1,000 inhabitants. Both values have risen slightly. At the beginning of 2024 there were still 119 and 57. The cities of Schwerin and Rostock are the final light of the motorcycle density at 25 each.
Overall, when looking at the 399 registration districts, a clear gradient between town and country can be determined. While the last 63 places go to city districts, independent cities and the city -states, there are only circles and counties – and a clear Bavarian dominance, because behind Freyung -Grafenau there are a total of eleven further admission districts from the Free State: from Cham with 109 to Pfaffenhofen with 98 to twelve. The highest outdoor density is the Baden-Württemberg Bodensee district with 97 motorcycles per 1,000 inhabitants.
Final light states
This is how this is reflected in the comparison of the federal states: Bavaria is far average with an average of 77 motorcycles per 1,000 inhabitants, followed by Baden-Württemberg with 67 machines in front of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland with 65 and Brandenburg with 61. The city-states of Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin are 30, 31 and 32 motorcycles per 1,000 inhabitants. They are also in the last places in the vehicle density, also because there are more alternatives to your own vehicle.
Saxony-Anhalt with 49 as well as Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 51 motorcycles per 1,000 inhabitants each have the lowest values among the area. Lower Saxony has 56, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein come to 55 and Thuringia each.
Within the countries – if they are not city -states – there are strong differences again: in the motorcycle -rich Bavaria it goes down with Schweinfurt, except for 41 machines each, 1,000 inhabitants, in the motorcycle -poor Saxony -Anhalt with the Saalekreis up to 63, in Saxony even up to 72 in the Erzgebirge district.
It is also striking that motorcycling is obviously a very male -dominated employment. Of the almost 5.1 million of motorcycles across Germany – around 150,000 trikes and quads are also counted here – only 688,000 are admitted to women. Even if you take into account that the rest is not completely approved for men, but partly also on companies and organizations, there is a massive imbalance – which is only shrinking slowly. At the beginning of 2024, the proportion of women was 13.5 percent, in early 2025 with 13.6 only minimally higher.
dpa
Source: Stern
