Diesel Vehicles
(asked on 19th May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 9 May 2023 to Question 183297 on Diesel Vehicles, what information his Department holds on the correlation between the year a diesel car is first registered and the income decile of the owner.
The following table presents estimates from the National Travel Survey showing, for households in each income quintile in 2019, the average age of diesel vehicles that households have continuous access to.
Average age of diesel cars by household income quintile: England, 2019
Household income quintile | Average vehicle age (years) | Unweighted sample size: Vehicles |
Lowest real income level | 8.98 | 360 |
Second level | 8.49 | 472 |
Third level | 7.83 | 643 |
Fourth level | 7.59 | 814 |
Highest real income level | 6.37 | 837 |
All income levels | 7.61 | 3,126 |
Source: National Travel Survey