Aberdeen is one of the most expensive places in Scotland to refuel your car, according to latest research, with residents forking out a whopping 10.7% of their average hourly salary at the pumps.
Researchers at Admiral Car Insurance pinpointed the most expensive places to refuel your car across Scotland, with figures broken down by the most expensive compared to local annual salaries.
The analysis looked at how much the average motorist is set to spend on petrol over the next 12 months.
Based on motorists travelling the UK average of 7,490 miles per year, researchers multiplied the local cost of refuelling with petrol (as of 19th April 2022) and compared it to the local median salary in each of Scotland’s regions.
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Key findings
The City of Aberdeen ranked as the 7th most unaffordable place to refuel your car in Scotland currently, costing locals 10.7% of their average hourly salary.
Petrol in the City of Aberdeen is an average of 161.1 per litre with an estimated annual cost of £1,106.
Dumfries and Galloway are hardest hit with petrol costing people 11.8% of their average hourly salary, the highest of any region in Scotland.
The Scottish Borders, Moray, and Argyll & Bute all ranked as the 2nd most unaffordable places to get petrol in Scotland right now, costing locals 11.2% of their hourly wage.
Cheapest areas of Scotland to refuel
East Renfrewshire ranked as the cheapest place to refuel vehicles at a cost of approximately 7.3% of the average hourly.
Surprisingly, the City of Edinburgh and the City of Glasgow ranked as the 5th cheapest places in Scotland to refuel with both costing 9.4% of an hourly average salary of those regions.
Scots have been hit with the largest monthly spike in pump prices on record in March, despite a cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre last month, implemented by Chancellor Rishi Sunak on March 23.
The RAC says the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts rose by 11.6p to end the month at 163.3p.
The previous biggest monthly increases in average fuel prices on record – going back to 2000 – were in October 2021 at per litre for petrol and 8.4p per litre for diesel in May 2008.
- UK fuel prices per location were sourced from All Star Card. The average hourly salary is the median hourly salary (2021) in each location for full-time workers, with data gathered from the Office of National Statistics.
- Average yearly mileage (7490 miles) from yearly data produced by the RAC and the average fuel usage per 100km (converted to 100m) is 5.7L per 100km from Department of Transport data.
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