{"id":131151,"date":"2018-11-07T11:53:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=131151"},"modified":"2018-11-07T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:02:39","slug":"millennials-spending-big-on-cars-with-auto-loans-to-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/11\/millennials-spending-big-on-cars-with-auto-loans-to-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennials Spending Big on Cars \u2014 With Auto Loans to Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110106\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2017-Toyota-Tacoma-TRD-Texas-State-Fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110106\" title=\"2017 Toyota Tacoma TRD Texas State Fair\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2017-Toyota-Tacoma-TRD-Texas-State-Fair-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas millennials have higher auto debt than anywhere else in the country, largely because they purchase trucks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The adage says everything is bigger in Texas. Well, when it comes to car loans, it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n<p>A new survey by Lending Tree reveals that millennials in the Lone Star State are spending big on new vehicles \u2013\u00a0trucks \u2013 and have the large car loans to prove it. Texas is the nation\u2019s largest consumer of new trucks, which are typically not cheap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43251\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43251\" title=\"Subscribe 28\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-28.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Subscribe-28-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">News You Can Trust!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More than 25% of all registered vehicles in Texas in December 2017 were privately owned, non-fleet trucks. Ford F-Series trucks sold at a national average transaction price of $46,600 per truck in September. Texans prefer trucks to the point that six manufacturers \u2014 GMC, Ram, Ford, Nissan, Chevy and Toyota \u2014 have Texas-edition trucks in their line-up.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city with the largest average car loan is McAllen, Texas. It\u2019s not just tops, according to Lending Tree, McAllen is a strong outlier. Millennials here have a median auto debt 13% higher than the No. 2 city on this list. The average balance of $31,598 is $5,000 more than Houston.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(New vehicle prices continue to rise into the fourth quarter. <\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2018\/11\/new-vehicle-prices-continue-to-rise-in-fourth-quarter\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0to find out why.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big difference between median and average debt in McAllen suggests that millennials are buying more expensive cars, not just taking longer to pay them,\u201d said Kali McFadden, LendingTree\u2019s senior research analyst who led the study.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Texas-Titan-badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-110109\" title=\"2017 Nissan Texas Titan\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Texas-Titan-badge-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truck makers entice Lone Star State buyers with Texas-edition trucks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact, four of the top five cities where millennials have the largest vehicle loans are in Texas and No. 5 is in the state next door, Louisiana.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McAllen, Texas: $23,704 (median auto balance) and $31,598 (average auto balance)<\/li>\n<li>Houston: $20,925 and $26,471<\/li>\n<li>El Paso, Texas: $20,544 and $27,010<\/li>\n<li>San Antonio: $20,521 and $25,745<\/li>\n<li>Baton Rouge, Louisiana: $20,124 and $25,732<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>(<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2018\/11\/fca-honda-and-vw-lead-october-auto-sales\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>\u00a0for more about\u00a0<strong><em>FCA, Honda and VW leading October sales.<\/em><\/strong>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a delicious bit of irony, Detroit \u2013 which recently went through the largest municipal bankruptcy in history \u2013 has the lowest levels of millennial auto debt on the list with a median debt of $10,841 as well as the lowest average debt of $14,573. It also has the lowest number of millennials living in the metro area at just 18.8% of the area\u2019s 4.3 million people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_61742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61742\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Millennial-Shopper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61742\" title=\"Millennial Shopper\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Millennial-Shopper-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millennials are believed to have prevented a giant sales fall off for the auto industry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Overall, the Great Lakes region\u2019s metro areas were in the bottom when it came to auto debt.\u00a0After Detroit, millennials in Rochester, New York; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Toledo, Ohio; and Cleveland carry the lowest median auto debts, at $12,165, $12,429, $12,678 and $12,717 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Allan Jones, a native of Rochester who\u2019s owned his Ford F-150 since 1997, said that most residents of the city don\u2019t seem to be attentive to pristine car appearances. \u201cThe important thing is that it runs,\u201d he said. Old car bodies \u201cend up looking like lace, with pockets and holes from the salty wet eating them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York and Ogden, Utah.\u00a0These metros are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to carrying any auto debt at all \u2014 New York has the lowest percentage of millennials with auto debt at 41.5% while Ogden, Utah has the highest percentage of millennials with auto debt (64.5%).<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(To see what automakers brought to SEMA this year,\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"\/2018\/10\/automakers-deliver-some-neat-tricks-and-plenty-of-treats-for-sema-show\/\">Click Here<\/a><\/span><em>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to cut down on millennial auto debt, Lending Tree recommends paying every two weeks instead of month. By doing this, owners are just paying half of it early, which knocks down the amount paid in interest. It works because your interest rate is just that \u2014 a rate based on time and how much is owed. The interest rate is not a set amount of what must be paid, so by paying early early, owners end up paying a lower amount of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adage says everything is bigger in Texas. Well, when it comes to car loans, it\u2019s true. A new survey by Lending Tree reveals that millennials in the Lone Star State are spending big on new vehicles \u2013 trucks \u2013 and have the large car loans to prove it. Find out more about millennial car loan stats at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":110106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,151,123,280,132,124,139,278,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131151"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=131151"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=131151"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=131151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}