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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and Aran, and areas

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and areas 2006
Cars Industrial tractors Motorcycles Lorries and vans Buses and coaches Others Total Vehicles per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 20,920 271 2,568 6,264 25 1,157 31,205 760
Alt Empordà 68,167 912 10,687 22,000 81 3,538 105,385 872
Alt Penedès 53,384 700 6,365 17,686 82 3,133 81,350 840
Alt Urgell 10,623 116 1,089 3,284 58 643 15,813 772
Alta Ribagorça 1,772 25 171 641 7 149 2,765 698
Anoia 52,468 532 7,077 14,149 149 2,861 77,236 710
Bages 131,427 759 10,952 40,316 140 6,130 189,724 1,102
Baix Camp 82,082 915 12,409 22,828 96 3,900 122,230 714
Baix Ebre 33,501 291 4,188 14,412 114 1,757 54,263 713
Baix Empordà 67,182 347 12,631 21,017 158 2,772 104,107 865
Baix Llobregat 340,116 3,130 47,019 68,337 572 18,253 477,427 634
Baix Penedès 39,641 304 4,894 9,642 48 1,692 56,221 656
Barcelonès 826,898 3,899 208,360 150,449 2,979 23,261 1,215,846 556
Berguedà 19,844 197 2,649 7,567 14 1,290 31,561 790
Cerdanya 8,469 33 1,371 4,088 20 772 14,753 873
Conca de Barberà 10,080 111 1,132 3,316 14 776 15,429 769
Garraf 55,038 351 12,253 12,154 71 1,824 81,691 625
Garrigues 10,124 131 1,083 3,529 10 584 15,461 800
Garrotxa 26,902 278 3,869 9,205 28 1,340 41,622 796
Gironès 84,085 773 13,795 23,386 228 3,445 125,712 764
Maresme 180,255 760 32,505 41,010 269 6,244 261,043 646
Montsià 29,609 610 2,622 12,124 10 2,563 47,538 737
Noguera 19,306 430 1,960 6,065 32 1,453 29,246 787
Osona 72,682 569 9,050 22,225 91 4,331 108,948 752
Pallars Jussà 6,174 77 531 2,475 18 473 9,748 786
Pallars Sobirà 3,222 32 384 1,545 22 374 5,579 795
Pla d'Urgell 17,586 443 1,635 4,680 27 1,225 25,596 757
Pla de l'Estany 14,716 182 2,029 4,577 28 809 22,341 798
Priorat 4,644 21 803 1,993 11 242 7,714 807
Ribera d'Ebre 10,612 60 1,550 3,926 14 558 16,720 755
Ripollès 13,023 91 2,034 4,705 31 769 20,653 788
Segarra 11,016 323 860 3,141 28 782 16,150 760
Segrià 86,765 1,820 9,350 23,265 252 5,572 127,024 684
Selva 72,740 795 13,758 20,511 278 3,485 111,567 760
Solsonès 6,927 181 772 2,591 8 648 11,127 847
Tarragonès 104,035 1,312 15,143 22,600 489 5,534 149,113 679
Terra Alta 4,876 65 415 2,642 1 327 8,326 659
Urgell 17,546 312 1,568 5,272 6 1,024 25,728 756
Val d'Aran 4,685 12 710 1,885 11 317 7,620 824
Vallès Occidental 386,916 3,030 47,827 87,006 787 16,634 542,200 660
Vallès Oriental 181,966 1,953 22,244 44,054 345 9,024 259,586 708
Non county 780 6 102 250 0 34 1,172 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalonia 3,192,804 27,159 532,414 772,812 7,652 141,699 4,674,540 652
Àmbit Metropolità 2,024,573 13,823 376,573 420,696 5,105 78,373 2,919,143 613
Comarques Gironines 346,815 3,378 58,803 105,401 832 16,158 531,387 806
Camp de Tarragona 261,402 2,934 36,949 66,643 683 13,301 381,912 698
Terres de l'Ebre 78,598 1,026 8,775 33,104 139 5,205 126,847 723
Ponent 162,343 3,459 16,456 45,952 355 10,640 239,205 722
Comarques Centrals 283,348 2,238 30,500 86,848 402 15,260 418,596 874
Alt Pirineu i Aran 34,945 295 4,256 13,918 136 2,728 56,278 804
Source: Idescat, based on data from the DG de Trafic of the Ministerio del Interior.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: April 10, 2013.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Buses
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of travellers with a capacity for more than nine persons, including the driver. Trolleybuses (vehicles connected to an electrical line that do not move around on rails) are excluded from this category.
Lorries and vans
Vehicles whose purpose is transport of goods (motorcycles with three wheels, weighing no less than 400 kg are excluded).
Motorcycle
Two-wheeled vehicles, with or without a sidecar the passenger compartment laterally attached to the motorcycle. Cars for disabled people are also included in this category.
Fleet of motor vehicles
Set of motor vehicles in circulation (except mopeds and special vehicles). It is made up of the registrations for each year, minus any vehicles retired and reported. This group includes: buses, trucks and vans, motorcycles, industrial tractors and estate cars.
Industrial tractors
Vehicles capable of dragging a semi-trailer, without taking farming tractors into account.
Private cars
Four-wheeled vehicle whose purpose is transportation of travellers, with a maximum capacity of nine people, including the driver.

Methodological aspects

On December, 31.

From 2010 on, mopeds are included.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".