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

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and areas 2008
Cars Industrial tractors Motorcycles Lorries and vans Buses and coaches Others Total Vehicles per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 22,543 278 3,050 6,657 26 1,254 33,808 772
Alt Empordà 72,887 1,027 12,562 23,319 76 3,851 113,722 864
Alt Penedès 64,544 741 7,640 21,778 86 3,529 98,318 956
Alt Urgell 11,195 122 1,300 3,493 51 658 16,819 799
Alta Ribagorça 1,901 31 193 683 7 160 2,975 707
Anoia 56,689 545 8,454 15,241 162 3,194 84,285 735
Bages 160,208 981 12,993 49,218 146 7,401 230,947 1,282
Baix Camp 88,060 984 14,506 24,348 97 4,236 132,231 718
Baix Ebre 36,366 313 4,854 15,381 127 1,912 58,953 731
Baix Empordà 70,971 356 14,593 22,631 161 2,800 111,512 874
Baix Llobregat 355,430 3,495 56,612 71,441 710 19,283 506,971 654
Baix Penedès 43,408 334 6,013 10,401 51 1,835 62,042 656
Barcelonès 837,622 4,188 238,124 152,917 3,340 22,293 1,258,484 565
Berguedà 20,967 199 2,988 7,874 13 1,433 33,474 809
Cerdanya 8,921 38 1,587 4,333 22 861 15,762 887
Conca de Barberà 10,681 166 1,290 3,513 14 913 16,577 793
Garraf 58,796 377 14,522 12,756 81 1,928 88,460 637
Garrigues 10,673 139 1,247 3,696 11 665 16,431 830
Garrotxa 28,399 316 4,418 9,673 32 1,483 44,321 819
Gironès 88,230 822 16,338 24,839 279 3,532 134,040 771
Maresme 190,041 767 39,109 43,218 294 6,630 280,059 670
Montsià 31,915 680 3,017 12,952 11 2,535 51,110 734
Noguera 20,403 520 2,248 6,437 34 1,670 31,312 812
Osona 76,602 601 10,442 23,702 76 4,776 116,199 773
Pallars Jussà 6,557 122 620 2,658 19 541 10,517 807
Pallars Sobirà 3,429 33 420 1,647 24 412 5,965 810
Pla d'Urgell 19,091 472 1,928 5,040 27 1,427 27,985 782
Pla de l'Estany 15,440 204 2,350 4,931 31 877 23,833 810
Priorat 5,017 23 947 2,142 13 272 8,414 867
Ribera d'Ebre 11,383 66 1,834 4,124 15 628 18,050 785
Ripollès 13,513 91 2,332 5,033 34 833 21,836 822
Segarra 11,642 368 1,012 3,298 29 877 17,226 772
Segrià 92,271 2,071 11,157 24,763 278 6,134 136,674 694
Selva 78,396 839 16,373 22,202 311 3,550 121,671 760
Solsonès 7,351 184 912 2,762 8 731 11,948 870
Tarragonès 111,718 1,416 17,946 24,294 551 5,812 161,737 679
Terra Alta 5,207 66 498 2,779 2 387 8,939 696
Urgell 18,584 348 1,929 5,705 8 1,204 27,778 780
Val d'Aran 5,014 12 784 2,029 12 353 8,204 836
Vallès Occidental 405,638 3,264 58,233 90,488 861 18,418 576,902 675
Vallès Oriental 192,479 2,116 26,504 46,851 362 9,825 278,137 724
Non county 156 0 24 64 0 7 251 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalonia 3,370,338 29,715 623,903 821,311 8,492 151,120 5,004,879 687
Àmbit Metropolità 2,104,550 14,948 440,744 439,449 5,734 81,906 3,087,331 630
Comarques Gironines 367,836 3,655 68,966 112,628 924 16,926 570,935 812
Camp de Tarragona 281,427 3,201 43,752 71,355 752 14,322 414,809 701
Terres de l'Ebre 84,871 1,125 10,203 35,236 155 5,462 137,052 737
Ponent 172,664 3,918 19,521 48,939 387 11,977 257,406 737
Comarques Centrals 321,817 2,510 35,789 98,797 405 17,535 476,853 953
Alt Pirineu i Aran 37,017 358 4,904 14,843 135 2,985 60,242 822
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 "..".