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

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Counties and areas 2011
Cars Industrial tractors Motorcycles Lorries and vans Buses and coaches Others Total Vehicles per 1,000 inh.
Alt Camp 23,267 283 3,421 6,766 20 1,332 35,089 793
Alt Empordà 73,630 831 13,655 23,126 78 3,860 115,180 861
Alt Penedès 63,957 662 8,465 17,988 88 3,585 94,745 893
Alt Urgell 11,407 117 1,458 3,571 51 725 17,329 827
Alta Ribagorça 1,912 27 208 729 8 173 3,057 728
Anoia 58,577 509 9,300 15,915 78 3,379 87,758 747
Bages 154,030 1,026 13,838 46,978 149 11,134 227,155 1,241
Baix Camp 89,759 854 15,945 23,585 114 4,081 134,338 710
Baix Ebre 36,833 297 5,205 15,132 177 2,077 59,721 743
Baix Empordà 71,038 310 15,810 22,301 163 2,821 112,443 872
Baix Llobregat 356,857 2,850 63,715 69,118 712 14,726 507,978 639
Baix Penedès 45,200 323 6,741 10,236 53 1,829 64,382 648
Barcelonès 810,348 3,748 258,773 144,310 3,451 21,979 1,242,609 558
Berguedà 21,214 205 3,277 7,875 15 1,562 34,148 827
Cerdanya 9,013 36 1,781 4,269 24 943 16,066 890
Conca de Barberà 10,852 144 1,423 3,634 14 959 17,026 816
Garraf 60,307 305 16,030 12,238 82 1,812 90,774 631
Garrigues 10,830 129 1,355 3,678 13 744 16,749 853
Garrotxa 28,932 294 4,829 9,826 36 1,632 45,549 829
Gironès 88,497 728 17,770 24,499 288 3,619 135,401 755
Maresme 193,937 685 43,721 42,270 281 6,543 287,437 667
Montsià 32,253 503 3,310 12,664 11 2,054 50,795 725
Noguera 20,497 471 2,427 6,489 34 1,825 31,743 816
Osona 78,056 575 11,453 23,875 74 5,044 119,077 774
Pallars Jussà 6,561 115 687 2,717 19 605 10,704 777
Pallars Sobirà 3,516 32 459 1,751 23 475 6,256 854
Pla d'Urgell 19,372 452 2,139 5,112 30 1,583 28,688 785
Pla de l'Estany 15,810 177 2,580 5,050 31 917 24,565 792
Priorat 5,132 17 1,015 2,183 13 318 8,678 891
Ribera d'Ebre 11,696 67 2,031 4,186 16 747 18,743 825
Ripollès 13,421 91 2,393 4,989 39 879 21,812 836
Segarra 11,794 341 1,128 3,365 32 993 17,653 767
Segrià 93,609 2,008 12,170 24,452 277 6,726 139,242 681
Selva 80,423 802 17,994 22,311 385 3,685 125,600 757
Solsonès 7,454 168 1,016 2,829 7 782 12,256 891
Tarragonès 113,395 1,170 19,764 23,456 599 5,503 163,887 667
Terra Alta 5,342 58 555 2,810 2 451 9,218 724
Urgell 18,813 349 2,076 5,762 7 1,244 28,251 778
Val d'Aran 5,126 17 830 2,097 14 370 8,454 863
Vallès Occidental 409,743 2,959 65,259 86,813 824 17,875 583,473 663
Vallès Oriental 195,535 1,967 29,593 45,717 357 9,496 282,665 714
Non county 124 0 14 46 0 5 189 .. Confidential data, low reliability or not available
Catalonia 3,368,069 26,702 685,613 796,718 8,689 151,092 5,036,883 678
Àmbit Metropolità 1,966,420 12,209 461,061 388,228 5,625 70,619 2,904,162 614
Comarques Gironines 371,751 3,233 75,031 112,102 1,020 17,413 580,550 806
Camp de Tarragona 242,405 2,468 41,568 59,624 760 12,193 359,018 705
Terres de l'Ebre 86,124 925 11,101 34,792 206 5,329 138,477 745
Ponent 174,915 3,750 21,295 48,858 393 13,115 262,326 731
Comarques Centrals 260,754 1,974 29,584 81,557 245 18,522 392,636 1,002
Alt Pirineu i Aran 37,535 344 5,423 15,134 139 3,291 61,866 835
Penedès 228,041 1,799 40,536 56,377 301 10,605 337,659 723
Source: Idescat, based on data from the DG de Trafic of the Ministerio del Interior.
Notes:
Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.
El total no inclou els ciclomotors.
(..) Confidential data, low reliability or not available.

Last update: May 24, 2012.

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 "..".