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Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces

Fleet of motor vehicles. By type. Provinces 2024
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Private cars 2,356,292 424,957 236,633 433,725 3,451,607 25,244,531 13.8
Buses 6,904 1,124 528 1,306 9,862 67,432 14.5
Motorcycles 735,019 114,107 38,360 91,193 978,679 4,338,881 22.8
Lorries and vans 447,728 112,925 66,719 98,828 726,200 5,203,435 14.1
Industrial tractors 19,575 4,211 6,466 4,315 34,567 259,417 12.9
Mopeds 133,623 34,767 14,534 29,669 212,593 1,620,708 1.9
Others 115,491 24,433 21,847 22,006 183,777 1,128,088 16.4
Total 3,814,632 716,524 385,087 681,042 5,597,285 37,862,492 15.0
Source: Directorate General of Traffic.
Note: Others: Includes trailers and semi-trailers.

Last update: November 10, 2025.

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).
Motorcycles
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.

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 "..".