A quarter of Camp de Morvedre's vehicles lack a DGT environmental sticker
Sagunto is home to 69% of the 76,265 vehicles registered in Camp de Morvedre, according to the latest 2025 IVE figures, with Segart the only district municipality where the vehicle fleet outnumbers its own population.
Sagunto accounts for 69% of the 76,265 vehicles registered across the Camp de Morvedre district, according to the latest figures from the Valencian Statistics Institute (IVE) for 2025. The city has 52,541 vehicles, of which 13,257 lack an environmental sticker from Spain's traffic authority, the DGT: 25.2% of the local fleet, close to the district-wide average of 24.5%. Overall, one in four vehicles in Camp de Morvedre — 18,669 out of 76,265 — fails to meet the minimum emissions standards needed to qualify for any sticker at all.
The figures arrive just a day after Sagunto's council gave final approval to the ordinance regulating the city's new Low Emission Zones (ZBE) in Sagunto and Puerto de Sagunto (coastal district), the rules that will determine which vehicles can drive freely through the urban centre. Cars without an environmental sticker are precisely the ones first affected by this kind of restriction, which Spanish law requires municipalities with over 50,000 residents — and smaller towns over 20,000 with high pollution levels — to put in place.
The DGT sticker system sorts vehicles into five categories by age and emissions. In Sagunto, category C dominates (39.9%, petrol cars registered from 2006 and diesel from 2015) alongside category B (28.7%, petrol from 2001 and diesel from 2006). Electrified vehicles — 810 with the zero-emissions CERO sticker and 2,405 with ECO — make up just 6.1% of the city's fleet, a share similar to the district as a whole.
Outside Sagunto, the other fifteen municipalities show sharp contrasts. Canet d'En Berenguer (coastal town), the district's second-largest fleet with 5,560 vehicles, has the youngest cars in Camp de Morvedre, averaging 11 years and five months, and just 15.9% without a sticker — the lowest share anywhere in the district. Gilet and Estivella both average 12.18 years, while Algar de Palància, Torres Torres and Segart, all above 13.4 years, sit at the older end of the scale.
The most striking figure is the ratio of vehicles to residents. Segart, home to just 183 people, has 198 registered cars — 108 per 100 residents, making it the only municipality in the district where the vehicle fleet outnumbers the population. Alfara de la Baronia follows closely, with an identical number of residents and vehicles (623). At the other end, Sagunto (72 vehicles per 100 residents) and Canet d'En Berenguer (67) post the lowest ratios, which the IVE links to higher urban density and better public transport options that reduce reliance on private cars compared with smaller towns. Camp de Morvedre, made up of 16 municipalities, had 102,642 residents in 2025.
No town hall has set a date for phasing sticker-less vehicles off the roads, though each municipality can set its own access, driving and parking restrictions within its Low Emission Zone. According to El Periódico de Aquí, with additional background from Wikipedia on Camp de Morvedre and from elperiodic.com on Sagunto's new ZBE ordinance.