Ranking

Densest barangays in Batanes

Kayhuvokan (Basco, Batanes) is the most crowded of the 29 barangays in Batanes: about 1,162 people for every km² in 2024.^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

Below are all 29 barangays, ordered by people for every km² of land, each with its 2020 count and its change since.

People are counted as of July 1, 2024 (the 2024 Census of Population) and May 1, 2020 (the 2020 Census of Population and Housing), both by the Philippine Statistics Authority.

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Densest barangays in Batanes, top 29
Rank	Name	City or municipality	People, 2024	People, 2020	Change since 2020	People per km²
1	Kayhuvokan	Basco, Batanes	1,917	1,888	+1.5%	about 1,162
2	Ihubok I	Basco, Batanes	1,779	1,768	+0.6%	about 1,098
3	Ihubok II	Basco, Batanes	2,728	2,626	+3.9%	about 812
4	Hañib	Mahatao, Batanes	387	404	−4.2%	about 428
5	San Antonio	Basco, Batanes	2,264	2,247	+0.8%	about 270
6	Tuhel	Ivana, Batanes	366	383	−4.4%	about 217
7	Panatayan	Mahatao, Batanes	462	480	−3.8%	about 204
8	Kayuganan	Uyugan, Batanes	329	304	+8.2%	about 181
9	Chanarian	Basco, Batanes	430	448	−4.0%	about 160
10	Imnajbu	Uyugan, Batanes	179	177	+1.1%	about 144
11	Itbud	Uyugan, Batanes	531	530	+0.2%	about 133
12	Kaumbakan	Mahatao, Batanes	486	446	+9.0%	about 130
13	Salagao	Ivana, Batanes	363	368	−1.4%	about 112
14	Kayvaluganan	Uyugan, Batanes	427	369	+15.7%	about 99
15	Sinakan	Sabtang, Batanes	568	563	+0.9%	about 88
16	Uvoy	Mahatao, Batanes	410	373	+9.9%	about 87
17	Radiwan	Ivana, Batanes	381	389	−2.1%	about 85
18	San Rafael	Itbayat, Batanes	793	897	−11.6%	about 70
19	Sumnanga	Sabtang, Batanes	391	360	+8.6%	about 69
20	San Vicente	Ivana, Batanes	258	267	−3.4%	about 48
21	Malakdang	Sabtang, Batanes	300	277	+8.3%	about 48
22	Santa Rosa	Itbayat, Batanes	754	833	−9.5%	about 44
23	Santa Maria	Itbayat, Batanes	475	488	−2.7%	about 38
24	Savidug	Sabtang, Batanes	214	201	+6.5%	about 37
25	San Joaquin	Basco, Batanes	529	540	−2.0%	about 33
26	Santa Lucia	Itbayat, Batanes	448	438	+2.3%	about 26
27	Chavayan	Sabtang, Batanes	158	161	−1.9%	about 25
28	Raele	Itbayat, Batanes	467	472	−1.1%	about 15
29	Nakanmuan	Sabtang, Batanes	143	134	+6.7%	about 13

Density is a place's 2024 people divided by its land area. A barangay has no official area: Scene measures the area inside its border on UN OCHA's map, so its density is approximate. A barangay with no mapped border is not ranked.

Sources

Every count here is the PSA's own, for the place as the PSA names it today. The change and the order are Scene's arithmetic on those counts. How Scene works out the rest.

1.Philippine Statistics Authority. Total Population, Household Population, and Number of Households by Province, City, Municipality, and Barangay as of 01 July 2024: Cagayan Valley (OpenSTAT table 0021A6DTPH1). Published August 4, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
2.Philippine Statistics Authority. Philippine Standard Geographic Code (PSGC), 4th Quarter 2022: Publication Datafile, with the 2015 and 2020 census counts (the PSA's file, as the Internet Archive keeps it). Published December 31, 2022. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
3.Philippine Statistics Authority, from the Land Management Bureau (DENR). Population, Land Area, Population Density, and Percent Change in Population Density by Region, Province/Highly Urbanized City, and City/Municipality: 2015, 2020, and 2024 (OpenSTAT table 0221A6DLPD0). Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
4.UN OCHA, from the PSA and NAMRIA. Philippines: Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB), barangay layer. Published February 13, 2025. Read by Scene September 25, 2026. CC BY-IGO 3.0. Open the source

Scene works out the rest from these sources: growth rates, shares, areas, densities, coordinates, neighbours and distances. How.

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