Ranking

Largest cities and municipalities in Cagayan Valley

Tuguegarao City (Cagayan) is the largest of the 93 cities and municipalities in Cagayan Valley, with 167,297 people at the 2024 census.^[1]

Below are all 93 cities and municipalities, ordered by their people in the 2024 census, 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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Largest cities and municipalities in Cagayan Valley, top 93
Rank	Name	Province or region	People, 2024	People, 2020	Change since 2020
1	Tuguegarao City	Cagayan	167,297	166,334	+0.6%
2	Ilagan City	Isabela	164,020	158,218	+3.7%
3	Santiago City	Isabela	150,313	148,580	+1.2%
4	Cauayan City	Isabela	143,539	143,403	+0.1%
5	Echague	Isabela	91,320	88,410	+3.3%
6	Baggao	Cagayan	90,723	87,753	+3.4%
7	Solana	Cagayan	89,840	88,445	+1.6%
8	Tumauini	Isabela	77,153	70,743	+9.1%
9	Alicia	Isabela	74,699	73,874	+1.1%
10	Bayombong	Nueva Vizcaya	72,890	67,714	+7.6%
11	Solano	Nueva Vizcaya	69,296	65,287	+6.1%
12	Aparri	Cagayan	68,368	68,839	−0.7%
13	San Mateo	Isabela	67,433	66,663	+1.2%
14	Roxas	Isabela	66,593	65,839	+1.2%
15	Tuao	Cagayan	66,147	63,970	+3.4%
16	San Mariano	Isabela	61,876	60,124	+2.9%
17	Bambang	Nueva Vizcaya	60,146	55,789	+7.8%
18	Gattaran	Cagayan	59,704	58,874	+1.4%
19	Diffun	Quirino	58,254	56,102	+3.8%
20	Ramon	Isabela	57,412	56,523	+1.6%
21	Cabagan	Isabela	55,445	53,897	+2.9%
22	Amulung	Cagayan	50,903	50,336	+1.1%
23	Peñablanca	Cagayan	50,856	50,300	+1.1%
24	Lal-Lo	Cagayan	48,404	48,733	−0.7%
25	Kasibu	Nueva Vizcaya	46,845	41,776	+12.1%
26	Cordon	Isabela	46,688	46,477	+0.5%
27	Jones	Isabela	46,160	45,628	+1.2%
28	Angadanan	Isabela	45,970	44,977	+2.2%
29	Aritao	Nueva Vizcaya	45,000	42,197	+6.6%
30	Lasam	Cagayan	42,042	41,225	+2.0%
31	Gonzaga	Cagayan	41,994	41,680	+0.8%
32	Maddela	Quirino	41,867	40,943	+2.3%
33	Alcala	Cagayan	41,468	41,295	+0.4%
34	Cabatuan	Isabela	40,223	39,990	+0.6%
35	Bagabag	Nueva Vizcaya	39,138	37,985	+3.0%
36	Aurora	Isabela	37,191	36,621	+1.6%
37	Enrile	Cagayan	36,481	36,705	−0.6%
38	Allacapan	Cagayan	35,946	35,234	+2.0%
39	Dupax del Norte	Nueva Vizcaya	35,509	33,295	+6.7%
40	Abulug	Cagayan	35,347	34,579	+2.2%
41	San Manuel	Isabela	34,740	34,085	+1.9%
42	Cabarroguis	Quirino	34,720	33,533	+3.5%
43	Santa Ana	Cagayan	34,595	35,688	−3.1%
44	Ballesteros	Cagayan	34,562	34,488	+0.2%
45	Naguilian	Isabela	34,520	33,788	+2.2%
46	Claveria	Cagayan	32,997	31,900	+3.4%
47	Mallig	Isabela	32,509	32,208	+0.9%
48	Buguey	Cagayan	32,351	32,148	+0.6%
49	Aglipay	Quirino	31,596	30,714	+2.9%
50	Iguig	Cagayan	31,342	30,060	+4.3%
51	Delfin Albano	Isabela	30,860	29,928	+3.1%
52	Gamu	Isabela	30,850	30,655	+0.6%
53	Benito Soliven	Isabela	30,682	29,752	+3.1%
54	Santo Niño	Cagayan	29,066	28,537	+1.9%
55	Quezon	Isabela	28,376	27,037	+5.0%
56	Reina Mercedes	Isabela	28,222	27,900	+1.2%
57	Kayapa	Nueva Vizcaya	27,865	26,469	+5.3%
58	San Isidro	Isabela	27,326	27,044	+1.0%
59	Burgos	Isabela	26,729	26,040	+2.7%
60	Nagtipunan	Quirino	26,541	25,399	+4.5%
61	San Pablo	Isabela	26,462	26,320	+0.5%
62	Sanchez Mira	Cagayan	26,292	26,164	+0.5%
63	Santo Tomas	Isabela	25,997	24,528	+6.0%
64	Santa Maria	Isabela	25,919	25,758	+0.6%
65	Camalaniugan	Cagayan	25,629	25,236	+1.6%
66	Piat	Cagayan	25,436	24,805	+2.5%
67	Quezon	Nueva Vizcaya	25,306	24,055	+5.2%
68	Quirino	Isabela	25,205	25,023	+0.7%
69	Pamplona	Cagayan	25,182	24,781	+1.6%
70	Dupax del Sur	Nueva Vizcaya	22,388	21,224	+5.5%
71	San Agustin	Isabela	22,228	22,096	+0.6%
72	San Guillermo	Isabela	21,043	20,915	+0.6%
73	Luna	Isabela	21,015	20,697	+1.5%
74	Villaverde	Nueva Vizcaya	21,001	20,118	+4.4%
75	Diadi	Nueva Vizcaya	20,438	19,236	+6.3%
76	Rizal	Cagayan	19,577	19,077	+2.6%
77	Santa Teresita	Cagayan	19,476	19,573	−0.5%
78	Santa Fe	Nueva Vizcaya	18,950	18,276	+3.7%
79	Palanan	Isabela	18,091	17,684	+2.3%
80	Calayan	Cagayan	18,008	17,410	+3.4%
81	Saguday	Quirino	17,863	17,137	+4.2%
82	Ambaguio	Nueva Vizcaya	16,401	15,472	+6.0%
83	Basco	Batanes	9,647	9,517	+1.4%
84	Alfonso Castaneda	Nueva Vizcaya	8,933	8,539	+4.6%
85	Dinapigue	Isabela	6,116	5,821	+5.1%
86	Divilacan	Isabela	5,871	5,827	+0.8%
87	Santa Praxedes	Cagayan	4,643	4,434	+4.7%
88	Maconacon	Isabela	4,252	3,977	+6.9%
89	Itbayat	Batanes	2,937	3,128	−6.1%
90	Sabtang	Batanes	1,774	1,696	+4.6%
91	Mahatao	Batanes	1,745	1,703	+2.5%
92	Uyugan	Batanes	1,466	1,380	+6.2%
93	Ivana	Batanes	1,368	1,407	−2.8%

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. Population and Annual Population Growth Rate of the Philippines and its Regions, Provinces, and Highly Urbanized Cities Based on the 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024 Population Census (OpenSTAT table 0211A6DAPG0). Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). 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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