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Densest barangays in Catanduanes

Marcelo Alberto (Virac, Catanduanes) is the most crowded of the 315 barangays in Catanduanes: about 24,373 people for every km² in 2024.[1, 2, 3, 4]

Below are the first 100 of 315 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 Catanduanes, top 100
RankNameCity or municipalityPeople, 2024People, 2020Change since 2020People per km²
1Marcelo AlbertoVirac, Catanduanes797811−1.7%about 24,373
2San PabloVirac, Catanduanes830870−4.6%about 24,128
3RawisVirac, Catanduanes1,7002,018−15.8%about 15,596
4San JuanVirac, Catanduanes476599−20.5%about 14,251
5ConcepcionVirac, Catanduanes797929−14.2%about 13,217
6Santa ElenaVirac, Catanduanes572713−19.8%about 12,489
7EsperanzaSan Andres, Catanduanes605680−11.0%about 12,247
8Gogon SiranganVirac, Catanduanes798808−1.2%about 11,787
9Eastern PoblacionBaras, Catanduanes329357−7.8%about 11,345
10PoblacionBagamanoc, Catanduanes705785−10.2%about 10,981
11San PedroVirac, Catanduanes219264−17.1%about 10,683
12Gogon CentroVirac, Catanduanes2,1162,177−2.8%about 10,580
13Santa CruzVirac, Catanduanes787974−19.2%about 10,221
14San JoaquinPanganiban, Catanduanes359402−10.7%about 10,113
15San JosePanganiban, Catanduanes179210−14.8%about 9,572
16QuezonBaras, Catanduanes132129+2.3%about 9,167
17Poblacion District IGigmoto, Catanduanes761778−2.2%about 8,667
18San JuanPanganiban, Catanduanes161171−5.9%about 8,214
19SalvacionSan Andres, Catanduanes340367−7.4%about 8,000
20Palnab Del NorteVirac, Catanduanes2,0301,998+1.6%about 7,575
21San JoseVirac, Catanduanes126107+17.8%about 7,545
22San LorenzoBaras, Catanduanes203163+24.5%about 6,634
23Western PoblacionBaras, Catanduanes149211−29.4%about 6,478
24FranciaVirac, Catanduanes1,8941,801+5.2%about 6,313
25Santa CruzSan Andres, Catanduanes190291−34.7%about 5,975
26SalvacionVirac, Catanduanes391495−21.0%about 5,951
27Santo SantiagoPanganiban, Catanduanes267281−5.0%about 5,804
28LanaoVirac, Catanduanes9761,008−3.2%about 5,775
29Libod PoblacionBato, Catanduanes942971−3.0%about 5,322
30CabugaoBato, Catanduanes3,2213,065+5.1%about 5,298
31Santa MariaPanganiban, Catanduanes222286−22.4%about 5,286
32San VicentePanganiban, Catanduanes193244−20.9%about 5,259
33IlawodBato, Catanduanes854927−7.9%about 4,771
34Divino RostroSan Andres, Catanduanes834988−15.6%about 4,766
35AsuncionViga, Catanduanes555607−8.6%about 4,625
36San Jose PoblacionViga, Catanduanes767827−7.3%about 4,459
37BagatabaoBagamanoc, Catanduanes680713−4.6%about 4,172
38NapoPandan, Catanduanes1,5051,583−4.9%about 3,919
39San RoqueSan Andres, Catanduanes105127−17.3%about 3,465
40LibodPandan, Catanduanes1,5021,634−8.1%about 3,316
41BuenavistaBaras, Catanduanes350337+3.9%about 3,097
42Sapang PalaySan Andres, Catanduanes812841−3.5%about 2,974
43BaybayCaramoran, Catanduanes721756−4.6%about 2,752
44ComagaycaySan Andres, Catanduanes1,2961,308−0.9%about 2,717
45San RoqueVirac, Catanduanes802997−19.6%about 2,546
46Poblacion District IIGigmoto, Catanduanes1,6321,775−8.1%about 2,469
47Santo DomingoVirac, Catanduanes1,5671,434+9.3%about 2,429
48BugaoBagamanoc, Catanduanes641698−8.2%about 2,374
49Calatagan ProperVirac, Catanduanes3,2053,335−3.9%about 2,257
50BacakBagamanoc, Catanduanes488540−9.6%about 2,239
51WagdasSan Andres, Catanduanes545667−18.3%about 2,163
52ConstantinoVirac, Catanduanes638811−21.3%about 2,065
53BelmonteSan Andres, Catanduanes1,0861,113−2.4%about 1,978
54San Isidro VillageVirac, Catanduanes5,5015,459+0.8%about 1,834
55CavinitanVirac, Catanduanes3,9003,959−1.5%about 1,765
56Palnab Del SurVirac, Catanduanes1,9761,970+0.3%about 1,703
57Datag WestCaramoran, Catanduanes1,0051,008−0.3%about 1,616
58SupangCaramoran, Catanduanes900999−9.9%about 1,590
59San Jose OcoViga, Catanduanes1,1121,169−4.9%about 1,483
60DanaoBaras, Catanduanes8151,003−18.7%about 1,408
61BigaaVirac, Catanduanes3,2873,383−2.8%about 1,387
62WagdasPandan, Catanduanes654664−1.5%about 1,383
63Pandan Del SurPandan, Catanduanes1,054949+11.1%about 1,350
64CapilihanVirac, Catanduanes1,5761,529+3.1%about 1,292
65San NicolasPanganiban, Catanduanes419438−4.3%about 1,289
66AlibuagSan Andres, Catanduanes645661−2.4%about 1,208
67TubaonVirac, Catanduanes1,2261,099+11.6%about 1,202
68MayngawaySan Andres, Catanduanes2,3502,556−8.1%about 1,181
69San RafaelBagamanoc, Catanduanes967583+65.9%about 1,132
70IcanbatoCaramoran, Catanduanes750823−8.9%about 1,071
71Poblacion District IIIGigmoto, Catanduanes766776−1.3%about 1,070
72ValenciaVirac, Catanduanes2,2431,982+13.2%about 1,068
73PutsanBaras, Catanduanes694543+27.8%about 1,044
74Palta SalvacionVirac, Catanduanes1,2991,234+5.3%about 999
75AntipoloBagamanoc, Catanduanes655781−16.1%about 938
76Pandan Del NortePandan, Catanduanes789948−16.8%about 880
77GuinobatanBato, Catanduanes1,1971,193+0.3%about 843
78CoboPandan, Catanduanes835876−4.7%about 811
79San PedroViga, Catanduanes465522−10.9%about 788
80OsmeñaBaras, Catanduanes626559+12.0%about 770
81BinanuahanBato, Catanduanes1,8692,098−10.9%about 769
82CalabniganVirac, Catanduanes783770+1.7%about 768
83SalvacionBaras, Catanduanes391322+21.4%about 765
84IgangVirac, Catanduanes832848−1.9%about 743
85Bagong SirangBaras, Catanduanes408379+7.7%about 740
86Datag EastCaramoran, Catanduanes1,1241,182−4.9%about 730
87MoningBaras, Catanduanes408490−16.7%about 687
88San JoseSan Andres, Catanduanes493492+0.2%about 674
89San AndresBato, Catanduanes440437+0.7%about 673
90CabcabSan Andres, Catanduanes2,7262,855−4.5%about 665
91BagawangPandan, Catanduanes1,0081,044−3.5%about 630
92LourdesPandan, Catanduanes425487−12.7%about 623
93PaniqueCaramoran, Catanduanes1,3001,317−1.3%about 616
94BothoanCaramoran, Catanduanes1,0041,063−5.6%about 612
95BuenavistaVirac, Catanduanes490440+11.4%about 612
96Santa MesaBagamanoc, Catanduanes225259−13.1%about 610
97AgojoSan Andres, Catanduanes1,3071,260+3.7%about 594
98Puting BaybaySan Andres, Catanduanes435448−2.9%about 592
99Antipolo Del SurVirac, Catanduanes598621−3.7%about 592
100MarilimaVirac, Catanduanes408356+14.6%about 592

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. 1.Philippine Statistics Authority. Total Population, Household Population, and Number of Households by Province, City, Municipality, and Barangay as of 01 July 2024: Bicol Region (OpenSTAT table 0051A6DTPH4). Published August 4, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
  2. 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. 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. 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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