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Densest barangays in the Philippines

Barangay 713 (Manila) is the most crowded of the 42,005 barangays in the Philippines: about 396,023 people for every km² in 2024.^{[1, 3, 4, 5]}

Below are the first 100 of 42,005 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 the Philippines, top 100
Rank	Name	City or municipality	People, 2024	People, 2020	Change since 2020	People per km²
1	Barangay 713	Manila	2,091	1,964	+6.5%	about 396,023
2	Barangay 843	Manila	9,355	8,744	+7.0%	about 325,958
3	Barangay 99	Manila	3,682	6,310	−41.7%	about 283,231
4	Barangay 60	Manila	3,800	4,503	−15.6%	about 277,372
5	Barangay 736	Manila	3,825	3,806	+0.5%	about 260,204
6	Barangay 375	Manila	4,466	3,909	+14.3%	about 255,200
7	Barangay 775	Manila	12,116	12,084	+0.3%	about 248,279
8	Barangay 48	Manila	4,191	4,070	+3.0%	about 246,529
9	Barangay 707	Manila	1,081	1,052	+2.8%	about 244,570
10	Barangay 37	Manila	2,456	2,057	+19.4%	about 243,168
11	Barangay 125	Manila	3,749	4,510	−16.9%	about 241,871
12	Barangay 152	Manila	6,016	6,218	−3.3%	about 237,787
13	Barangay 73	Manila	2,394	2,478	−3.4%	about 230,192
14	Barangay 120	Manila	3,886	3,873	+0.3%	about 227,251
15	Barangay 43	Manila	2,949	3,362	−12.3%	about 226,846
16	Barangay 850	Manila	2,655	2,456	+8.1%	about 225,000
17	Barangay 38	Manila	3,144	2,870	+9.6%	about 224,571
18	Barangay 187	Pasay City	5,321	4,629	+15.0%	about 222,636
19	Barangay 80	Manila	2,566	2,553	+0.5%	about 217,458
20	Barangay 737	Manila	2,615	2,209	+18.4%	about 216,116
21	Barangay 230	Manila	2,376	2,364	+0.5%	about 216,000
22	Barangay 648	Manila	9,086	5,634	+61.3%	about 213,788
23	Barangay 901	Manila	1,616	1,610	+0.4%	about 213,474
24	Barangay 397	Manila	8,835	4,175	+111.6%	about 213,406
25	Barangay 182	Pasay City	2,938	2,906	+1.1%	about 212,899
26	Barangay 112	Manila	5,840	5,593	+4.4%	about 211,594
27	Barangay 823	Manila	3,590	3,002	+19.6%	about 208,721
28	Barangay 11	Manila	2,790	2,758	+1.2%	about 208,209
29	Barangay 183	Manila	8,512	8,424	+1.0%	about 205,604
30	Barangay 79	Manila	1,601	1,520	+5.3%	about 203,173
31	Barangay 154	Pasay City	1,065	743	+43.3%	about 202,087
32	Barangay 117	Manila	4,262	4,160	+2.5%	about 201,991
33	Barangay 373	Manila	3,977	3,788	+5.0%	about 201,878
34	Barangay 5	Pasay City	2,837	6,081	−53.4%	about 199,789
35	Barangay 818-A	Manila	1,659	1,574	+5.4%	about 197,500
36	Barangay 795	Manila	1,214	1,157	+4.9%	about 196,123
37	Barangay 754	Manila	2,595	2,584	+0.4%	about 195,113
38	Barangay 13	Manila	2,435	2,371	+2.7%	about 194,800
39	Barangay 871	Manila	2,480	2,407	+3.0%	about 193,750
40	Barangay 102	Manila	4,616	4,157	+11.0%	about 192,333
41	Barangay 36	Manila	2,267	2,231	+1.6%	about 192,119
42	Barangay 70	Manila	2,405	2,344	+2.6%	about 187,891
43	Barangay 189	Pasay City	3,437	2,431	+41.4%	about 187,814
44	Barangay 41	Manila	3,957	3,825	+3.5%	about 186,651
45	Barangay 860	Manila	3,480	3,214	+8.3%	about 186,096
46	Barangay 111	Manila	2,676	2,661	+0.6%	about 183,288
47	Barangay 33	Manila	4,343	4,082	+6.4%	about 180,958
48	Barangay 155	Manila	3,292	3,257	+1.1%	about 180,879
49	Barangay 821	Manila	2,474	1,995	+24.0%	about 180,584
50	Barangay 67	Manila	3,641	4,083	−10.8%	about 180,248
51	Barangay 14	Pasay City	4,807	4,769	+0.8%	about 180,037
52	Barangay 787	Manila	3,646	3,622	+0.7%	about 179,606
53	Barangay 717	Manila	491	479	+2.5%	about 177,899
54	Barangay 739	Manila	4,598	4,530	+1.5%	about 176,846
55	Barangay 228	Manila	2,697	3,010	−10.4%	about 176,275
56	Barangay 31	Manila	3,101	2,881	+7.6%	about 176,193
57	Barangay 157	Pasay City	2,519	2,242	+12.4%	about 176,154
58	Barangay 215	Manila	3,147	3,106	+1.3%	about 175,810
59	Barangay 770	Manila	9,673	9,651	+0.2%	about 175,236
60	Takut-takut	Jolo, Sulu	8,500	8,123	+4.6%	about 172,764
61	Barangay 469	Manila	2,424	1,956	+23.9%	about 170,704
62	Barangay 716	Manila	836	920	−9.1%	about 169,919
63	Barangay 14	Manila	2,479	2,070	+19.8%	about 169,795
64	Barangay 274	Manila	2,062	1,944	+6.1%	about 169,016
65	Barangay 133	Caloocan City	5,690	5,587	+1.8%	about 166,862
66	Barangay 828	Manila	2,715	2,658	+2.1%	about 166,564
67	Barangay 34	Manila	1,930	1,854	+4.1%	about 166,379
68	Barangay 180	Pasay City	1,608	2,059	−21.9%	about 164,754
69	Barangay 817	Manila	1,395	1,716	−18.7%	about 164,699
70	Barangay 122	Manila	3,830	3,824	+0.2%	about 163,675
71	Barangay 43	Pasay City	2,734	2,620	+4.4%	about 162,738
72	Barangay 868	Manila	3,002	2,850	+5.3%	about 161,398
73	Barangay 132	Caloocan City	8,163	7,961	+2.5%	about 161,324
74	Barangay 145	Caloocan City	4,886	4,705	+3.9%	about 161,254
75	Barangay 36	Pasay City	5,575	3,799	+46.8%	about 160,663
76	Barangay 54	Pasay City	1,499	1,479	+1.4%	about 159,638
77	Barangay 85	Manila	4,051	4,032	+0.5%	about 158,863
78	Barangay 108	Manila	5,114	5,391	−5.1%	about 158,820
79	Barangay 310	Manila	13,761	13,602	+1.2%	about 158,172
80	Barangay 374	Manila	4,221	3,277	+28.8%	about 158,090
81	Barangay 849	Manila	1,908	1,849	+3.2%	about 157,686
82	Barangay 179	Pasay City	7,649	6,692	+14.3%	about 157,387
83	Barangay 15	Manila	1,104	1,119	−1.3%	about 157,265
84	Barangay 819	Manila	2,280	2,007	+13.6%	about 155,102
85	Barangay 1	Pasay City	3,935	2,275	+73.0%	about 154,314
86	Barangay 774	Manila	2,909	2,878	+1.1%	about 153,915
87	Barangay 144	Caloocan City	4,630	4,533	+2.1%	about 153,821
88	Carbon	Isabela City, Basilan	7,501	4,362	+72.0%	about 153,395
89	Barangay 103	Manila	5,071	4,772	+6.3%	about 153,202
90	Barangay 46	Pasay City	5,864	5,783	+1.4%	about 153,107
91	Barangay 766	Manila	3,321	3,101	+7.1%	about 152,339
92	Barangay 151	Caloocan City	5,377	5,177	+3.9%	about 150,616
93	Barangay 134	Pasay City	1,867	1,686	+10.7%	about 150,565
94	Barangay 61	Pasay City	3,154	2,503	+26.0%	about 149,479
95	Escopa I	Quezon City	2,268	2,110	+7.5%	about 149,211
96	Barangay 95	Manila	4,994	5,543	−9.9%	about 149,075
97	Barangay 35	Manila	2,289	2,265	+1.1%	about 148,636
98	Barangay 711	Manila	1,308	1,294	+1.1%	about 148,468
99	Barangay 145	Pasay City	10,288	8,758	+17.5%	about 148,242
100	Barangay 143	Caloocan City	3,556	3,434	+3.6%	about 148,167

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 : National Captial Region (NCR) (OpenSTAT table 0171A6DTHP6). Published August 5, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
2.Philippine Statistics Authority. Total Population, Household Population, and Number of Households by Province, City, Municipality, and Barangay as of 01 July 2024: Zamboanga Peninsula (OpenSTAT table 0091A6DTPH8). Published August 5, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. CC BY (PSA Terms of Use). Open the source
3.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
4.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
5.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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