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Densest barangays in Negros Island Region

Barangay 29 (Bacolod City, Negros Occidental) is the most crowded of the 1,353 barangays in Negros Island Region: about 51,390 people for every km² in 2024.[1, 2, 3, 4]

Below are the first 100 of 1,353 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 Negros Island Region, top 100
RankNameCity or municipalityPeople, 2024People, 2020Change since 2020People per km²
1Barangay 29Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,7011,648+3.2%about 51,390
2Zone 3Talisay City, Negros Occidental6,7536,587+2.5%about 30,419
3Barangay 35Bacolod City, Negros Occidental9,0188,441+6.8%about 30,060
4Zone 11Talisay City, Negros Occidental1,2151,333−8.9%about 30,000
5Barangay 16Bacolod City, Negros Occidental8,2047,568+8.4%about 29,725
6Barangay 30Bacolod City, Negros Occidental2,3942,606−8.1%about 29,195
7Barangay 2Bacolod City, Negros Occidental3,5673,276+8.9%about 29,000
8Barangay 34Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,2131,111+9.2%about 28,881
9Barangay 27Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,5041,731−13.1%about 24,455
10Barangay 3Bacolod City, Negros Occidental3,1822,894+10.0%about 23,570
11Barangay 14Bacolod City, Negros Occidental2,0022,170−7.7%about 23,361
12Barangay 6 Pob.Cadiz City, Negros Occidental5,5375,843−5.2%about 23,265
13Zone 4-ATalisay City, Negros Occidental1,5861,620−2.1%about 22,307
14HandumananBacolod City, Negros Occidental30,76029,396+4.6%about 21,662
15Zone IMurcia, Negros Occidental1,8561,928−3.7%about 21,407
16Zone 14-ATalisay City, Negros Occidental791929−14.9%about 20,981
17Zone 5Talisay City, Negros Occidental2,1732,146+1.3%about 20,695
18Poblacion No. 2Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental1,0751,055+1.9%about 20,019
19Barangay Zone 1-APulupandan, Negros Occidental1,4141,391+1.7%about 19,666
20Poblacion No. 1Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental2,1292,141−0.6%about 19,009
21Barangay IHinigaran, Negros Occidental3,2913,342−1.5%about 18,914
22Barangay IIHinigaran, Negros Occidental3,9013,916−0.4%about 18,755
23Barangay 26Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,3431,411−4.8%about 18,653
24Barangay II-AManapla, Negros Occidental919908+1.2%about 17,879
25Barangay Zone 1Pulupandan, Negros Occidental1,8051,820−0.8%about 17,871
26Zone VMurcia, Negros Occidental9371,083−13.5%about 17,067
27Barangay 20Bacolod City, Negros Occidental904888+1.8%about 17,057
28Barangay VISan Carlos City, Negros Occidental5,0345,364−6.2%about 16,780
29Barangay VIIVictorias City, Negros Occidental3,9333,799+3.5%about 16,736
30Barangay IISilay City, Negros Occidental2,4762,625−5.7%about 14,916
31Barangay 1Bacolod City, Negros Occidental5,3135,424−2.1%about 14,799
32Barangay IIVictorias City, Negros Occidental9681,063−8.9%about 14,535
33Barangay IIISan Carlos City, Negros Occidental3,1723,201−0.9%about 14,484
34Poblacion No. 8Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental1,4901,569−5.0%about 14,327
35Zone 4Talisay City, Negros Occidental846927−8.7%about 14,171
36Barangay Zone 3Pulupandan, Negros Occidental1,026832+23.3%about 13,644
37MambulacSilay City, Negros Occidental18,77718,581+1.1%about 13,607
38Barangay VSan Carlos City, Negros Occidental6,9027,185−3.9%about 13,147
39Barangay 18Bacolod City, Negros Occidental673734−8.3%about 13,043
40Poblacion IXTanjay City, Negros Oriental4,6891,424+229.3%about 12,953
41Barangay IVictorias City, Negros Occidental3,7523,585+4.7%about 12,633
42Barangay IXVictorias City, Negros Occidental5,7645,648+2.1%about 12,585
43Barangay 6Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,6922,147−21.2%about 12,350
44Barangay 5 Pob.Cadiz City, Negros Occidental696779−10.7%about 12,319
45Barangay 1 Pob.Cadiz City, Negros Occidental5,4305,916−8.2%about 12,202
46BoycoBayawan City, Negros Oriental1,4651,407+4.1%about 11,815
47Barangay Zone 6Pulupandan, Negros Occidental2,9382,952−0.5%about 11,388
48Barangay 3Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental440479−8.1%about 11,311
49Barangay 28Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,2801,511−15.3%about 11,228
50Zone IVMurcia, Negros Occidental654535+22.2%about 11,104
51Barangay IBais City, Negros Oriental3,5233,478+1.3%about 11,079
52Zone 2Talisay City, Negros Occidental2,1342,085+2.4%about 11,057
53Zone 9Talisay City, Negros Occidental822951−13.6%about 10,830
54Poblacion VITanjay City, Negros Oriental3,9843,233+23.2%about 10,826
55Barangay 23Bacolod City, Negros Occidental701632+10.9%about 10,752
56Barangay I-BManapla, Negros Occidental1,2601,256+0.3%about 10,080
57Singcang-AirportBacolod City, Negros Occidental34,55633,501+3.2%about 9,789
58TinagoBayawan City, Negros Oriental3,1713,191−0.6%about 9,727
59Zone IIIMurcia, Negros Occidental658575+14.4%about 9,676
60Barangay 3 Pob.Cadiz City, Negros Occidental2,5652,753−6.8%about 9,500
61Zone 7Talisay City, Negros Occidental738764−3.4%about 9,202
62Barangay IVHinigaran, Negros Occidental1,7171,732−0.9%about 8,896
63Zone 6Talisay City, Negros Occidental1,5341,580−2.9%about 8,867
64TaculingBacolod City, Negros Occidental44,04442,052+4.7%about 8,826
65Zone 8Talisay City, Negros Occidental384441−12.9%about 8,807
66Barangay IIIVictorias City, Negros Occidental1,3291,454−8.6%about 8,743
67LoocDumaguete City, Negros Oriental4,9904,063+22.8%about 8,678
68MontevistaBacolod City, Negros Occidental1,0791,191−9.4%about 8,563
69Poblacion IEnrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental2,4032,459−2.3%about 8,491
70Barangay 9Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental3,1463,052+3.1%about 8,434
71Barangay 32Bacolod City, Negros Occidental632682−7.3%about 8,327
72BanagoBacolod City, Negros Occidental27,59327,016+2.1%about 8,311
73Punta TaytayBacolod City, Negros Occidental7,4907,426+0.9%about 8,258
74Barangay VI-AVictorias City, Negros Occidental6,5036,287+3.4%about 8,149
75Zone 10Talisay City, Negros Occidental8,6768,697−0.2%about 8,033
76San TeodoroBinalbagan, Negros Occidental1,8741,931−3.0%about 7,974
77Barangay IIManapla, Negros Occidental1,4741,461+0.9%about 7,840
78Barangay 2Sipalay City, Negros Occidental4,0914,087+0.1%about 7,807
79Barangay 36Bacolod City, Negros Occidental1,3191,321−0.2%about 7,624
80Poblacion IIIEnrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental2,8332,776+2.1%about 7,595
81TagdaHinigaran, Negros Occidental7,9327,983−0.6%about 7,483
82PoblacionValladolid, Negros Occidental3,5993,618−0.5%about 7,467
83Barangay 4 Pob.Cadiz City, Negros Occidental3,1062,997+3.6%about 7,395
84Barangay 2Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental124125−0.8%about 7,381
85Poblacion VTanjay City, Negros Oriental7221,022−29.4%about 7,375
86Poblacion IIITanjay City, Negros Oriental1,5542,001−22.3%about 7,096
87Barangay 4Isabela, Negros Occidental9191,013−9.3%about 7,069
88Barangay Zone 5Pulupandan, Negros Occidental1,3831,399−1.1%about 7,020
89BatinguelDumaguete City, Negros Oriental13,3809,965+34.3%about 6,862
90NayonSan Enrique, Negros Occidental1,1861,155+2.7%about 6,855
91Barangay IHimamaylan City, Negros Occidental1,6201,678−3.5%about 6,835
92Barangay 3Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental1,7421,710+1.9%about 6,831
93BataBacolod City, Negros Occidental28,01927,357+2.4%about 6,784
94South PoblacionBacong, Negros Oriental1,4581,492−2.3%about 6,781
95Zone IIMurcia, Negros Occidental456493−7.5%about 6,746
96Barangay Zone 7Pulupandan, Negros Occidental7891,260−37.4%about 6,744
97BolocbolocSibulan, Negros Oriental9,3239,495−1.8%about 6,659
98AlijisBacolod City, Negros Occidental24,09822,608+6.6%about 6,639
99TacloboDumaguete City, Negros Oriental9,0949,458−3.9%about 6,638
100Barangay IISan Carlos City, Negros Occidental6,3366,488−2.3%about 6,607

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: Negros Island Region (NIR) (OpenSTAT table 0181A6DTHP7). Published August 7, 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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