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Densest barangays in Negros Oriental

Poblacion No. 2 (Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental) is the most crowded of the 557 barangays in Negros Oriental: about 20,019 people for every km² in 2024.[1, 2, 3, 4]

Below are the first 100 of 557 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 Oriental, top 100
RankNameCity or municipalityPeople, 2024People, 2020Change since 2020People per km²
1Poblacion No. 2Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental1,0751,055+1.9%about 20,019
2Poblacion No. 1Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental2,1292,141−0.6%about 19,009
3Poblacion No. 8Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental1,4901,569−5.0%about 14,327
4Poblacion IXTanjay City, Negros Oriental4,6891,424+229.3%about 12,953
5BoycoBayawan City, Negros Oriental1,4651,407+4.1%about 11,815
6Barangay IBais City, Negros Oriental3,5233,478+1.3%about 11,079
7Poblacion VITanjay City, Negros Oriental3,9843,233+23.2%about 10,826
8TinagoBayawan City, Negros Oriental3,1713,191−0.6%about 9,727
9LoocDumaguete City, Negros Oriental4,9904,063+22.8%about 8,678
10Poblacion VTanjay City, Negros Oriental7221,022−29.4%about 7,375
11Poblacion IIITanjay City, Negros Oriental1,5542,001−22.3%about 7,096
12BatinguelDumaguete City, Negros Oriental13,3809,965+34.3%about 6,862
13South PoblacionBacong, Negros Oriental1,4581,492−2.3%about 6,781
14BolocbolocSibulan, Negros Oriental9,3239,495−1.8%about 6,659
15TacloboDumaguete City, Negros Oriental9,0949,458−3.9%about 6,638
16CalindaganDumaguete City, Negros Oriental6,3626,709−5.2%about 6,413
17Poblacion VIITanjay City, Negros Oriental1,4001,177+19.0%about 6,034
18PiapiDumaguete City, Negros Oriental5,4704,842+13.0%about 6,018
19Lo-ocBais City, Negros Oriental2,6882,543+5.7%about 5,744
20BagacayDumaguete City, Negros Oriental9,3619,592−2.4%about 5,605
21BunaoDumaguete City, Negros Oriental2,4982,723−8.3%about 5,490
22Poblacion IITanjay City, Negros Oriental9161,315−30.3%about 5,326
23TabuctubigDumaguete City, Negros Oriental1,9701,399+40.8%about 5,104
24PoblacionSibulan, Negros Oriental5,5365,517+0.3%about 4,987
25Mangnao-CanalDumaguete City, Negros Oriental3,5823,113+15.1%about 4,920
26SubaBayawan City, Negros Oriental2,3982,412−0.6%about 4,835
27MaslogSibulan, Negros Oriental6,1485,194+18.4%about 4,729
28MotongDumaguete City, Negros Oriental2,5672,429+5.7%about 4,727
29North PoblacionValencia, Negros Oriental742738+0.5%about 4,726
30PoblacionManjuyod, Negros Oriental1,1131,099+1.3%about 4,524
31DaroDumaguete City, Negros Oriental6,0796,164−1.4%about 4,503
32CadawinonanDumaguete City, Negros Oriental7,6286,887+10.8%about 4,435
33SacsacBacong, Negros Oriental4,7174,199+12.3%about 4,368
34CangmatingSibulan, Negros Oriental7,6007,360+3.3%about 4,176
35OlympiaBais City, Negros Oriental1,024980+4.5%about 4,163
36Mag-aboAmlan, Negros Oriental2,0272,175−6.8%about 4,014
37PulantubigDumaguete City, Negros Oriental2,8872,994−3.6%about 3,875
38PoblacionSan Jose, Negros Oriental801915−12.5%about 3,851
39South PoblacionValencia, Negros Oriental554557−0.5%about 3,847
40Poblacion ITanjay City, Negros Oriental1,6071,892−15.1%about 3,844
41South PoblacionJimalalud, Negros Oriental3,1151,995+56.1%about 3,753
42BajumpandanDumaguete City, Negros Oriental9,7557,880+23.8%about 3,752
43Poblacion No. 6Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental273255+7.1%about 3,719
44Poblacion ISiaton, Negros Oriental1,7631,886−6.5%about 3,673
45North PoblacionJimalalud, Negros Oriental1,5541,229+26.4%about 3,665
46OkiotBais City, Negros Oriental3,9453,822+3.2%about 3,653
47PoblacionTayasan, Negros Oriental2,4172,309+4.7%about 3,570
48BalugoDumaguete City, Negros Oriental4,4094,110+7.3%about 3,527
49BantayanDumaguete City, Negros Oriental4,2414,430−4.3%about 3,476
50North PoblacionBacong, Negros Oriental1,0001,011−1.1%about 3,436
51Poblacion IISiaton, Negros Oriental2,2112,168+2.0%about 3,300
52Poblacion IDauin, Negros Oriental1,4501,468−1.2%about 3,266
53West PoblacionBacong, Negros Oriental610660−7.6%about 3,228
54Candau-ayDumaguete City, Negros Oriental10,0519,593+4.8%about 3,191
55Poblacion IIDauin, Negros Oriental1,2201,186+2.9%about 3,112
56Tapon NorteSan Jose, Negros Oriental3,1172,935+6.2%about 3,056
57Poblacion No. 7Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental171175−2.3%about 3,037
58JunobDumaguete City, Negros Oriental6,9327,651−9.4%about 3,027
59BaniladDumaguete City, Negros Oriental9,8989,664+2.4%about 2,990
60Barangay IIBais City, Negros Oriental9,7339,483+2.6%about 2,863
61MagatasSibulan, Negros Oriental7,8656,597+19.2%about 2,850
62UbosBayawan City, Negros Oriental1,4681,600−8.3%about 2,780
63ObogonTanjay City, Negros Oriental3,5263,763−6.3%about 2,755
64TubtubonSibulan, Negros Oriental7,5177,028+7.0%about 2,704
65PoblacionAmlan, Negros Oriental1,4261,452−1.8%about 2,670
66DomologBindoy, Negros Oriental1,9741,902+3.8%about 2,660
67Tampocon IIAyungon, Negros Oriental2,1252,196−3.2%about 2,620
68BaniladBacong, Negros Oriental5,8755,512+6.6%about 2,588
69PoblacionZamboanguita, Negros Oriental6,3066,450−2.2%about 2,563
70Sundo-anManjuyod, Negros Oriental1,9441,917+1.4%about 2,548
71Poblacion SouthLa Libertad, Negros Oriental1,3811,371+0.7%about 2,506
72Balabag EastValencia, Negros Oriental4,0103,916+2.4%about 2,491
73TalungonBais City, Negros Oriental3,8643,714+4.0%about 2,461
74TupasManjuyod, Negros Oriental1,7671,723+2.6%about 2,434
75Cantil-eDumaguete City, Negros Oriental5,1384,697+9.4%about 2,401
76Poblacion IIIDauin, Negros Oriental1,000980+2.0%about 2,392
77CamanjacDumaguete City, Negros Oriental4,9694,859+2.3%about 2,322
78TalayDumaguete City, Negros Oriental5,1745,126+0.9%about 2,320
79VillarealBayawan City, Negros Oriental11,35910,730+5.9%about 2,309
80Poblacion No. 4Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental238225+5.8%about 2,267
81Poblacion VIIITanjay City, Negros Oriental1,7812,268−21.5%about 2,207
82PoblacionGuihulngan City, Negros Oriental16,90116,161+4.6%about 2,198
83Agan-anSibulan, Negros Oriental3,8462,472+55.6%about 2,125
84PoblacionMabinay, Negros Oriental7,7717,066+10.0%about 2,050
85BuntisBacong, Negros Oriental4,4943,987+12.7%about 1,997
86CombadoBacong, Negros Oriental3,6753,759−2.2%about 1,904
87JawaValencia, Negros Oriental2,6972,639+2.2%about 1,899
88Poblacion IVTanjay City, Negros Oriental2,6002,986−12.9%about 1,884
89CampuyoManjuyod, Negros Oriental3,5713,467+3.0%about 1,841
90PoblacionAyungon, Negros Oriental2,0562,036+1.0%about 1,819
91LiptongValencia, Negros Oriental1,4681,224+19.9%about 1,777
92AnibongAyungon, Negros Oriental2,1922,102+4.3%about 1,754
93Poblacion IIISiaton, Negros Oriental3,1703,608−12.1%about 1,626
94Balabag WestValencia, Negros Oriental2,5162,085+20.7%about 1,613
95Poblacion NorthLa Libertad, Negros Oriental2,6452,507+5.5%about 1,593
96PalaslanTayasan, Negros Oriental2,1192,041+3.8%about 1,536
97San MiguelBacong, Negros Oriental4,7984,762+0.8%about 1,533
98PuanVallehermoso, Negros Oriental2,4122,186+10.3%about 1,527
99LutaoBacong, Negros Oriental1,2911,298−0.5%about 1,501
100La PazBais City, Negros Oriental1,3771,169+17.8%about 1,459

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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