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Densest barangays in Nueva Ecija

San Roque Sur (Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija) is the most crowded of the 849 barangays in Nueva Ecija: about 65,477 people for every km² in 2024.[1, 2, 3, 4]

Below are the first 100 of 849 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 Nueva Ecija, top 100
RankNameCity or municipalityPeople, 2024People, 2020Change since 2020People per km²
1San Roque SurCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,5781,314+20.1%about 65,477
2Bonifacio DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija3,1273,041+2.8%about 27,920
3NabaoCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija966703+37.4%about 26,833
4General LunaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,4881,516−1.9%about 23,770
5DicarmaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija4,4714,344+2.9%about 23,408
6MataderoCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,0691,010+5.8%about 22,553
7M. S. GarciaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija6,5816,148+7.0%about 22,158
8Villa Ofelia-CaridadCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,5331,315+16.6%about 21,683
9Aduas SurCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija7,6167,640−0.3%about 21,393
10San GregorioSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,024976+4.9%about 17,902
11Vijandre DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,0971,096+0.1%about 17,276
12SanbermicristiCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,2701,298−2.2%about 17,209
13RizdelisCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija804784+2.6%about 16,145
14Bantug BulaloCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija2,4742,009+23.2%about 15,859
15Sangitan EastCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,4651,531−4.3%about 15,470
16Imelda DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija3,7173,639+2.1%about 15,360
17Barrera DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija5,2175,290−1.4%about 15,254
18FatimaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija555777−28.6%about 14,683
19Purok MatiasTalavera, Nueva Ecija1,5341,444+6.2%about 14,204
20PolilioCabiao, Nueva Ecija1,7891,510+18.5%about 13,656
21San GregorioCabiao, Nueva Ecija2,3382,151+8.7%about 13,514
22MantileBongabon, Nueva Ecija1,6911,399+20.9%about 13,421
23San Roque NorteCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija877944−7.1%about 13,410
24Mabini ExtensionCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija3,2803,208+2.2%about 12,664
25CaridadCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,9231,905+0.9%about 12,487
26Maria TheresaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija987969+1.9%about 12,478
27BurgosSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,4351,422+0.9%about 12,478
28Santo NiñoGapan City, Nueva Ecija5,4555,019+8.7%about 12,426
29Esguerra DistrictTalavera, Nueva Ecija3,4373,563−3.5%about 12,319
30Poblacion WestScience City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija3,8513,247+18.6%about 12,072
31SampaguitaGeneral Tinio, Nueva Ecija1,8751,834+2.2%about 12,019
32MabiniSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,8481,819+1.6%about 12,000
33Bagong BuhayCabiao, Nueva Ecija1,5351,538−0.2%about 11,718
34Padre CrisostomoCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija4,2764,298−0.5%about 11,683
35Crisanto Sanchez Pob.San Jose City, Nueva Ecija1,1361,133+0.3%about 11,604
36Canuto Ramos Pob.San Jose City, Nueva Ecija1,9822,069−4.2%about 11,391
37San Juan Pob.Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija8,6668,772−1.2%about 11,110
38San VicenteGapan City, Nueva Ecija9,3049,092+2.3%about 10,946
39Barangay IIQuezon, Nueva Ecija1,394686+103.2%about 10,891
40CojuangcoSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija2,6132,604+0.4%about 10,842
41San LorenzoGapan City, Nueva Ecija6,9345,933+16.9%about 10,554
42SocialBongabon, Nueva Ecija868795+9.2%about 10,176
43PoblacionSanto Domingo, Nueva Ecija861774+11.2%about 10,047
44Raymundo Eugenio Pob.San Jose City, Nueva Ecija1,2051,218−1.1%about 9,877
45San NicolasGapan City, Nueva Ecija12,36013,142−6.0%about 9,656
46Natividad NorthCabiao, Nueva Ecija641575+11.5%about 9,610
47Sisilang na LigayaBongabon, Nueva Ecija563587−4.1%about 9,608
48San Josef SurCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija7,5317,785−3.3%about 9,606
49District ICuyapo, Nueva Ecija9531,015−6.1%about 9,597
50CommercialBongabon, Nueva Ecija281208+35.1%about 9,336
51PalasinanCabiao, Nueva Ecija3,7293,578+4.2%about 9,051
52SampalucanBongabon, Nueva Ecija1,5761,525+3.3%about 8,955
53Santa Veronica DistrictGuimba, Nueva Ecija3,9123,873+1.0%about 8,674
54DimasalangCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,0751,281−16.1%about 8,600
55QuezonTalugtug, Nueva Ecija1,3451,230+9.4%about 8,513
56Mabini HomesiteCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija5,5405,501+0.7%about 8,394
57Poblacion CentralRizal, Nueva Ecija657643+2.2%about 8,243
58Poblacion EastRizal, Nueva Ecija2,1632,025+6.8%about 8,162
59Pag-asaTalavera, Nueva Ecija4,9045,162−5.0%about 8,079
60ZamoraSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,3201,306+1.1%about 7,952
61Southeast PoblacionNampicuan, Nueva Ecija454450+0.9%about 7,951
62Aduas NorteCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija5,9765,755+3.8%about 7,874
63West PoblacionNampicuan, Nueva Ecija585744−21.4%about 7,863
64San Josef NorteCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija4,8674,684+3.9%about 7,800
65LourdesSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija3,3492,695+24.3%about 7,717
66Natividad SouthCabiao, Nueva Ecija949960−1.2%about 7,715
67RizalSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija2,1202,083+1.8%about 7,599
68East Central PoblacionNampicuan, Nueva Ecija433408+6.1%about 7,427
69Poblacion EastScience City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija1,9432,006−3.1%about 7,332
70Saint John DistrictGuimba, Nueva Ecija1,7861,777+0.5%about 7,290
71San AntonioCabiao, Nueva Ecija2,4462,340+4.5%about 7,237
72Magsaysay DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija4,2084,242−0.8%about 7,205
73District VCuyapo, Nueva Ecija878887−1.0%about 7,081
74Poblacion SouthLupao, Nueva Ecija1,6381,700−3.7%about 6,911
75Dionisio S. GarciaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija7,4887,405+1.1%about 6,870
76Bakal IIITalavera, Nueva Ecija6,8636,555+4.7%about 6,863
77Bantug NorteCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija8,9678,686+3.2%about 6,793
78Padre BurgosCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija301328−8.2%about 6,586
79Abar IstSan Jose City, Nueva Ecija22,56421,214+6.4%about 6,578
80Magsaysay SouthCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija2,5852,419+6.9%about 6,274
81Saranay DistrictGuimba, Nueva Ecija2,6312,591+1.5%about 6,235
82Bernardo DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,0001,144−12.6%about 6,211
83MelojavillaCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija429387+10.9%about 6,208
84San Juan SouthCabiao, Nueva Ecija424498−14.9%about 6,181
85South Central PoblacionNampicuan, Nueva Ecija549541+1.5%about 6,066
86Ferdinand E. Marcos Pob.San Jose City, Nueva Ecija1,0781,550−30.5%about 6,056
87Poblacion SouthScience City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija1,9731,790+10.2%about 6,034
88Rafael Rueda, Sr. Pob.San Jose City, Nueva Ecija1,7631,867−5.6%about 5,976
89Del PilarSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,2531,359−7.8%about 5,938
90District IVCuyapo, Nueva Ecija1,3761,372+0.3%about 5,931
91Kapitan PepeCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija5,1454,795+7.3%about 5,887
92South PoblacionGabaldon, Nueva Ecija4,7614,687+1.6%about 5,871
93Aduas CentroCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija5,1515,116+0.7%about 5,867
94Quezon DistrictCabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija1,3811,648−16.2%about 5,827
95ValenzuelaSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija2,6352,682−1.8%about 5,817
96Bagong SilangCabiao, Nueva Ecija4,7904,270+12.2%about 5,583
97QuirinoTalugtug, Nueva Ecija1,0841,075+0.8%about 5,531
98San IsidroZaragoza, Nueva Ecija7,2286,130+17.9%about 5,518
99Southwest PoblacionNampicuan, Nueva Ecija821816+0.6%about 5,437
100TramoSanta Rosa, Nueva Ecija1,2071,550−22.1%about 5,317

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: Central Luzon (OpenSTAT table 0031A6DTPH2). Published August 5, 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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