Urban and rural barangays of the Philippines, 2024 Census

About this dataset

The urban or rural classification of every barangay of the Philippines from the 2024 Census of Population of the Philippine Statistics Authority, by its three tests: 5,000 people or more; an establishment with 100 employees or more; or five or more establishments with 10 to 99 employees and five or more facilities within two kilometres of the barangay hall. Every barangay of Metro Manila is urban. Scene shows each barangay's class and, for a city, municipality or province, how many of its people live in urban barangays.

How the figures were made: The PSA's classification from the census and its count of establishments and facilities (PSA Board Resolution No. 01, Series of 2017-098).

What Scene adds: Nothing. The figures are the source's, as it publishes them.

What it holds

Urban or rural

The class the PSA gives each barangay, and the test that made it urban.

Urban population

The people living in a place's urban barangays, as a count and a share.

Where it comes from

• Philippine Statistics Authority

  Total Population and Urban Population by Urban Classification and Region, Province, Highly Urbanized City, City/Municipality and Barangay: Philippines, 2024 (OpenSTAT table 0231A6DPUP0)

  Published August 7, 2026. Read by Scene October 2, 2026. Licence: CC BY (PSA Terms of Use).

  Open the source

  The PSA's notes for this table

  Definition: Total population defines as the sum of the household population and the institutional population, covering all persons living within a specific territory at a given reference time, including Filipinos in embassies or missions abroad. Based on PSA Board Resolution No. 01 Series of 2017-098 (National Statistical Coordination Board – Board Resolution No. 09 Series of 2003), which was approved on 13 October 2003, a barangay is classified as urban if it meets any of the following: 1. It has a population size of 5,000 or more; 2. It has at least one establishment with a minimum of 100 employee; 3. It has five or more establishments with 10 to 99 employees, and five or more facilities within the two-kilometer radius from the barangay hall. Further, all barangays in the National Capital Region are automatically classified as urban. A barangay, which does not satisfy any of the three criteria is classified as rural. The following facilities were considered in the classification of a barangay into either urban or rural under Criteria 3: i. municipal/city hall or provincial capitol ii. church, chapel or mosque where religious services are held at least once a month iii. public/town plaza or park for recreation iv. cemetery v. market place or building where trading activities are carried out at least once a week vi. public school buildings (elementary, high school, and college/university) vii. hospital, puericulture center, barangay health center/station or clinic viii. fire station or public fire protection service ix. seaport in operation x. community waterworks system xi. post office or postal service xii. landline telephone system or calling station xiii. cellular phone signal xiv. public-street sweeper The categories used in this report for classifying the barangays as urban are as follows: 1 Barangay with a population size of 5,000 or more 2 Barangay with at least one establishment with a minimum of 100 employees 3 Barangay with five or more establishments with 10 to 99 employees, and five or more facilities within the two kilometer radius from the Barangay Hall Urban population refers to persons living in urban areas. Source of Basic Data: 2024 Census of Population Level of Disaggregation: Region, Province and Highly Urbanized City, City/Municipality, and Barangay Note/s: * - Population counts for the provinces exclude the counts of Highly Urbanized Cities

How to cite it

Philippine Statistics Authority. Urban and rural barangays of the Philippines, 2024 Census, as published by Scene.ph. https://scene.ph/atlas/sources/urban-and-rural-2024. Read October 8, 2026.