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Land Ownership in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro

(2020 Census of Population and Housing)

32.4 percent in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro own other land

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), 3,965 households or 32.4 percent of the total 12,250 households in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro reported that they own at least one type of land apart from the land that they own/occupy at the time of the census.

Among the 32 Barangays of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro, Barangay Concepcion had the highest proportion of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy, with 87.1 percent or 162 households. It was followed by Barangay Villa Cerveza with 55.9 percent or 293 households, and Barangay San Cristobal with 54.8 percent or 86 households. Moreover, Barangay San Gabriel reported 54.2 percent or 167 households and Barangay Bethel with 44.9 percent or 92 households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy.

Meanwhile, Barangay Bagong Buhay had the lowest proportion of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy with 13.9 percent or 41 households.

22.8 percent households in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro owns agricultural land/s

Of the total 12,250 households, 2,797 (22.8 percent) were reported to own agricultural land/s. Households that owned other residential land/s totaled to 2,048 (16.7 percent) while households that owned agricultural land/s acquired through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), as agrarian reform beneficiary reached 160 households (1.3 percent). Only 62 households (0.5 percent) had members that owned other types of land/s.

Barangay Poblacion I posts the biggest number of households that own other residential land/s

Barangay Poblacion I posted the highest number of households that own other residential lands, with 160 or 7.8 percent of the total 2,048 households that own residential land/s in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro followed by Barangay Alcate with 145 households (7.1 percent), Barangay Ordovilla and Barangay Villa Cerveza (both with 138 households or 6.7 percent), Barangay Poblacion III with 123 households and Barangay Macatoc with 122 households (both 6.0%) of the total households that own other residential land/s in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

Barangay Bagong Buhay, on the other hand, recorded with 3 households (0.1 percent) had the fewest number of households that own residential land/s in the Municipality of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

Number of households that own agricultural land/s were highest in Barangay Alcate, Victoria Oriental Mindoro

Barangay Alcate had the highest number of households that own agricultural land/s with 222 households or 7.94 percent of the total number of households that own agricultural land in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro. It was followed by Barangay Villa Cerveza with 221 households (7.90 percent), Barangay Macatoc with 177 household (6.3 percent), Barangay Concepcion with 157 households (5.6 percent) and Barangay San Gabriel with 154 households (5.5 percent).

Ownership of agricultural lands was least in the Barangay of Sampaguita with 5 households (0.2 percent) in the municipality of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

Ownership of agricultural land/s acquired through CARP is most common in Barangay Alcate

The highest number of households that own agricultural lands acquired through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in the municipality of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro was registered in Barangay Alcate with 44 households or 27.5 percent. It was followed by the Barangay Jose Leido Jr. with 23 households (14.4 percent) and Barangay Concepcion with 22 households (13.8 percent).

However, Barangays of Duongan, Loyal, Mabini, Poblacion II and San Cristobal had no recorded number of households that owned agricultural land/s acquired through CARP in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

Barangay Villa Cerveza registers the biggest number of households that own other types of land

The number of households that own other types of land recorded the highest in Barangay Villa Cerveza with 45 households that own other types of land in the municipality of Victoria, Oriental Mindoro. Other lands include lands that are used for commercial, industrial, or recreational purposes. It was followed by the Barangay Alcate with 5 households, and Barangays of Bambanin and Merith with both 3 households.

The remaining other barangays had no recorded households that owned other types of land in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro.

The statistics presented in this report were based on the information provided by the respondent or any responsible household member who may provide accurate answers to the questions and give correct information about the household. Moreover, the number of households in this report excludes households enumerated as homeless.

In the 2020 CPH, data on the land ownership were collected by asking the respondents, “Does any member of this household own the following?

1. Other residential land/s;
2. Agricultural land/s;
3. Agricultural land/s acquired through Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, as an agrarian reform beneficiary;
4. Other land/s.

(SGD) CHARLYN ROMERO-CANTOS, PhD
(Chief Administrative Officer)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office

JAMF

TECHNICAL NOTES

The population and housing censuses in the Philippines are conducted on a “de jure” basis, wherein a person is counted in the usual place of residence or the place where the person usually resides. The enumeration of the population and collection of pertinent data in the 2020 CPH referred to all living persons as of 01 May 2020.

For land ownership in the 2020 CPH, the respondent was asked, “Does any member of this household own the following...?” This determines if the household has any member/s who own other lands aside from the one that the household is currently occupying. The data were collected using the CPH Form 2 (Common Household Questionnaire).

DEFINITION OF TERMS

Household is a social unit consisting of a person or a group of persons who sleep in the same housing unit and have a common arrangement in the preparation and consumption of food.
Agricultural Land/s refers to land/s devoted to or suitable for the cultivation of the soil, planting of crops, growing of trees, raising of livestock, poultry, fish, or aquaculture production, including the harvesting of such farm products, and other farm activities and practices performed in conjunction with such farming operations by persons whether natural or juridical and not classified by law as mineral land, forest land, residential land, commercial land, and industrial land.
Residential Land/s refers to All lands that have been identified and zoned as residential through the appropriate ordinance by the Local Government Unit (LGU) having jurisdiction over the area. These include residential lands within areas zoned as mixed residential and commercial or mixed residential and industrial (Source: RA 10023, Series of 2010).

Other Residential Land refers to residential lands that the household owns other than the one they are occupying.

Other Land/s include commercial lands, industrial lands, ancestral domains, and ancestral lands. The last two categories are distinguished from Torrens Title and other tenurial instruments granted by a government agency or by the court.

Agricultural land/s, acquired through Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, Agrarian Reform Beneficiary pertains to land ownership acquired through Emancipation Patent (EP) Holder, Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA), and
Homestead Patent (HP), Leasehold Contract (LC).