SPECIAL RELEASE

ETHNICITY IN PINAMALAYAN, ORIENTAL MINDORO 

(2020 Census of Population and Housing)

About nine in every ten household population has Tagalog as ethnicity

Approximately 93.0 percent (9 out of 10) of Pinamalayan's 90.11 thousand household population in 2020 identified as Tagalog. Other major ethnicities included Bisaya/Binisaya (1.3%), Tau-buid Mangyan (1.0%), and Bantoanon (0.9%).

Tagalog is the dominant ethnic group in almost all barangays

All barangays (100.0% or 37 out of 37) in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, identified Tagalog as their dominant ethnicity. The barangays of Bangbang (99.4%), Delrazon (99.5%), Inclanay (100.0%), and Rosario (99.4%) exhibited the highest level of ethnic homogeneity, with a very high percentage of residents (almost 10 out of10) identifying as Tagalog.

Conversely, barangay Sabang (61.8%), barangay Banilad (76.4%), and barangay Pili (80.8%) displayed a lower degree of ethnic homogeneity compared to other barangays.

Majority of the household population are Non-Indigenous Peoples

Among the 90.11 thousand household population, 87.72 (or 97.4%) identified as non-Indigenous Peoples (non-IPs). The remaining 2,382 residents belong to the following categories: Indigenous Peoples (IPs) identified by the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP): 2,222 (2.5%), Foreign ethnicities: 117 (0.1%), Individuals identified as both IPs and Muslim tribes by NCIP and National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF): 34 (0.04%), Muslim tribes identified by the NCMF: 9 (0.001%).

Indigenous Peoples comprise 2.5 percent of the household population

In 2020, IPs identified by NCIP comprised 2.26 thousand or 2.5 percent of the 90.11 thousand household population in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro. The top five IP groups in the barangay accounted for about 88.7 percent of the total IPs. Mangyan-Tau-buid ranked first with 902 persons (39.8%), followed by Bantoanon with 766 persons (33.8%), and Mangyan Tadyawan with 278 persons (12.3%).

Muslim tribes make up less than one percent of the household population

Muslim tribes identified by NCMF, including the tribes that were also identified as IPs by the NCIP, accounted for 43 persons or 0.05 percent of the 90.11 thousand household population in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro. Among the Muslim tribes in the barangay, Maguindanao holds the largest share with 15 persons (34.9%), followed by Tausog/Tausug with 9 persons (20.9%).

More than half of the household population with foreign ethnicity are of Swiss descent

Of the 90.11 thousand household population in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, 117 persons or 0.13 percent were reported to have foreign ethnicity. The top five foreign ethnicities accounted for 100 persons or 85.5 percent of the total foreign ethnicity in the barangay. Chinese ranked first with 61 persons (52.1%), followed by those with Swiss ethnicity with 15 persons (12.8%).

Statistics presented in this Special Release were based on the information provided by the respondent pertaining to all members of the household.

The categories of ethnicity were provided by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos.

In the 2020 CPH, data on the ethnicity of all household members were collected by asking the respondent, “What is __________’s ethnicity by descent/blood/ relation/consanguinity?”

(SGD) DONNA MARIE D. MOBE
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-in-Charge
Oriental Mindoro Provincial Statistical Office