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Land Ownership in Baco, Oriental Mindoro

(2020 Census of Population and Housing)

37.5 percent households in Baco, Oriental Mindoro own other land

Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), 3,443 households or 37.5 percent of the total 9,182 households in Baco, 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 27 barangays of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Barangay Lantuyang had the highest proportion of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy, with 97.1 percent or 270 households. It was followed by Barangay Baras with 92.0 percent or 276 households, and Barangay San Ignacio with 65.3 percent or 329 households. Moreover, Barangay Malapad reported 64.8 percent or 70 households and Barangay Bayanan with 56.4 percent or 212 households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy.

Meanwhile, Barangay Pambisan had the lowest proportion of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy with 3.4 percent or 10 households.

29.4 percent households in Baco, Oriental Mindoro own agricultural land/s

Of the total 9,182 households, 2,699 (29.4 percent) were reported to own agricultural land/s. Households that owned other residential land/s totaled to 1,905 (20.7 percent) while households that owned agricultural land/s acquired through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), as agrarian reform beneficiary reached 248 (2.7 percent). Only four households (0.04 percent) had members that owned other types of lands.

Barangay San Ignacio posts the highes number of households that own residential lands

Barangay San Ignacio posted the highest number of households that own residential lands, with 253 households, or 13.3 percent of the total 9,182 households that own residential lands in Baco, Oriental Mindoro.

It was followed by Barangay Bayanan with 201 households (10.6 percent), Barangay Dulangan II with 180 households (9.4 percent), Barangay Poblacion with 158 households (8.3 percent), and Barangay Mangangan I with 155 (8.1 percent) of the total households that own residential lands in Baco, Oriental Mindoro.

Barangay Lantuyang, on the other hand, recorded zero households that own residential lands in the municipality.

Number of households that own agricultural lands were highest in Barangay Baras

The Barangay of Baras had the highest number of households that own agricultural lands with 275 households or 10.2 percent of the total number of households that own agricultural land in Baco, Oriental Mindoro. It was followed by Barangay San Ignacio and Barangay Lantuyang, with 268 and 267 households, each, Barangay Mangangan I with 245 households (9.1 percent), and Barangay Poblacion with 161 households (6.0 percent).

Ownership of agricultural lands was least in the barangay of Pambisan with 3 households (0.1 percent) in the municipality of Baco, Oriental Mindoro.

Barangay Alag has the highest agricultural land ownership acquired through CARP

The highest number of households that own agricultural lands acquired through the CARP in the municipality of Baco, Oriental Mindoro was registered in the Barangay Alag with 72 households or 29.0 percent. It was followed by the Barangay Malapad with 40 households (16.1 percent) and Barangay San Ignacio with 28 households (11.3 percent).

Barangays Pulang-tubig, Sta. Rosa II, and Baras reported zero households that owned agricultural lands acquired through CARP.

Barangay Poblacion registers the highesnumber of households that own other types of land

The number of households that own other types of land was highest in Barangay Poblacion, with 2 households owning other types of land in the municipality of Baco, Oriental Mindoro. Other types of land include those used for commercial, industrial, or recreational purposes. This was followed by Barangays Catwiran I and San Ignacio, with 1 household, each.

The remaining barangays had no recorded households that owned other types of land.

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

MJHD

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).