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Land Ownership in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro

(2020 Census of Population and Housing)

35.8 percent households in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro own other land

In the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), 6,648 households or 35.8 percent of the total 18,568 households in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro reported that they own at least one land apart from the land that they own/occupy at the time of the census.

Among the 36 barangays of Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro, Barangay Batangan had the highest percentage of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy, with 95.1 percent or 308 households. It was followed by Barangay Lisap, which had 82.6 percent or 1,216 households, and Barangay Tawas, with 69.1 percent or 271 households.

Meanwhile, Barangay Luna had the lowest proportion of households with at least one type of land they owned other than the land they occupy with 5.8 percent or 21 households.

29.5 percent households in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro own agricultural land/s

Out of the total 18,568 households, 5,469 (29.5 percent) were reported to own agricultural land/s. A total of 2,976 households (16.0 percent) owned other residential land/s, while 192 households (1.0 percent) were agrarian reform beneficiaries who owned agricultural land acquired through the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Only eight households (0.04 percent) had members who owned other types of land.

Barangay Hagan records the biggest number of households that own residential lands

Barangay Hagan recorded the highest number of households that own residential lands, with 390 households, or 13.1 percent of the total 18,568 households that own residential lands in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro.

Among the 36 barangays with the highest number of households that own residential lands were Barangay Hagan with 390 households (13.1percent), Barangay Lisap with 266 households (8.9 percent), Barangay Formon with 246 households (8.3 percent), Barangay Carmundo with 164 households (5.5 percent), and Barangay Anilao with 131 (4.4 percent) of the total households that own residential lands in the municipality.

On the other hand, Barangay Luna recorded the fewest households that own residential lands in the municipality, with two households (0.1 percent).

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

Barangay Lisap had the highest number of households that own agricultural lands with 1,192 households or 21.8 percent of the total number of households that own agricultural land in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro. It was followed by Barangay Hagan, with 555 households (10.1 percent), and Barangay Batangan, with 306 households (5.6 percent).

Ownership of agricultural lands was least in Barangay Luna with 20 households (0.4 percent) in the municipality.

Ownership of agricultural lands acquired through CARP is most common in Barangay Cawayan

The highest number of households that own agricultural lands acquired through the CARP in the municipality of Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro was registered in Barangay Cawayan with 42 households or 21.9 percent. It was followed by the Barangay Mapang with 31 households (16.1 percent), and Barangay Anilao with 18 households (9.4 percent).

Eight barangays – namely, Hagupit, Kaligtasan, Luna, Polusahi, San Juan, Bagumbayan I, Bagumbayan II, and Mina de Oro – reported no recorded number of households that owned agricultural lands acquired through CARP.

Only eight barangays have one household each that own other types of land

Eight barangays, namely Anilao, Bukal, Cawayan, Formon, Hagan, San Juan, Aplaya, and Bagumbayan I, each had one household that owned other types of land, representing 12.5 percents each. Other types of land include those used for commercial, industrial, or recreational purposes. The remaining barangays had no recorded households owning 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).