SPECIAL RELEASE

ETHNICITY IN GLORIA, ORIENTAL MINDORO 

(2020 Census of Population and Housing)

About nine in every ten household population has Tagalog as ethnicity

Approximately 90.2% (9 out of 10) of Gloria's 50.42 thousand household population in 2020 identified as Tagalog. Other major ethnicities included Bisaya/Binisaya (2.7%), Tau-buid Mangyan (1.8%), and Ilocano (1.0%).

Tagalog is the dominant ethnic group in almost all barangays

100.0 percent (27 out of 27) of barangays in Gloria, Oriental Mindoro, identified Tagalog as their dominant ethnicity. The barangay of Banutan (99.0%) exhibited the highest level of ethnic homogeneity, with a very high percentage of residents (almost 10 out of 10) identifying as Tagalog.

Conversely, barangay Buong Lupa (48.9%), barangay Mirayan (62.3%), and barangay Manguyang (70.2%) displayed a lower degree of ethnic homogeneity compared to other barangays.

Majority of the household population are Non-Indigenous Peoples

Among the 50.42 thousand household population, 48.47 (or 96.1%) identified as non-Indigenous Peoples (non-IPs). The remaining 1,946 residents belong to the following categories: Indigenous Peoples (IPs) identified by the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP): 1,883 (3.7%), Foreign ethnicities: 36 (0.07%), Individuals identified as both IPs and Muslim tribes by NCIP and National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF): 24 (0.05%), Muslim tribes identified by the NCMF: 2 (0.004%).

Indigenous Peoples comprise 3.8 percent of the household population

In 2020, IPs identified by NCIP comprised 1.91 thousand or 3.8 percent of the 50.42 thousand household population in Gloria, Oriental Mindoro. The top five IP groups in the barangay accounted for about 89.6 percent of the total IPs. Mangyan-Tau-Buid ranked first with 916 persons (48.0%), followed by Mangyan-Buhid with 341 persons (17.9%), and Mangyan Tadyawan with 295 persons (15.5%).

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 26 persons or 0.05 percent of the 50.42 thousand household population in Gloria, Oriental Mindoro. Among the Muslim tribes in the barangay, Maranao holds the largest share with 12 persons (46.2%), followed by Palawani with 6 persons (23.1%).

About one fourths of the household population with foreign ethnicity are of Swiss descent

Of the 50.42 thousand household population in Gloria, Oriental Mindoro, 36 persons or 0.07 percent were reported to have foreign ethnicity. The top five foreign ethnicities accounted for 27 persons or 75.0 percent of the total foreign ethnicity in the barangay. Swiss ranked first with 9 persons (25.0%), followed by those with Chinese ethnicity with 8 persons (22.2%).

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