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Census tables at the PSA, quarterly filings at the DILG, an income classification at the BLGF, and a municipal website that went offline. BetterCalatagan brings them together: 156 filings, 232 archived documents and 14 quarters of finances.
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People
The latest official count is 60,420 people as of 1 July 2024, in 15,442 households (2024 POPCEN).
Changes are calculated here from PSA’s published counts. Values between census years are not interpolated.
| Census | Reference date | Population |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 POPCEN | 1 August 2015 | 56,449 |
| 2020 CPH | 1 May 2020 | 58,719 |
| 2024 POPCEN | 1 July 2024 | 60,420 |
Latest official release
Per PSA, total population is household population plus institutional population. A barangay can therefore report people but no households: Baha reports 83 persons, 0 household population and 0 households, exactly as PSA publishes them. PSA does not say which institutional quarters those persons were enumerated in, and this project does not speculate.
Retrieved from PSA's own statistical database (OpenSTAT) for the 2024 Census of Population. The 25 barangay counts reconcile exactly to PSA's municipal total for both population and households; the pipeline refuses to write the dataset otherwise. PSA's definitions of each measure are captured from the same table and published alongside the figures.
Places
From the 2024 POPCEN. The barangays sum to 60,420, matching the municipal total exactly. Search by name or code, and sort by any column.
| Share of municipality | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bagong Silang PSGC 0401008001 | 2,638 | 649 | 4.06 | |
| Baha PSGC 0401008002 | 83 | 0 See the note on Baha’s households | — | |
| Balibago PSGC 0401008003 | 3,460 | 864 | 4.00 | |
| Balitoc PSGC 0401008004 | 3,720 | 956 | 3.89 | |
| Barangay 1 (Pob.) Poblacion PSGC 0401008016 | 4,347 | 1,086 | 4.00 | |
| Barangay 2 (Pob.) Poblacion PSGC 0401008017 | 1,753 | 420 | 4.17 | |
| Barangay 3 (Pob.) Poblacion PSGC 0401008018 | 1,079 | 273 | 3.95 | |
| Barangay 4 (Pob.) Poblacion PSGC 0401008019 | 3,380 | 879 | 3.85 | |
| Biga PSGC 0401008005 | 3,575 | 901 | 3.97 | |
| Bucal PSGC 0401008006 | 1,080 | 263 | 4.11 | |
| Carlosa PSGC 0401008007 | 1,628 | 417 | 3.90 | |
| Carretunan PSGC 0401008008 | 1,760 | 414 | 4.25 | |
| Encarnacion PSGC 0401008009 | 1,295 | 316 | 4.10 | |
| Gulod PSGC 0401008010 | 3,536 | 1,038 | 3.41 | |
| Hukay PSGC 0401008011 | 2,640 | 749 | 3.52 | |
| Lucsuhin PSGC 0401008013 | 4,844 | 1,260 | 3.84 | |
| Luya PSGC 0401008014 | 570 | 140 | 4.07 | |
| Paraiso PSGC 0401008015 | 1,445 | 346 | 4.18 | |
| Quilitisan PSGC 0401008020 | 2,453 | 653 | 3.76 | |
| Real PSGC 0401008021 | 1,757 | 423 | 4.15 | |
| Sambungan PSGC 0401008022 | 2,248 | 581 | 3.87 | |
| Santa Ana PSGC 0401008023 | 3,286 | 830 | 3.96 | |
| Talibayog PSGC 0401008026 | 21 | 6 | 3.50 | |
| Talisay PSGC 0401008027 | 2,910 | 723 | 4.02 | |
| Tanagan PSGC 0401008028 | 4,912 | 1,255 | 3.91 | |
| Total | 60,420 | 100% | 15,442 | 3.91 |
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“Per household” is PSA’s household population divided by its household count, calculated here. PSA codes are not a continuous run: 012, 024 and 025 are unassigned.
* Baha is reported by PSA with 83 persons, no household population and no households . This is what PSA publishes, not a gap in our data. PSA defines total population as household population plus institutional population, so these persons were enumerated outside private households. PSA does not say which institutional quarters they were in, and this site does not guess.
Latest official release
Retrieved from PSA's own statistical database (OpenSTAT) for the 2024 Census of Population. The 25 barangay counts reconcile exactly to PSA's municipal total for both population and households; the pipeline refuses to write the dataset otherwise. PSA's definitions of each measure are captured from the same table and published alongside the figures.
History
Fifteenth-century graves that held pottery from Siam and Annam; a sugar estate; a lighthouse for ships bound for Manila; a town merged into Balayan, then restored.
Read the history 15 sources, primary documents first.
Finances
Full-year income and operating expenditure, from the municipality’s own fourth-quarter statements to DILG. Every figure on the finances page names the spreadsheet cell it came from.
Latest full year: income ₱387.8M, expenditure ₱264.2M. Reported, not audited.
The municipality
0401008000 (10-digit) · 041008000 (9-digit)
Current
The province and region are independently corroborated by BLGF MC No. 020.2024, which lists Calatagan under Region IV-A, Batangas.
PSA's own statistical database returns Calatagan under geographic key 0401008000 with its 25 barangays, confirming both the municipal code and the barangay set. Cross-checked against two independent PSA-derived mirrors, which agree.
class municipality
Effective 1 January 2025; reclassified from 2nd class under Republic Act No. 11964 — Automatic Income Classification of Local Government Units Act.
Issuance: DOF Department Order No. 074.2024 (5 November 2024), transmitted by BLGF Memorandum Circular No. 020.2024 (9 December 2024)
Current
The DTI CMCI LGU profile still shows "Second Class Municipality". CMCI is stale on this field and must not be used for income class.
Read directly from Annex A of the BLGF circular, Batangas municipalities block, page 13 of 32. The Order took effect on 1 January 2025 upon publication in the Official Gazette on 9 December 2024.
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