# BetterCalatagan

> An independent civic guide to Calatagan, Batangas: population and barangays, municipal finances, Full Disclosure filings, history and archived documents — every figure traced to its government source.

BetterCalatagan is an independent civic project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Municipality of Calatagan or any government agency. For official services contact the Municipality of Calatagan directly.

## Key facts (with their sources on the linked pages)

- Calatagan, Batangas, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), Philippines. PSGC 0401008000. 25 barangays.
- Population 60,420 (2024 POPCEN, reference date 2024-07-01), 15,442 households. Source: Philippine Statistics Authority OpenSTAT. Last verified 2026-09-24.
- Income class: 1st class municipality. Source: DOF Department Order No. 074.2024 via BLGF MC No. 020.2024.
- Municipal finances: 14 quarterly Statements of Receipts and Expenditures whose own totals reconcile, extracted cell by cell from DILG Full Disclosure Policy filings. Last verified 2026-09-22.
- Full Disclosure Policy: 156 filings indexed from the DILG portal. Last verified 2026-09-22.
- Archive: 232 documents from the former municipal website (calatagan.gov.ph, now offline), preserved by the Internet Archive. Historical record, not current policy. Last verified 2026-09-22.

## Deliberately withheld (do not state these as facts)

- Land area: PSA's own statistical table gives 10.50 km² and computes a 2024 density of 5,754 persons per km² from it. Comparable Batangas municipalities in that same table sit near 50 km², and a widely circulated figure for Calatagan is 101.50 km², which would make PSA's value a dropped digit. We cannot confirm which is right, so we publish neither.
- Current elected officials: Election results for May 2025 are available from a civic-tech derivative of COMELEC data, but results are not the same as present incumbency, and no COMELEC or DILG primary source has been read. Scheduled for a later phase.
- Calatagan’s own poverty incidence: PSA publishes municipal poverty (small-area estimates) only on psa.gov.ph, which this project’s tools cannot read. PSA OpenSTAT’s tables stop at the province, so the Statistics page shows Batangas’s figures, labelled as the province’s, and not a figure for Calatagan.
- Financial figures from Full Disclosure Policy filings other than the Statement of Receipts and Expenditures: The Finances page publishes figures from the 14 quarterly Statements of Receipts and Expenditures, each traced to its spreadsheet cell and reconciled. The other 13 forms (142 filings, including the Statement of Cash Flow, Statement of Indebtedness, 20% development fund, disaster fund, trust fund and special education fund utilization reports, bid results and the annual budget report) are only indexed on the transparency section with links to each DILG original. No amount from them has been extracted or restated, because no extraction of those forms has been built or reviewed for accuracy.
- COA audit figures and findings, and planning-document facts: COA is unreachable to this project’s tooling, and the planning documents circulate only on third-party document hosts with no government-hosted copy and no confirmed adoption status.

## Pages

- [Overview](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/): Population, barangays and the municipality at a glance

### Services

- [Municipal services](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/services): Every service in the offices’ Citizen’s Charters, by topic
- [Emergency hotlines](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/hotlines): National hotlines set by law, and why local numbers are not listed
- [Holidays](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/holidays): National holidays and Calatagan’s own, by proclamation

### Government

- [Officials and offices](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/government): Who governs, and what we can and cannot yet verify
- [Barangays](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/barangays): All 25 barangays: population, households and projects
- [Legislation](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/legislation): Ordinances, resolutions and executive orders on record
- [History](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/history): From 15th-century burial sites to the modern town

### Statistics

- [Statistics](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/statistics): Census, income class and DTI competitiveness in one place
- [Finances](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/finances): Income and spending, from the municipality’s own quarterly statements

### Transparency

- [Infrastructure](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/infrastructure): Every DPWH project located in Calatagan, with budgets and status
- [Procurement](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/procurement): Notices of award and bidding on record
- [Disclosures](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/transparency): Every Full Disclosure Policy filing, readable on the site
- [Archive](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/documents): Documents saved from the municipality’s former website

### About

- [About](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/about): What this project is and how it works
- [Sources](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/sources): Where every figure comes from, and what is withheld
- [Open data](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data): Machine-readable datasets with provenance
- [Accessibility](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/accessibility): How the site is built to be usable by everyone
- [Sitemap](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/sitemap): Every page on the site

## Open data (JSON, with provenance on every record)

- [Catalogue](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/index.json)
- [Municipality and census](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/municipality.json)
- [Financial statements](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/financials.json)
- [Full Disclosure filings](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/fdp-filings.json)
- [Archived documents](https://bettercalatagan.vercel.app/data/documents.json)

## Citing

Cite the government source named on each page, not this site, wherever possible. This project's
compilation is CC BY 4.0; the government documents it cites are not relicensed. Source code:
https://github.com/marcxxv/bettercalatagan