Also known as: Iloilo, Dakbanwa sang Iloilo
Iloilo City is a highly urbanized city in Iloilo, Region VI (Western Visayas). Population 474K (PSA 2024 census), 180 barangays, land area 70.3 km².
Iloilo City is a highly urbanized city in Iloilo, Region VI (Western Visayas).
Iloilo City had 473,728 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Iloilo City covers 70.3 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Iloilo City has 180 barangays.
Iloilo City is the Philippines' most consistent performer on smart-city metrics — the Iloilo River esplanade (a celebrated waterfront rehabilitation), the bike lane network, and the city's e-services platform are frequently cited as PH urbanism benchmarks. The CLUP must extend these wins to the southern barangays (Molo, Arevalo) where coastal flooding + storm surge from Iloilo Strait create hazards, and to the northern districts (Jaro, La Paz, Mandurriao) where BPO-driven gentrification is reshaping the heritage districts. Mandurriao in particular hosts SM City, Iloilo Convention Center, and the bulk of new BPO towers — the densification pace there exceeds the CLUP's original projections. The Iloilo-Capiz-Aklan railway and the Iloilo airport expansion will reshape the western corridor.
Key industries: BPO (top-5 PH outside NCR), Higher education (UP Visayas, CPU, Iloilo Doctors), Tourism + heritage, Manufacturing, Agribusiness logistics
The Iloilo Business Park — developed on the 72-hectare site of the former Mandurriao Airport — stands as one of the most successful airport-conversion projects in the Philippines, anchoring a new commercial district that includes office towers, retail centers, and a convention facility. Along the Iloilo River, Calle Real heritage street preserves a row of Spanish colonial-era commercial buildings that the city has protected through local ordinance, creating a heritage tourism corridor that coexists with the modern Iloilo Esplanade linear park. The National Economic and Development Authority has recognized Iloilo City's integrated approach to heritage preservation and modern infrastructure investment as a model for regional development planning in Western Visayas.
Iloilo's 180-barangay structure — the highest count among Western Visayas cities — demands compliance tools that scale, making the LGU directory a useful resource for comparing administrative complexity against peer cities like Bacolod in the Province of Iloilo. Planning offices managing heritage-zone overlays alongside rapid BPO-district growth can explore the pilot program to see how Nova Gov handles differentiated zoning within a single CLUP.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Iloilo's smart-city maturity makes it the best PH validation pilot for Nova Gov's full feature stack. Cohort-level reporting across 180 barangays + the existing e-services baseline mean integration friction is minimal compared to LGUs starting from paper-based workflows.
As one of the country's most consistent smart-city performers, Iloilo's next gain is differentiating Calle Real heritage parcels from the Mandurriao BPO build-out inside a single CLUP. Let's talk through how a founding pilot could layer heritage-protected zoning over your existing e-services baseline across all 180 barangays.
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