Also known as: City of Imus, Lungsod ng Imus
Imus City is a component city in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 482K (PSA 2024 census), 97 barangays, land area 53.15 km².
Imus City is a component city in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Imus City is a component city in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Imus City had 481,949 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.
Imus City covers 53.15 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Imus City has 97 barangays.
Imus holds an unusual dual status in Cavite: Presidential Decree No. 1163 named it the province's legal seat of government back in 1977, yet most provincial offices still operate from Trece Martires City in practice. Either way, Imus remains fully governed as part of Cavite province — a component city, not administratively independent — built on a growing base of industrial estates, BPO employers, and Metro Manila commuter housing, alongside its historical significance as a site of the Philippine Revolution.
Key industries: Industrial estates (Imus Informal Industrial Estate, Anabu Hills), BPO and IT services, Residential and commuter real estate, Heritage tourism
The Imus River has long been a chronic flood corridor for northern Cavite, most recently flooding the city and its neighbors during habagat rains in August 2026. In response, DPWH built the Imus Retarding Basin in Barangay Anabu 1-G with Japanese ODA support — the Philippines' first facility of its kind, spanning 35 hectares, inaugurated in 2021 — and completed a related ₱2.4 billion two-basin flood-control project turned over in September 2026, attended by the DPWH and DILG secretaries. Imus recorded 496,794 residents in the 2020 Census and 481,949 in the 2024 Census.
Officials managing Imus' river-corridor flood infrastructure can compare notes with other Cavite cities in the LGU directory. Planning teams evaluating digital compliance tools can explore the pilot program or schedule a consultation.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Imus has to track a multi-hundred-million-peso river flood-control build-out against zoning and permitting records for the corridor it protects, while also managing the practical reality of being a legal capital whose government offices mostly sit somewhere else. Nova Gov's platform is built for exactly this kind of cross-department coordination, and the pilot program is designed to help planning offices bring hazard overlays and land-use records into one place.
A ₱2.4 billion two-basin flood-control project just wrapped on the Imus River. See how a founding pilot could line up that infrastructure with zoning and permitting records ahead of the next habagat season.
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