Also known as: Las Piñas, Lungsod ng Las Piñas
Las Piñas City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila (NCR), National Capital Region (NCR). Population 616K (PSA 2024 census), 20 barangays, land area 32.69 km².
Las Piñas City is in the National Capital Region (NCR), also called Metro Manila.
Yes. Las Piñas City is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, officially the National Capital Region (NCR).
Las Piñas City is in the Fourth District of the National Capital Region, also known as the Southern Manila District, together with Makati, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Pasay, Pateros and Taguig. The Philippine Statistics Authority groups Metro Manila's cities and its one municipality into four such districts. They are a statistical and administrative grouping, not congressional districts.
Las Piñas City had 615,549 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.
Las Piñas City covers 32.69 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Las Piñas City has 20 barangays.
Las Piñas is a coastal city on the southern edge of Metro Manila, best known outside the region for the Bamboo Organ at St. Joseph Parish — a 19th-century pipe organ built largely from local bamboo that remains a functioning instrument and a National Cultural Treasure. The city's land use is dominated by large, already-built residential subdivisions (BF Homes and BF International Village among them) rather than dense vertical development, which shapes a different planning profile than its northern NCR neighbors. Its western barangays front Manila Bay directly, which means flood risk here is a compound problem: habagat rainfall, high tide on the Bay, and overflow from the Zapote and Las Piñas rivers can all hit at once. A July 2025 event combining heavy rain with a 1.2-meter Manila Bay high tide flooded 18 of the city's 20 barangays and displaced roughly 2,000 families, prompting a state of calamity; local reporting has also linked channel-narrowing from the Zapote River Drive project to worsening flood behavior in the area.
Key industries: Retail + commercial, Residential subdivisions, Tourism (heritage sites), Education
Las Piñas' population grew from 606,293 in the 2020 Census to 615,549 in the 2024 Census, one of the slower growth rates among NCR's highly urbanized cities — plausible for a city with limited undeveloped land left to build on. The city's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office coordinates flood response with dedicated response teams and evacuation centers across the most exposed riverside and coastal barangays.
Officials managing Las Piñas' coastal flood exposure can compare notes with other Manila Bay-facing cities in the LGU directory, including Manila, which faces a similar tide-plus-rainfall flood pattern along its own bayfront barangays. 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.
Las Piñas coordinates flood response across 20 barangays whenever Manila Bay tide, habagat rain, and river overflow line up at once — a compound-hazard pattern that needs zoning, drainage, and disaster-response data to stay in sync rather than living in separate departments. 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.
When a Manila Bay high tide meets river overflow, Las Piñas has had to coordinate response across 18 of its 20 barangays at once. See how a founding pilot could line up hazard overlays with zoning and permitting records ahead of the next event.
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