Also known as: Lipa, Lungsod ng Lipa
Lipa City is a component city in Batangas, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 387K (PSA 2024 census), 72 barangays, land area 209.4 km².
Lipa City is a component city in Batangas, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Lipa City is a component city in Batangas, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Lipa City had 387,392 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.
Lipa City covers 209.4 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Lipa City has 72 barangays.
Lipa sits at a critical inflection point in Batangas urbanization. It absorbs spillover growth from Metro Manila via the STAR Tollway corridor while protecting its identity as the country's coffee capital. The CLUP must reconcile three pressures: aggressive housing development on agricultural land in the southwest barangays (Tibig, Sabang, Lodlod), preservation of the Mt. Malarayat watershed and natural drainage paths in the east, and the densification of the urban core around Plaza Independencia. Disaster risk overlays add complexity — Taal Volcano ashfall hazard zones (per PHIVOLCS) cover most of the city's southern barangays, and the city sits inside the Philippine Fault Zone influence area.
Key industries: Coffee processing, Light manufacturing, Education, Tourism
Often called the "Little Rome of the Philippines," Lipa City earned its nickname from the 25 Catholic churches and chapels scattered across its 72 barangays — a concentration unmatched by any similarly sized Philippine city. The STAR Tollway expressway, which links Lipa to Metro Manila in roughly 90 minutes, has accelerated the city's transformation from an agricultural center into a mixed-use growth corridor attracting BPO firms, call centers, and IT service providers. Philippine Statistics Authority data confirms that Lipa's population growth between 2015 and 2020 outpaced the Batangas provincial average, driven largely by this emerging BPO industry and spillover housing demand from Metro Manila.
As a component city under the Province of Batangas, Lipa's CLUP must satisfy both provincial and national compliance layers — a dual-track review process planning offices have to navigate manually today. Lipa officials can compare their compliance trajectory against peer cities in the LGU directory, and planning teams ready to digitize their CLUP revision workflow can schedule a consultation with the Nova Gov team.
More on the regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer (RA 11292) · full glossary.
Lipa is one of the founding pilot targets for Nova Gov's CLUP compliance module (RA 7160 / EO 72 / DHSUD). The city's CLUP revision timeline aligns with our automated compliance gauge, sectoral-plan extraction, and disaster-risk overlay tooling. Citizens use Nova Citizen for daily LGU interactions; officials use the Nova Gov dashboard for the upstream coordination.
Lipa's CLUP revision timeline lines up with our compliance module — and the STAR-Tollway housing boom is converting coffee and coconut land in Tibig, Sabang, and Lodlod faster than the plan tracks. Join as a founding pilot and we'll stand up land-conversion alerts and sectoral-plan extraction across all 72 barangays.
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