Also known as: City of San Jose del Monte, SJDM, CSJDM
San Jose del Monte City is a component city in Bulacan, Region III (Central Luzon). Population 686K (PSA 2024 census), 62 barangays, land area 105.53 km².
San Jose del Monte City is a component city in Bulacan, Region III (Central Luzon).
No. San Jose del Monte City is a component city in Bulacan, Region III (Central Luzon), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
San Jose del Monte City had 685,688 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.
San Jose del Monte City covers 105.53 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
San Jose del Monte City has 62 barangays.
San Jose del Monte (SJDM) has served as a Metro Manila informal-settler relocation site since the 1960s, when families displaced from Fort Bonifacio and later Manila slum demolitions were resettled in Sapang Palay starting in December 1963. By 2013, city officials estimated SJDM had absorbed roughly 750,000 informal settlers since 2000, about half relocated from Metro Manila danger zones, prompting the city to declare a moratorium on new land reclassification for socialized housing. That decades-long resettlement history, more than manufacturing, is the city's defining economic and planning fact — residential development, including several of the country's largest NHA and SHFC socialized-housing sites, remains SJDM's dominant sector, alongside swine and poultry production and wholesale trade hubs at Tungkong Mangga, Muzon, and Sapang Palay.
Key industries: Residential and socialized housing development, Swine and poultry production, Wholesale and retail trade, Agriculture
Growth has slowed considerably since the moratorium era: from an estimated 10% a year around 2013 to a PSA-measured 2.71% a year between 2015 and 2020, and roughly 1.2% a year between 2020 and 2024. On October 30, 2023, SJDM voters were asked whether to convert the city into a highly urbanized city, administratively independent of Bulacan province — they rejected it, 56.93% to 43.07%, keeping SJDM a component city despite being one of the most populous cities in the country. The city's population grew from 651,813 in the 2020 Census to 685,688 in the 2024 Census.
Officials managing SJDM's resettlement-driven planning history can compare notes with other Central Luzon 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.
SJDM has spent six decades absorbing planned and unplanned resettlement from Metro Manila, and now has to reconcile a 2016-era land use plan with a growth pattern that has genuinely slowed — a picture that spans housing, zoning, and social-service records built up in waves rather than all at once. 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 housing, hazard, and land-use records into one place.
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