Also known as: Tanza, Cavite, Santa Cruz de Malabon, Bayan ng Tanza
Tanza is a municipality in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 339K (PSA 2024 census), 41 barangays, land area 78.33 km².
Tanza is a municipality in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Tanza is a municipality in Cavite, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Tanza had 339,308 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.
Tanza covers 78.33 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Tanza has 41 barangays.
Tanza — known as the “Heart of the Cavite Coast” and historically named Santa Cruz de Malabon before its 1914 renaming — has grown into one of Cavite's more industrialized coastal municipalities, home to the First Cavite Industrial Estate. With 312,116 residents (2020 Census) spread across 41 barangays, it carries both a Manila Bay fishing economy and a substantial manufacturing base, a combination that has repeatedly earned it the DOF-BLGF “Seal of Good Financial Housekeeping.” That industrial growth is also Tanza's central land-use question: reconciling factory and warehouse expansion with the agricultural and fishing-community land it's built alongside, managing the traffic and infrastructure load that comes with an industrial-estate workforce, and keeping its coastal barangays' flood and storm-surge exposure part of the same planning conversation as its industrial zoning.
Key industries: Industrial/manufacturing (First Cavite Industrial Estate), Fishing, Residential development
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