Also known as: Teresa, Rizal, Bayan ng Teresa
Teresa is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 67K (PSA 2024 census), 9 barangays, land area 18.61 km².
Teresa is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Teresa is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Teresa had 67,454 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.
Teresa covers 18.61 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Teresa has 9 barangays.
Teresa is the smallest of Rizal's lakeshore-corridor municipalities by both population (64,072 in the 2020 Census) and land area (18.61 km²), sitting between the larger urbanized towns of Antipolo and Morong. Named after Doña Teresa Candelaria, it was annexed to Antipolo in 1903 before being chartered as its own municipality in 1919. Compared to its bigger, more commercially developed neighbors, Teresa remains a smaller residential and agricultural town, without the same scale of manufacturing or commercial corridor development seen in Taytay or Cainta. Its planning questions are more typical of a small Rizal municipality absorbing gradual residential spillover: keeping pace with subdivision growth pushing outward from the larger neighboring towns, and managing zoning for a town whose land area leaves little room for large-scale industrial or commercial development even if demand for it grows.
Key industries: Furniture and woodworking, Agriculture, Retail
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