Bulacan Province

Also known as: Lalawigan ng Bulacan

By Landon Little, Founder & CEO, Zentarai Labs · Updated 2026-06-14

Bulacan is a province in Region III (Central Luzon). Population 3.71M (PSA 2020 census), 4 cities + 21 municipalities, 569 barangays total, land area 2,796.1 km². Provincial capital: City of Malolos.

Population (2020 PSA)3,708,890
Land area2,796.1 km²
Cities + Municipalities4 + 21
Total barangays569
Income class1st
Annual budget (2024)₱6.8B

Provincial planning context

Bulacan's PDPFP is dominated by one project: the New Manila International Airport (NMIA) in Bulakan — a flagship infrastructure program tracked by DEPDev (formerly NEDA) — which will reshape regional land values and traffic patterns from Malolos to NLEX-Bocaue. The province must coordinate aggressive industrial-residential zoning around the airport corridor with the persistent flood plain issues in Calumpit, Hagonoy, and Paombong (parts of these municipalities flood for weeks each rainy season). The northern uplands (Doña Remedios Trinidad, Norzagaray) hold critical Angat-Umiray watershed protection mandates — enforced under DENR guidelines — that supply Metro Manila water. The province also coordinates the protection of fish-pen aquaculture in Manila Bay-adjacent municipalities — a politically sensitive interface with national reclamation programs. The Bulacan-Pampanga regional logistics corridor (NLEX-SCTEX-TPLEX) makes warehouse and last-mile development planning a top province-level concern.

Key industries: Manufacturing (food, garment, footwear, jewelry), Logistics + warehousing (NCR overflow), Agribusiness, Construction materials, Aquaculture (Calumpit, Hagonoy)

CLUP & SGLG status

CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / DHSUD): Province adopts its provincial land-use plan and reviews component-LGU CLUPs under RA 7160 (Secs. 20 & 468) and EO 72 (s. 1993), with DHSUD (RA 11201) as national review authority; PDPFP 2018-2027 follows DHSUD-NEDA-DILG JMC 2023-001. Intensive CLUP coordination with 25 LGUs ongoing as the New Manila International Airport alignment reshapes provincial land use, on the 12-year CLUP cycle (mandatory 6th-year midterm review, DHSUD MC 2025-018).
SGLG (for provinces), RA 11292: Assessed under the single Seal of Good Local Governance (RA 11292), DILG-administered, all-in across 10 governance areas. Note: the CY2025 assessment was deferred (DILG MC 2025-032) and criteria are being reprogrammed.

More on the regulatory framework: CLUP / RA 7160 explainer · SGLG explainer · full glossary.

How Nova Gov fits Bulacan

Bulacan's NMIA-driven multi-LGU coordination is exactly the inter-jurisdictional planning load AIOS dashboards surface. The flood-plain + watershed split (south vs north) is the textbook AIOS multi-overlay case.

Pilot the NMIA airport-corridor rollout across 25 LGUs

The New Manila International Airport is reclassifying land from Bulakan to Bocaue faster than 25 separate planning offices can keep their CLUPs aligned. A Bulacan pilot tracks airport noise-overlay and transport-buffer zoning against the PDPFP — while the south's flood-plain LGUs (Calumpit, Hagonoy, Paombong) and the northern Angat watershed run on the same multi-overlay view.

Launch a Bulacan multi-LGU pilot →
Explore Bulacan on Nova Gov: Coordinating the Central Luzon logistics corridor? Compare neighbouring Pampanga — where the Clark/BCDA jurisdictional split mirrors Bulacan's NMIA challenge — and the high-LGU-count Pangasinan case up the NLEX-TPLEX line. The platform overview shows how the airport-corridor and flood overlays sit in one dashboard.

Regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer · Glossary · LGU directory · Province directory