Albay · Region V
Capital of Albay and the regional centre of Bicol. Officials, budgets, ordinances and public services, linked back to the record that published them.
At a glance
Legazpi is the capital of Albay and the administrative centre of the Bicol Region, sitting at the foot of Mayon Volcano on Albay Gulf. Regional offices of most national agencies are here, which is why a lot of Bicol paperwork ends in Legazpi even when it starts somewhere else.
Public services
The services Legazpi City Hall actually provides, with requirements, fees and steps. Where the city publishes a citizens charter, we link the charter rather than retyping it.
Birth, death and marriage certificates, CENOMAR, and how to request a certified copy or correct an entry.
Barangay clearance, mayor’s permit, renewals, closures, and the requirements for each.
Real property tax, business tax, amilyar deadlines, discounts for early payment, and tax clearance.
Free check-ups, vaccines and medicines, maternal and child care, and which hospital handles what.
Senior citizen, PWD and solo parent IDs, AICS financial aid, burial assistance, and 4Ps.
Local scholarships and how to apply, daycare and preschool enrolment, and student assistance.
Building and occupancy permits, road and drainage repair requests, water supply, and public facilities.
Seed and fertiliser support, veterinary services, fisherfolk registration, and training programmes.
Evacuation centres and routes, typhoon and Mayon alert levels, emergency hotlines, and fire safety.
Environmental clearance, tree cutting permits, coastal and watershed protection, clean-up drives.
Collection schedules, segregation rules, special and hazardous waste, and reporting illegal dumping.
Locational clearance, zoning, subdivision approval, and local housing programmes.
PESO job fairs, DOLE programmes, TESDA training, and the requirements for working abroad.
SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG offices across Bicol, membership, claims, and loan applications.
DFA passport appointments in Legazpi and Naga, NBI clearance, police clearance, and travel documents.
LTO licence and registration, LTFRB franchises, tricycle permits, and the district offices that handle each.
Government and money
These sections are not published yet. Rather than fill them with an estimate, here is exactly what each one will contain and which record it will come from.
Mayor, vice mayor and the Sangguniang Panlungsod, with terms and committee assignments.
Source: Commission on Elections and the city’s own postings
City hall departments, what each one actually does, where it sits and how to reach it.
Source: City of Legazpi citizens charter
Approved annual budget, statement of receipts and expenditures, and the 20 percent development fund.
Source: DILG Full Disclosure Policy Portal and BLGF
What the Sangguniang Panlungsod has passed, searchable, with the full text linked.
Source: Sangguniang Panlungsod records
Bid opportunities, awards and the contractors behind them.
Source: PhilGEPS and the city bids and awards committee
All 70 barangays with their officials, hall address and contact number.
Source: PSA PSGC and barangay postings
Public money
Two streams of public money build things in every Philippine city. The national government builds roads, bridges and flood control through DPWH, and the city builds its own programs out of its own budget. The first is published as data. The second usually is not, so this section shows both and marks the difference.
DPWH, every LGU in the countrypublished
search term “LEGAZPI CITY”
sum of all contract amounts
294 still under construction
distinct names on the contracts
no contract amount yet
across the projects marked on-going
Pulled 18 August 2026 from the DPWH projects API behind bisto.ph, a BetterGov.ph and TAPAT initiative under a Memorandum of Cooperation with DPWH. The API records location as province and district engineering office only, with no city field, so this is a full-text match on the project description.
| Category | Projects | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Roads | 185 | ₱8,045.0M |
| Flood Control and Drainage | 147 | ₱7,664.9M |
| Buildings and Facilities | 244 | ₱4,068.0M |
| Bridges | 14 | ₱712.1M |
| Water Provision and Storage | 18 | ₱158.3M |
608 of 782 projects carry one of the clean category strings. The other 174 hold a fund code such as “GAA 2025 SSP” or two categories in one field. That is dirt in the source data and we count it as unclassified rather than guess.
Hi-Tone Construction & Development Corp. holds 99 of the 782 contracts in Legazpi, worth ₱5.62B. The five largest names together hold 48.0%.
Concentration is not evidence that anything improper happened, and this page does not suggest it is. Bicol has a small pool of firms with the bonding capacity for national road work, and a specialist winning repeatedly is an ordinary outcome. It is still a number worth knowing, so here it is against its peers, largest single contractor share in each of the seven Bicol cities.
Shares are of each city’s own contract value, not of the region. Names are matched as DPWH records them, so a joint venture counts as its own name and a firm appearing both alone and in a joint venture is undercounted here. The regional contractor view.
the city’s own budgetnothing published
We could not find a machine-readable list of the programs and projects Legazpi funds from its own budget, at any stage. That is the ordinary state of affairs in Bicol, not a mark against this LGU in particular. One city in the region publishes it, and the software it uses is free.
Naga City runs the People’s Budget Portal, built by WeSolve Foundation and Stride Technologies with support from BetterGov.PH. It is licensed AGPL-3.0 and its makers state it is meant as a foundation any LGU can adopt. See what it produces.
If Legazpi publishes this somewhere we missed, tell us and it goes up with attribution.
the city’s own projectsnothing published
For city-funded work there is no register anywhere in the region of what was awarded, to whom, for how much, and whether it was finished. Proposals get published. Bid invitations get published. What happened next does not.
The gap matters because it is the only stage a resident can check with their own eyes. A road either exists or it does not. Until an LGU publishes awards and completion, the national projects in Stage 1 are the only public works in Legazpi anyone outside city hall can follow from money to concrete.
Barangays
Legazpi numbers most of its barangays instead of naming them, so the directory lists both the number and the local name where one exists. Officials and contact numbers are added as each barangay is verified.
All 70 barangays are confirmed against the PSA PSGC list. Officials and hall contact details are being collected barangay by barangay.
Source: PSA PSGC, City of Legazpi, code 0500506000
Questions
210,616 as of the 2024 census by the Philippine Statistics Authority, up from 209,533 in 2020.
70 barangays. Most are numbered rather than named, which is why addresses in the city centre read like Barangay 44 Pawa instead of a place name.
Yes. Legazpi is the capital of Albay and also the regional centre of the Bicol Region, so it hosts the regional offices of most national government agencies.
0500506000. That is the Philippine Standard Geographic Code the PSA uses to identify the city in every official dataset.
No. Legazpi is a component city of Albay, so its residents still vote for provincial officials and it remains under provincial supervision.
Through the Business Permits and Licensing Office at Legazpi City Hall. The requirements and the fee schedule are set out in the city’s citizens charter, which we link to on the services page rather than paraphrasing.
Provenance
Every number on this page is traceable. Check any of them.
Officials, budgets and barangay contacts are still open. If you can source one, it goes up with your name on the contribution.