Albay · Municipality · 1st district of Albay
A rice-growing municipality on the Lagonoy Gulf coast in northern Albay, hemmed between the water and Mount Malinao, and described as the rice granary of the province’s first district.
Confirmed
Confirmed
Single source
Confirmed
Single source
Single source
Population is the 2024 POPCEN, declared official 17 July 2025, against 47,395 in the 2020 census. PSA’s 29 barangay counts sum to exactly 49,570, so the municipal total agrees with its own components. The 2020 count of 47,395 is carried by PhilAtlas and Wikipedia; we could not open PSA’s own 2020 regional table, which returns HTTP 404, so that earlier figure is secondary. PSA’s record for Malinao. Badges mean what they say: Confirmed is two independent sources agreeing, Single source is one source not yet checked against a second, Not sourced is a field we leave empty rather than fill. Our sources.
The official website
Checked as part of our regional transparency audit. A municipality with no site is the normal case in Bicol, not an outlier, and that is the problem.
https://elgu-malinao-albay.e.gov.ph/
Malinao has no municipal website. Neither malinao.gov.ph nor malinaoalbay.gov.ph resolves in DNS. The only government web presence we found is an eLGU service portal on the national e.gov.ph domain, and it serves nothing but “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app” to any client that is not a full browser. That blocks search engines and anyone on a slow connection, and it carries no Transparency Seal, no Full Disclosure section and no budget page that we could reach. A Facebook page appears in search results; we could not verify it is the municipality’s official channel, so it is not linked as one.
Public money
Every city page on this site carries a per-LGU cut of the DPWH project dataset. For a municipality that cut cannot be made, and the reason is more useful than a number would be.
The DPWH dataset records two geographic fields per project, the region and the District Engineering Office. There is no municipality field. So the only way to attribute a project to a town is to search the project text, and that matches any barangay of the same name anywhere in the country.
Searching MALINAO nationwide on 18 August 2026 returns 545 projects worth ₱12.75B. Narrowing to Region V leaves 134 worth ₱6.53B. Neither figure is Malinao’s.
| District office the record sits in | Records | Could it be Malinao? |
|---|---|---|
| Albay 1st DEO | 114 | Possible |
| Region V regional office | 8 | Possible |
| Camarines Sur 2nd DEO | 4 | Not Malinao |
| Camarines Sur 5th DEO | 4 | Not Malinao |
| Sorsogon DEO | 3 | Not Malinao |
| Albay 2nd DEO | 1 | Possible |
11 of the 134 sit in Camarines Sur and Sorsogon district offices, so they are provably not in Malinao, Albay. They are barangays of the same name elsewhere in Bicol. That is a measured false positive floor of 8.2 percent on a regional text match, not an estimate.
The 114 records in Albay 1st DEO are the closest honest bracket, and that district also covers Tabaco City, Tiwi, Bacacay, Malilipot and Santo Domingo. So the true figure for Malinao is at or below 114 projects and this dataset cannot narrow it further. We would rather print that sentence than a precise number that is wrong.
Measured 18 August 2026 against the DPWH projects API, the dataset behind bisto.ph, read across all six pages of results. Status split across the Region V records: 116 completed, 9 ongoing, 9 still for procurement. Projects across Bicol.
Elected officials
Names carry the same badges as the figures above. We publish an unchecked name as unchecked, or not at all. A wrong name against a real office is the fastest way for a site like this to lose its standing.
8 elected memberspublished
Term 2025 to 2028, elected 12 May 2025. Names as DILG Region V spells them in its masterlist of elected local officials, read 18 August 2026, and corroborated seat by seat against the 2025 election returns. The DILG masterlist. The two ex-officio seats are not named in either source, so they are not listed. Malinao publishes no photographs of its officials, so this page carries none. Something out of date?
Worth knowing
Both are corrections rather than trivia, and both are the kind of thing a resident or a reporter would otherwise have to take on trust.
Services
Twelve of these are handled by the municipal hall and four are national services with offices in Bicol. With no municipal website and no reachable Citizens Charter, the requirements below are the regional baseline rather than Malinao’s own posting.