Explore what is being built across Cebu
Explore approved building permits for Cebu Province, its 50 towns and the three cities: how many, how much floor area, the declared value and the kind of construction, from PSA’s records.
Building at a glance
Where are the most permits?
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Pick a year and a measure. The map shades each town and city; tap one to see its figures and its history. Places with no published figure are hatched, not shown as zero.
Places ranked
All towns and cities for the selected year and measure. The three cities are highly urbanized cities reported separately from the province. The province figure is PSA’s own series; the published town figures do not always add up to it, because some permits are recorded only at province level.
What kind of construction, year by year
Residential, non-residential, additions, alterations and repairs, and other constructions, for the selected place across every year with records.
Know which records you are viewing
PSA OpenSTAT tables 0012G4CBPC0 (2006–2021) and 0022G4GBPC1 (2022–2024), compiled from the building permits approved by city and municipal building officials and submitted to PSA. Number of permits, floor area in square metres and value in thousand pesos, by type of construction, for every city and municipality.
An approved permit means construction was authorised, not that it was built or finished. The value is the cost declared by the applicant on the permit, in the pesos of that year, so values across years also carry inflation. Submissions from local offices can arrive late, so the latest year is usually revised upward later.
Cebu Province here is PSA’s province series without the three highly urbanized cities, which are reported separately. The town figures published under the province do not always add up to the province figure; the difference is recorded at province level only. The 2006–2021 tables list demolitions and street furniture as their own types; the 2022–2024 tables list other constructions. Both are shown here as Other, so that row is not comparable across 2021 and 2022.
They show where and how much construction was authorised, and of what kind. They do not show demand, prices, completed projects or public infrastructure, which is permitted and funded differently. Extracted through the PSA OpenSTAT API on .
Licences and credit. Building-permit tables: Philippine Statistics Authority, OpenSTAT, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). Town and city boundaries: derived from the PSA PSGC via faeldon/philippines-json-maps (MIT). Changes made by KlaroFlow: the 2006–2021 and 2022–2024 tables joined into one series, demolitions, street furniture and other constructions grouped as Other, and the map classes and shares. The sources do not endorse KlaroFlow or this page.
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