BARANGAY PROFILE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Allang is one of the original barangays of Ligao in existence during the Cadastral Survey conducted on March 4, 1932.

The place was teeming with “gallang” plant during the early days. This plant is a root crop which is edible and very delicious. During the Spanish occupation, when the Spaniards explored the place, they named the place Gallang, which was taken from the name of the plant. As time went by, the “G” from the name was left out and the place is now known as “Allang”.

The first settles of the were five families, namely, Pelecia, Cañotal, Dolom, Segundino and Falcon. Basilio Dolom became the first “Teniente del Barrio”, followed by Falcon and Estrada.

A fiesta is celebrated every 19^th day of October in honor of their patron saint, San Pedro de Alcantara.

GEOGRAPHY/TOPOGRAPHY

Allang has a total land area of 505.12 hectares (ha) mostly of which is agricultural land. It is classified as a rural barangay and situated in the upland cluster of barangays. It is bounded on the East by Barangay Tula-Tula (Pequeño); on the West and South by the Barangay Paulba; and on the North by Barangay Culliat.

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Demography

According to the 2012 Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Survey, the total number of households is 301 with a population of 1,472 where 775 are male and 697 are female. It has an average household size of 5. The number of members according to their age group and sex is the following:

Age Year	Sex		Total
	Male	Female
0 to less than 5	84	76	160
5 to less than 10	101	91	192
10 to less than 15	78	96	174
15 to less than 20	95	64	159
20 to less than 25	84	59	143
25 to less than 30	64	44	108
30 to less than 35	53	62	115
35 to less than 40	39	35	74
40 to less than 45	38	35	73
45 to less than 50	36	31	67
50 to less than 55	30	30	60
55 to less than 60	23	18	41
60 to less than 65	26	14	40
65 to less than 70	9	16	25
70 to less than 75	6	5	11
75 to less than 80	5	10	15
80 to less than 85	3	5	8
85 to less than 90	1	5	6
110 to less than 115	0	1	1
Total	775	697	1472

During the survey, the number of members who are 17 years old and above is 887, yet the number of the registered voters is only 722, garnering 81.40% of the actual voters in the barangay.

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Health and Nutrition

There are 22 children who are classified as malnourished in the barangay, 11 of whom are male and 11 are female. The following table shows the nutritional status of children:

 

Nutritional Status		Number of children 0-5 years old			Nutrition status of children 0-5 years old
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
		196	99	97
	Above Normal				63	33	30
	Normal				102	49	53
	Below Normal (moderate)				18	9	9
	Below Normal (severe)				4	2	2

 

There is no incidence where a child under 5 years old died, as well as pregnancy related-causes death.

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Housing

A total of 13 (4.3%) of households in the barangay live in makeshift housing or an improvised housing built of waste materials which are usually from burned or condemned structures, that is being used as living quarters at the time of the census. 59 (19.6%) households are informal settlers or where the housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. Most informal settlements are found in Purok 2. The table below shows the tenure status in the barangay:

Tenure Status		Magnitude	Proportion
	Owner, owner-like possession of house and lot	91	31.23
	Rent house/room including lot	1	0.33
	Own house, rent lot	0	0.00
	Own house, rent-free lot with consent of owner	136	45.18
	Own house, rent-free lot without consent of owner	2	0.66
	Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner	11	3.65
	Living in a public space with rent	0	0.00
	Living in a public space without rent	57	18.94
	Other tenure status	0	0.00

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Water and Sanitation

55 or 18.3% of households have no access to sanitary toilet facilities. Purok 5 have the most number of households with no access while Purok 2 and 4 has the least household that have no sanitary toilet facilities. The table below shows the toilet facility in the barangay:

Type of Toilet Facility		Magnitude	Proportion
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-own	219	72.76
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-shared	25	8.31
	Closed pit	2	0.66
	Open pit	49	16.28
	No toilet	6	1.99

Meanwhile, all households from the barangay have access to safe water. The source of the drinking water can be shown below:

Source of Drinking Water		Magnitude	Proportion
	Own faucet water inside the household	1	0.33
	Own faucet water inside the yard	8	2.66
	Public tap/stand pipe	2	0.66
	Tube well or borehole	10	3.32
	Protected dug well	0	0.00
	Protected spring water	278	92.36
	Bottled/mineral water	2	0.66

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 Basic Education

In elementary participation, 44 children (19 male and 25 female) who are aged 6-12 years old are not in elementary education. One every 5 children in this age range is not attending elementary school.

In high school participation, a total of 57 children who are aged 13-16 are not in high school. There are more males (32) than females (25) who are not attending high school. Purok 1 have the most members not in high school with 13.

Here is the overall school participation in the barangay:

Purok		Number of children 6-15 years old			Children 6-15 years old not attending school
					Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
		357	182	175	27	16	11	7.56	8.79	6.29
	Purok 01	69	32	37	10	6	4	14.49	18.75	10.81
	Purok 02	93	56	37	5	3	2	5.38	5.36	5.41
	Purok 03	42	20	22	5	4	1	11.90	20.00	4.55
	Purok 04	58	30	28	5	1	4	8.62	3.33	14.29
	Purok 05	73	31	42	1	1	0	1.37	3.23	0.00
	Purok 06	22	13	9	1	1	0	4.55	7.69	0.00

Of the total 1,120 who are aged 10 and above, 118 are illiterate with 65 male and 53 female as shown below:

Purok		Number of persons 10 years old and above			Illiterate persons 10 years old and above
					Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
		1120	592	530	118	65	53	10.54	11.02	10.00
	Purok 01	177	90	87	35	19	16	19.77	21.11	18.39
	Purok 02	332	179	153	12	6	6	3.61	3.35	3.92
	Purok 03	131	60	71	17	10	7	12.98	16.67	9.86
	Purok 04	177	99	78	30	15	15	16.95	15.15	19.23
	Purok 05	247	133	114	20	12	8	8.10	9.02	7.02
	Purok 06	56	29	27	4	3	1	7.14	10.34	3.70

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Income and Livelihood

There are 556 members (410 male and 146 female) who are members of the labor force, there are 13 households have reported having members who are unemployed. There are only 9 male and 5 female who are considered unemployed.

Of the 301 households, there are no households that have experienced food shortage. 99 households lie below the poverty threshold, roughly 32.9% of the household in the barangay. Poverty threshold or poverty line is the minimum income deemed adequate in a household. The currently used poverty threshold is: 19,069 (Rural) and 20,315 (Urban). Purok 2 has the most number of households living below the poverty threshold with 21.

44 households or 14.6% live below the food threshold; it refers to the basic food requirements which meet 100% adequacy of the RDA for energy (2000 calories) and 80% adequacy of other nutrients as recommended by the FNRI.  The currently used food threshold is: 13,319 (Rural) and 14,189 (Urban). Most of this household can be found in Purok 2 (12 household).

Here is the type of business/industry and class of worker in the barangay:

Type of business/industry
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing	165	154	11	30.44	38.40	7.80
	Mining and Quarrying	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Manufacturing	7	5	2	1.29	1.25	1.42
	Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply	5	1	4	0.92	0.25	2.84
	Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities	1	1	0	0.18	0.25	0.00
	Construction	73	72	1	13.47	17.96	0.71
	Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles	35	25	11	6.64	6.23	7.80
	Transportation and Storage	44	44	0	8.12	10.97	0.00
	Accommodation and Food Service Activities	19	13	6	3.51	3.24	4.26
	Information and Communication	4	2	2	0.74	0.50	1.42
	Financial and Insurance Activities	2	0	2	0.37	0.00	1.42
	Real Estate Activities	1	0	1	0.18	0.00	0.71
	Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities	5	3	2	0.92	0.75	1.42
	Administrative and Support Service Activities	20	14	6	3.69	3.49	4.26
	Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security	14	9	5	2.58	2.24	3.55
	Education	8	0	8	1.48	0.00	5.67
	Human Health & Social Work Activities	4	1	3	0.74	0.25	2.13
	Arts, Entertainment and Recreation	1	1	0	0.18	0.25	0.00
	Other Service Activities	61	32	29	11.25	7.98	20.57
	Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods-and-Services	87	29	58	16.05	7.23	41.13

 

Class of worker
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Worked for a household	71	32	39	13.10	7.98	27.66
	Worked for a private establishment	163	122	41	30.07	30.42	29.08
	Worked for government/ government corporation	94	69	25	17.34	17.21	17.73
	Self employed without employees	56	45	11	10.33	11.22	7.80
	Employer in own family-operated farm or business	7	5	2	1.29	1.25	1.42
	Worked with pay on own family operated farm or business	18	14	4	3.32	3.49	2.84
	Worked without pay on own family operated farm or business	138	117	21	25.46	29.18	14.89
	Working for government of another country	12	4	8	2.21	1.00	5.67

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Peace and Order

Crime is an act or offense from a public law which makes the offender liable to punishment by the state. It can be categorized as crimes against person and against property. There are no household victimized by any crime.

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Service Institutions and Infrastructure

The barangay has 1 health facility which is the Barangay Health Center. The nearest hospital and drugstore could be found 14 and 13 kilometers from the Barangay Hall respectively. Allang Covered Court and Barangay Outpost are the 2 service facilities in the barangay. Educational facilities can also be found such as Day Care Center and Elementary School. The nearest high school can be located 4 kilometers away from the barangay proper.

The types of public transportation present in the barangay are Jeepney and Tricycle. The road is concrete and in good condition, it is maintained by the barangay.

Compost pits is the most common garbage or waste disposal system in the community. Open dump site and sanitary landfill is 3 kilometers and 15 kilometers away from the barangay, repectively.

The source of electricity in the barangay is provided and maintained by Albay Power and Energy Corporation (APEC).

Source: CBMS 2012