BARANGAY PROFILE

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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

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

The original settlers of the barangay were the “Aetas” or “Agtas” in the local dialect. The head of these “Agtas” was a certain person called “Herrera”. The place was known then as “Herrera” or “the land of Herrera”.

The first houses built in the locality belong to the families of Patasin and Peralta. The first Teniente del Barrio was Nicomedes Pinpin.

A fiesta is celebrated every 30^th day of August in honor of their patron saint, San Ramon Nonato.

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GEOGRAPHY/TOPOGRAPHY

Herrera has a total land area of 416.40 hectares (ha). 41.46 ha is residential land, 91.79 ha is agricultural land, 249.84 ha is mountainous land, 12.49 ha is idle land and 20.82 ha are aquatic resources. It is part of the Mayon Unit Cluster of barangays. Its terrain is generally flat to rolling. It is bounded on the East by Barangay Nasisi; on the West by Barangay Barayong; on the North by Barangays Basag; and on the South by Barangay Batang.

It has a tropical climate. Heavy rainfall occurs during the months of June to November and the dry season is from the month of January to May.

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Demography

According to the 2012 Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) Survey, the total number of households is 493 with a population of 2,559 where 1,280 are male and 1,278 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	172	146	318
5 to less than 10	163	157	320
10 to less than 15	152	159	311
15 to less than 20	138	157	295
20 to less than 25	125	118	243
25 to less than 30	88	89	177
30 to less than 35	65	66	131
35 to less than 40	67	69	136
40 to less than 45	66	49	115
45 to less than 50	42	49	91
50 to less than 55	54	67	121
55 to less than 60	53	41	94
60 to less than 65	33	33	66
65 to less than 70	26	28	54
70 to less than 75	14	26	40
75 to less than 80	12	15	27
80 to less than 85	6	5	11
85 to less than 90	4	1	5
90 to less than 95	0	3	3
Total	1280	1278	2558

During the survey, the number of members who are 17 years old and above is 1,479, yet the number of the registered voters is 1,191, garnering 80.53% of the actual voters in the barangay.

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Health and Nutrition

There are 23 children who are classified as malnourished in the barangay, 10 of whom are male and 13 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
		373	199	174
	Above Normal				0	0	0
	Normal				336	182	154
	Below Normal (moderate)				22	10	12
	Below Normal (severe)				1	0	1

There are 2 incidences that children under 5 years old died and no incidence where a woman died due to pregnancy related-causes death.

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Housing

There are 4 households in the barangay that lives in makeshift housing or an improvised housing built of waste materials which are usually from burned or condemned structures, which are being used as living quarters at the time of the census. Most of these households can be found in Purok 6 (2 households). There are 5 households who is informal settlers or where the housing units have been constructed on land that the occupants have no legal claim to, or occupy illegally. Purok 7 has the most households who are informal settlers with 3. The table below shows the tenure status in the barangay:

Tenure Status		Magnitude	Proportion
	Owner, owner-like possession of house and lot	422	85.60
	Rent house/room including lot	2	0.41
	Own house, rent lot	1	0.20
	Own house, rent-free lot with consent of owner	25	5.07
	Own house, rent-free lot without consent of owner	2	0.41
	Rent-free house and lot with consent of owner	18	3.65
	Rent-free house and lot without consent of owner	1	0.20
	Living in a public space with rent	0	0.00
	Living in a public space without rent	2	0.41
	Other tenure status	20	4.06

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Water and Sanitation

78 or 15.8% of households have no access to sanitary toilet facilities. Purok 4 has the most number of households with no access with 26. The table below shows the toilet facility in the barangay:

Type of Toilet Facility		Magnitude	Proportion
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-own	301	61.05
	Water-sealed flush to sewerage/septic tank-shared	15	3.04
	Closed pit	99	20.08
	Open pit	4	0.81
	No toilet	74	15.01
	Others	0	0.00

Meanwhile, there are no households from the barangay that have no 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	302	61.26
	Own faucet water inside the yard	11	2.23
	Public tap/stand pipe	155	31.44
	Tube well or borehole	6	1.22
	Protected dug well	19	3.85
	Unprotected dug well	0	0.00
	Bottled/Mineral water	0	0.00

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Basic Education

In elementary participation, 54 children (26 male and 28 female) who are aged 6-12 years old are not in elementary education. One every 8 children in this age range is not attending elementary school.

In high school participation, a total of 83 children who are aged 13-16 are not in high school. There are more males (49) than females (34) who are not attending high school. Purok 7 has the most members not in high school with 20.

Here is the overall school participation in the barangay:

Purok		Number of children 6-16 years old			Children 6-16 years old not attending school
					Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
		706	348	358	45	25	21	6.52	7.18	5.87
	Purok 01	72	36	36	6	2	4	8.33	5.56	11.11
	Purok 02	132	60	72	6	2	4	4.55	3.33	5.56
	Purok 03	72	35	37	4	2	2	5.56	5.71	5.41
	Purok 04	155	66	89	5	4	1	3.23	6.06	1.12
	Purok 05	57	25	32	2	2	0	3.51	8.00	0.00
	Purok 06	95	56	39	11	7	4	11.58	12.50	10.26
	Purok 07	123	70	53	12	6	6	9.76	8.57	11.32

Of the total 1,920 who are aged 10 and above, 28 are illiterate with 12 male and 16 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
		1920	945	975	28	12	16	1.46	1.27	1.64
	Purok 01	209	107	102	1	1	0	0.48	0.93	0.00
	Purok 02	317	145	172	4	3	1	1.26	2.07	0.58
	Purok 03	189	91	98	1	1	0	0.53	1.10	0.00
	Purok 04	396	184	212	5	2	3	1.26	1.09	1.42
	Purok 05	190	99	91	1	0	1	0.53	0.00	1.10
	Purok 06	315	158	157	12	4	8	3.81	2.53	5.10
	Purok 07	304	161	143	4	1	3	1.32	0.62	2.10

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Income and Livelihood

There are 853 members (786 male and 570 female) who are members of the labor force, there are 54 households have reported having members who are unemployed. There are 36 male and 31 female who are considered unemployed.

Of the 493 households, there are no households that have experienced food shortage. 259 households lie below the poverty threshold, roughly 52.5% 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 52.

192 households or 38.9% 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 6 and 7 (40 households each).

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	312	293	19	39.69	51.40	8.80
	Mining and Quarrying	6	6	0	0.76	1.05	0.00
	Manufacturing	21	16	5	2.67	2.81	2.31
	Electricity, Gas, Steam and Air Conditioning Supply	5	3	2	0.64	0.53	0.93
	Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management and Remediation Activities	1	1	0	0.13	0.18	0.00
	Construction	86	84	2	10.94	14.74	0.93
	Wholesale and Retail Trade; Repair of Motor Vehicles and Motorcycles	134	59	75	17.05	10.35	34.72
	Transportation and Storage	53	52	1	6.74	9.12	0.46
	Accommodation and Food Service Activities	19	11	8	2.42	1.93	3.70
	Information and Communication	3	1	2	0.38	0.18	0.93
	Financial and Insurance Activities	4	2	2	0.51	0.35	0.93
	Real Estate Activities	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00
	Professional, Scientific and Technical Activities	5	2	3	0.64	0.35	1.39
	Administrative and Support Service Activities	5	2	3	0.64	0.35	1.39
	Public Administration and Defense; Compulsory Social Security	18	12	6	2.29	2.11	2.78
	Education	23	4	19	2.93	0.70	8.80
	Human Health & Social Work Activities	11	0	11	1.40	0.00	5.09
	Arts, Entertainment and Recreation	7	4	3	0.89	0.70	1.39
	Other Service Activities	59	31	28	7.51	5.44	12.96
	Activities of Households as Employers; Undifferentiated Goods-and-Services	57	6	51	7.25	1.05	23.61
	Activities of Extra-Territorial Organizations and Bodies	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00

Class of worker
		Magnitude			Proportion
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
	Worked for a household	134	71	63	17.05	12.46	29.17
	Worked for a private establishment	257	188	69	32.70	32.98	31.94
	Worked for government/ government corporation	57	21	36	7.25	3.68	16.67
	Self employed without employees	222	165	57	28.24	28.95	26.39
	Employer in own family-operated farm or business	29	24	5	3.69	4.21	2.31
	Worked with pay on own family operated farm or business	64	59	5	8.14	10.35	2.31
	Worked without pay on own family operated farm or business	66	61	5	8.40	10.70	2.31
	Working for government of another country	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00

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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 5 persons victimized by a crime in the barangay. The crimes committed were Theft (4 incidences) and Murder/Homicide (1 incidence).

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Service Institutions and Infrastructure

The barangay has 1 health facility which is the Barangay Health Center. The nearest Hospitals and Private Drugstores are 7 kilometers from the barangay. Herrera Covered Court is the service facility in the barangay. Educational facilities can also be found with two Day Care Center, Pre-School and Elementary School. The nearest High School and College or Vocational School is 7 kilometers away from the barangay proper.

The public transportation present in the barangay is Tricycle. The road is concrete and in good condition, it is maintained by the City Government.

Garbage collection is the most common garbage or waste disposal system in the community. Open dump site and sanitary landfill is 8 kilometers away from the barangay.

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

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Source: CBMS 2012