More than three in every four in the household population has Bikol as ethnicity 
More than three in every four (78.8%) of the 6,067,290 million household population in 2020 reported Bikol/Bicol as their ethnicity. Other major ethnicities were Masbateño/Masbatenon (10.5%), Bisaya/Binasaya (2.7%), Tagalog (2.5%), Cebuano (1.8%) and Agta­-Tabangnon/Tabangnon (1.5%) (Figure 1 and Table 1). 

Albay was the most homogenous province in terms of ethnicity 
Among the six provinces, Albay was the most homogenous in terms of ethnicity, as more than nine out of ten residents in the province (95.6%) reported themselves having Bikol/Bicol ethnicity. Next was Catanduanes with 94.5 percent Bikol/Bicol. Bikol/Bicol was also the top ethnicity in Sorsogon (92.7%), Camarines Sur (91.6%), and Camarines Norte (85.6%). Only in Masbate, the most common ethnicity is Masbateño/Masbatenon with 70.2 percent (Table 2).

One-third of the household population with foreign ethnicity are of Chinese descent 
Of the 6.07 million household population, 3,670 persons or 0.6 percent were reported to have foreign ethnicity. The top 10 foreign ethnicities accounted for 3,432 or 93.5 percent of the foreign ethnicity. Chinese ranked first with 1,300 persons (35.4%), followed by those with Indian ethnicity with 702 persons (19.1 %), American ethnicity with 363 persons (9.9%), and Spanish ethnicity with 292 persons (8.0%) (Table 3). 

The statistics presented in this Special Release were based on the information provided by the respondent pertaining to all members of the household.

The categories of ethnicity were provided by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos.

In the 2020 CPH., data on the ethnicity of all household members were collected by asking the respondent, "What is _________'s ethnicity by descent/blood relation/consanguinity?"