Bicol Region recorded about 1.48 million housing units in 2020 
Based on the 2020 Census of Population and Housing (2020 CPH), a total of 1,478,159 housing units were listed regionwide. Of this total, 1,342,578 housing units were occupied by households/household population as of 01 May 2020. In 2015, out of the 1.3 million housing units, 1.21 million housing units were occupied while in 2010, out of the total 1.18 million housing units, 1.1 million had occupants (Figure 1).

Between 2020 and 2015, the number of occupied housing units increased by 134,769 or 11.16 percent (Figure 2). In 1960, the reported total number of occupied housing units was 382,551, that is, 28.5 percent of the number of occupied housing units of the region in the 2020 CPH (Figure 2).

Occupancy rate was posted at 90.8 percent regionwide 
The occupancy rate or the ratio of the total occupied housing units to the total number of housing units in 2020 was posted at 90.8 percent. The occupancy rate in 2015 was higher at 92.8 percent. This means that there were more vacant housing units in 2020 than in 2015.

There were 102 households per 100 occupied housing units in the region
A total of 1,364,824 households were recorded in the region in 2020. This translates to 102 households in every 100 occupied housing units, higher than the ratio reported in 2015. On the other hand, 4.52 persons per occupied unit was recorded in 2020, slightly lower with 4.79 persons recorded in 2015 (Table 1 and Figure 3).

Majority of the occupied housing units were single houses 
Of the total number of occupied housing units in Bicol Region, 1,320,904 or 98.4 percent were single house. This was followed by occupied housing units in duplex with 22,859(1.7%), in  apartment/accessoria/rowhouse with 13,043 (0.9%), in other multi-unit residential with 6,176 (0.5%), in commercial/industrial/agricultural with 1,535 (0.1 %) and the remaining 0.02% were occupied housing units in condominiums/condotels, institutional living quarters and other types of building (Figure 4)

Majority of the occupied housing units have strong materials of the outer walls and roofs 
In 2020, 11 out of 20 (55.5%) of the occupied housing units in the region had outer walls made of concrete/brick/stone followed by outer walls of occupied housing units made of wood with 15.6 percent. On the other hand, 15.0 percent of the occupied housing units had outer walls made of bamboo/sawali/cogon/nipa while 10.8 percent had outer walls made of half concrete/brick/stone and half wood (Figure 5). Majority (68.6%) of the occupied housing units in 2020 had roofs made of galvanized iron/aluminum. This was followed by the proportion of occupied housing units with roofs made of cogon/nipa/anahaw and roofs made with concrete/clay tile with 20.8% and 6.9%, respectively (Figure 5)

Three-fourths of the housing units have concrete construction materials of the floor 
Three in every four occupied housing units (76.3%) have concrete construction materials of the floor. Other construction materials of the housing units are earth/sand/mud (15.5%), wood (4.7%), bamboo (2.7%), coconut lumber (0.3%) and others (0.08%) (Figure 6).  

Meanwhile, around 50.3 percent of the occupied housing units have cement/brick/stone as the finishing materials of the floor. Other finishing materials of the floor are ceramic/tile/marble/granite (21.5%), linoleum (6.5%), wood planks (5.0%) and vinyl/carpet tile (1.0%). Moreover 13.5% of the occupied housing units do not have any finishing materials of the floor (Figure 6).

Nine In ten occupied housing units are one-storey buildings 
Majority or about 1.22 million occupied housing units (90.7%) were only one-storey buildings. This was followed by housing units in two-storey buildings with 117 thousand (8.7%) and housing units in three-storey buildings with 6.5 thousand (0.5%). The remaining are housing units in buildings with more than three storeys (Figure 7).

Three in every four occupied housing units needed minor repair or need not be repaired at all 
Three in every four occupied housing units (77.6%) only needed minor repair or need not be repaired at all. Meanwhile, the proportion of occupied housing units needing major repair comprised of 16.0 percent (Figure 8).

Moreover, the rest of the occupied housing units were categorized as unfinished construction (2.4%), under construction (2.1%), under renovation/being repaired (1.5%) and dilapidated/condemned (0.3%) (Figure 8).

Two in five occupied housing units were built within the decade prior to the 2020 CPH 
About 40.6 percent of the occupied housing units in Region V were built 10 years prior to the 2020 CPH, that is in the period of 2011 to 2020, while 21.4 percent were built during the period 2001 to 2010. The remaining 32.6 percent were built more than 20 years prior to the 2020 CPH with 14.9 percent during the period 1991 t0 2000, 8.5 percent during the period 1981 t0 1990 and 9.2 percent in 1980 or earlier (Figure 9).

The statistics presented in this Special Release were based on the information provided by the household respondents or any responsible member who provided answers to the questions and gave information about the characteristics of the housing units. For the following data items, observation of building/housing unit by the enumerator was allowed during the data collection of the 2020 CPH: 
1. Type of Building;
2. Number of Floors of the Building;
3. Construction Materials of the Roof;
4. Construction Materials of the Outer Walls; and
5. State of Repair of the Building.