Total Population

Some demographic characteristics of the city based on the 2010 National Census are:

• Total household population – 95,874 or 10.14% of the province population.
• Annual population growth rate (PGR) – 2.21% which is lower than the province PGR of 2.43%.
• Urban population – 25,200 or 26.28%.
• Rural population – 70,674 or 73.72%.
• Population is predominantly labor force; more than half of population is aged 15 and over.
• There are 107 males for every 100 females.
• Male and female labor forces are almost equal.
• Dependency rate – 62 dependents for every 100 working age population.
• Average household size – 4.2 persons.
• Literacy rate of 97.81% is higher than that of DAVAO DEL NORTE which is 97.1%.

Population Density

• City population density is 3 persons per hectare.
• 5 barangays with a total land area of 3104 hectares or 31.04 sq. km. are classified as urban with an average urban density of 8 persons per hectare.
• Barangays Miranda and Moncado have bigger density due to bigger population in a smaller land area.
• The rest of the Barangays are classified as rural with a total gross area of 27,026 hectares and an average rural density of 3 persons per hectare.

Ethnicity

• 39,007 or 40.71% of total population are Cebuanos.
• Bisaya/Binisaya which comprises of 19.60% of the total population followed and Sama/Samal tribe with 18.41% of the total population respectively.
• There are more than 100 types of Pilippines ethnic groups such as Boholano, Davaoweno, Tausug, Ilonggo, Waray and foreign nationals also reside in the city.
• The city population is an assortment of various cultures and ethnic groupings.

Religion

• 72% of the population are Roman Catholics.
• The rest of the population are members of 85 other denominations of either evangelicals and non-Christian or tribal religions and those without any reported religious affiliation.

Language/Dialects

• Most of the “Generals” being families of settlers speak various dialects of their ethnic tribes in the following order: Cebuano, Bisaya/Binisaya, Sama/Samal, Boholano, Davaoweno, Tausug, and Ilonggo/Hiligaynon.

Poverty Incidence

• The 2015 Municipal and City Level Small Area Poverty Estimates of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the poverty incidence in Davao del Norte is only 26.1%.