2   BANK DENSITY RATIO
Philippine Banking System
as of end of periods indicated
			2005
			Mar	June	Sept	Dec		Mar	June	Sept		Dec	Dec
A.  Philippine banking offices per city/municipality
Philippines			5	5	5								5
National Capital Region (NCR)			155	155	156								156
Outside NCR			3	3	3								3
Region I	-	Ilocos	3	3	3								3
Region II	-	Cagayan	2	2	2								2
Region III	-	Central Luzon 1/	6	6	6								6
Region IV-A	-	Calabarzon 1/	8	8	8								8
Region IV-B	-	Mimaropa 1/	2	2	2								2
Region V	-	Bicol	2	2	2								2
Region VI	-	Western Visayas	3	3	3								3
Region VII	-	Central Visayas	4	4	4								4
Region VIII	-	Eastern Visayas	1	1	1								1
Region IX	-	Western Mindanao	2	2	2								2
Region X	-	Northern Mindanao	3	3	3								3
Region XI	-	Southern Mindanao	5	5	5								5
Region XII	-	Central Mindanao	3	3	3								3
Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)			1	1	1								1
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)			0	0	0								0
CARAGA			2	2	2								2
B.  No. of persons served by each banking office *
Philippines			10,979	11,017	11,027								11,054
National Capital Region (NCR)			4,205	4,222	4,234								4,250
Outside NCR			14,617	14,656	14,650								14,671
Region I	-	Ilocos	11,683	11,854	11,868								11,851
Region II	-	Cagayan	14,236	14,300	14,036								13,783
Region III	-	Central Luzon 1/	10,632	10,654	10,702								10,736
Region IV-A	-	Calabarzon 1/	8,545	8,619	8,678								8,730
Region IV-B	-	Mimaropa 1/	21,682	30,487	30,671								31,231
Region V	-	Bicol	24,057	24,040	24,249								24,230
Region VI	-	Western Visayas	17,275	15,931	15,812								15,768
Region VII	-	Central Visayas	12,090	12,071	11,980								12,057
Region VIII	-	Eastern Visayas	31,615	31,766	31,192								31,104
Region IX	-	Western Mindanao	30,445	30,342	30,241								30,142
Region X	-	Northern Mindanao	12,359	12,270	12,086								12,097
Region XI	-	Southern Mindanao	23,989	23,831	23,773								23,621
Region XII	-	Central Mindanao	17,212	17,202	17,293								17,384
Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)			13,975	14,047	14,118								14,190
Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)			89,975	90,320	90,664								91,009
CARAGA			21,680	21,412	21,527								21,453
*  Philippine population based on National Statistics Office (NSO) data
1/ Southern Tagalog Region was divided into 2 Regions while Aurora Province was integrated with Central Luzon per Executive
Order #103 dated May 17, 2002. Effective June 30, 2005, Palawan was transferred to Region VI.
Source: Supervisory Data Center, Supervision and Examination Sector