In 2020, out of the 97.60 million household population aged five years and over, 29.87 million (30.6%) were “lifetime migrants”. These are the persons whose current city/municipality of residence is different from the usual place of residence (city/municipality) of their mother at the time of their birth. In the 2020 CPH, the usual residence of the mother at the time of birth of the household member was used as proxy indicator/variable for the person’s place of birth. (Table 1 and Figure 1)

The number of households in the country based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing (CPH) reached 20.2 million. This is an increase of 32.0 percent compared to the 15.3 million households in 2000.

In 2010, nearly 17.0 million households or 83.4 percent of the total households in the country used electricity as fuel for lighting. The proportion of households using kerosene for lighting was recorded at 15.0 percent. The rest of the households used LPG and oil for lighting.

The 2010 Census of Population and Housing (2010 CPH), counted a total of 19,715,695 occupied housing units in the Philippines as of May 1, 2010. These are housing units with households and persons living in them at the time of census enumeration.

Between 2000 and 2010, the number of occupied housing units increased by 4,900,791 or 33.1 percent.