Business Permit
We guide new business, renewal, amendment, retirement, CCTV requirements, and inspection coordination through the official eLGU-BPLS path.
Start requestWe are a highly urbanized city and the regional center of Western Visayas
We are Iloilo City: ready to serve, prepared for risk, and open for opportunity.
We bring city services, trusted advisories, emergency guidance, visitor information, and investment support into one clear public front door for Ilonggos, businesses, visitors, students, workers, and partner agencies.
473,7282024 POPCEN population
180Barangays
7Districts
1stIncome class
Citizen Services
We put the most-used city transactions one tap away.
We make our services easier to find before you need to know which office handles them. From this hub, you can reach BPLS, OBO forms, transparency documents, CDRRMO hotlines, tourism information, directories, careers, and public feedback channels.
Building and Occupancy
We help you find OBO requirements, building permits, occupancy permits, electrical permits, demolition, billboard, and old-structure forms.
Open OBO flowCivil Registry
We guide birth, marriage, death, certification, correction, endorsement, and appointment requests for residents and Ilonggos abroad.
Prepare requestDisaster and Emergency
We connect you to CDRRMO hotlines, hazard reporting, evacuation information, ICARE center links, and alerts you can act on.
Open disaster hubCommunity Reporting
Tell us about local issues, receive a tracking number, view public status, and follow category, district, and response-time trends.
Open reporting platformTransparency
We publish access points for the Transparency Seal, Full Disclosure Policy, Citizen's Charter, procurement, PPP projects, budgets, and public notices.
View recordsInvest in Iloilo
We help investors with sector fit, site visit requests, BPLS routing, PPP interest, MICE, gastronomy, and local enterprise support.
Open investor pageWhy Iloilo Works
We are a livable regional capital with culture, commerce, and governance momentum.
We serve as a first-income-class highly urbanized city, the regional center of Western Visayas, and a hub for government, education, health care, logistics, finance, food, tourism, and MICE. Across our districts, we bring together heritage plazas, riverfront public space, business districts, universities, hospitals, ports, and airport access through the wider Iloilo metro corridor.
78.34 km2official land area
UNESCOCreative City of Gastronomy
ICAREresilience-center network
Our commitment
We serve Ilonggos faster, keep our city ready, and make Iloilo easier to choose for investors, visitors, and partners.
- Resident-first services and requirements.
- Clear official portal handoffs.
- Current advisories, not buried posts.
- Investment and tourism stories grounded in real strengths.
Online Services
We connect your request to the right official channel.
When you start a request here, we prepare a clean service packet, save a local reference number, and route you to the correct official destination: eLGU-BPLS for business permits, OBO forms for building transactions, CDRRMO for emergency coordination, or city contact channels for other services.
- Structured category, district, barangay, contact, and request details.
- Service-specific official portal routing with query-ready payload.
- Tracking that keeps your request details organized while we connect official systems securely.
Directory
Search our city services by need, not by office name.
We organize services around the way people ask for help: permits, tax, health, social support, hazards, tourism, employment, documents, and investment.
Current Events and Advisories
We keep citizens informed with timely, source-linked updates.
CDRRMO weather and emergency updates
We surface CDRRMO weather advisories, quick-call emergency numbers, and public safety information in a visible resident action center.
Iloilo represented urban best practices globally
We continue to share Iloilo's local governance reforms and city initiatives in national and international forums, including the World Cities Summit.
Sustainable urban development recognition
We welcomed recognition for sustainable urban development, with emphasis on resilience, environment, mobility, and people-centered governance.
Dinagyang brought culture, tourism, and commerce together
We brought culture, faith, food, tourism, and commerce together through Dinagyang activities including the opening salvo, food festival, religious events, streetdance, fluvial procession, lights parade, Kasadyahan, and festival highlights.
Visit Iloilo
We make the city easy to explore, responsibly and confidently.
We present tourism, culture, transport, events, and emergency guidance together so visitors can plan with confidence and respect local communities.
Trust and Transparency
We keep public records visible from the homepage.
We provide clear access to citizen charters, online services, full disclosure, procurement, public-private partnership information, public notices, and feedback channels so you can review government information faster.