Manila, Philippines
What Manila is made of: the communities whose institutions are here, the sectors its 10,187 businesses sit in, the franchises already on the ground, and the services a newcomer could start.
Business register for this city: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — named shops, offices, trades and services, which undercounts businesses that are not mapped.
10,187 businesses on file · 123 trades · 26 sectors · registry population 1,902,590 · built from geonet.manila on 2026-10-27
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The local economy
What the business base is made of, what it is specialised in against the national pattern, and what that mix implies. This is the part a development office would read first.
Composition, not health. geonet records what trades exist and where; it does not record formation, closure, employment or revenue, so none of those appear here. What makes this economics rather than a directory is the NAICS coding: it lets the local mix be read against the BLS survival curves and against the 323 industry groups this research has screened.
Every industry group on this page links through to its NAICS page, and to the screened market report where this research has one — that is what the trait-to-NAICS coding buys.
What this city is specialised in
Location quotient is this city's share of a trade divided by the same share across 26 metro tables worldwide. Above 1.25 is the conventional threshold for a local specialisation.
Thin against the national pattern
Common trades that are under-represented here. For someone deciding what to open, this is the more useful half of the table — though a gap can mean unmet demand or a market that does not work here, and this does not tell you which.
The base against the entry screen
Businesses by the entry signal of the industry group they sit in, from the /markets screen. A large "structure decides" share means most local trades are ones where being better than the incumbent does not by itself win. A trade is matched to the screened record at whatever level the research wrote it — the same code, a broader one, or a narrower one. Where a group holds several screened sub-markets the count is shown, because no single one of them speaks for the whole group.
How to read the survival figure
Each sector's five-year establishment survival rate, weighted by how many of this city's businesses sit in that sector. It is a property of the MIX, not of these businesses — it says what survival this composition would imply at US private-sector rates, because no Canadian equivalent series exists.
Weighted over 100% of the coded base — public administration carries no curve. Source: Business Employment Dynamics — Table 7, Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And what it does not measure
A "mixed" trait is one that genuinely spans codes — "computers" covers systems design, repair and supply. The clear share is how much of this reading rests on unambiguous coding. Business density also reflects how completely the directory covers a place, not only how many businesses are in it — so it compares poorly between a city the register knows well and one it does not.
Who lives here, and who the city is for
The census: the only figures on this page that count people rather than businesses, and the three cohort readings they make possible.
No census subdivision is mapped for ph-manila in local/census-map.json, so this page carries no census figures. The mapping is kept explicit because Canada has several places called London, Toronto and Kelowna, and attaching the wrong one would put another city's demographics on this page.
The communities the register shows
A community appears in the business register before it appears in prose — a national church, a society, a credit union, a newspaper. Those are counted as institutions, and they are what suggests residents. A restaurant serving a cuisine is counted separately as trade, because every city has those and they say nothing about who lives nearby. The ranking is by institutions.
| Community | Institutions | Worship | Trade | Where it shows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filipino | 28 | — | 114 | trade on Shaw Boulevard (4) · Taft Avenue (3) · Ortigas Avenue (2) · Paseo de Roxas (2)
Tzu Chi Foundation Philippines · Philippine Cerebral Palsy Incorporated · Philippine Pharmacists Association |
| Chinese | 1 | — | 14 | trade on Wilson Street (2)
Filipino Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Mandaluyong |
| Japanese | 1 | — | 13 |
Japanese Association Manila |
| Swiss | 1 | — | 4 |
Swiss Foundation for Mine Action |
| Islamic | 1 | — | — |
Advocacy for the Development of Muslim OCWs |
| Korean | — | — | 27 | |
| Thai | — | — | 25 | |
| French | — | — | 10 | |
| Italian | — | — | 4 | |
| Dutch | — | — | 3 | |
| Persian | — | — | 3 | |
| Russian | — | — | 2 | |
| Arabic-speaking | — | — | 2 | |
| Caribbean | — | — | 2 | |
| Indonesian | — | — | 1 | |
| Spanish-speaking | — | — | 1 | |
| Polish | — | — | 1 | |
| Czech | — | — | 1 | |
| Bulgarian | — | — | 1 | |
| German | — | — | 1 | |
| Jewish | — | — | 1 |
Where the communities are
Streets, not neighbourhood names. The data knows that Greek institutions sit on one street and Greek restaurants on another; it does not know the word "Greektown", so it does not use it.
Filipino
Chinese
What the city is made of
Every business on file, grouped by the sector it trades in. This is the economic-development view: where the 10,187 businesses actually are, and the specific trades inside each sector.
| Sector | Businesses | Share | What is in it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 2,572 | 25.2% | convenience (676) · pharmacy (279) · bakery (215) · supermarket (110) · electronics (88) · books (45) · jewelry (25) · department store (21) |
| Dining | 2,100 | 20.6% | restaurant (2084) · deli (12) · food (4) |
| Business | 893 | 8.8% | association (71) · staffing (41) · foundation (15) · religion (10) · logistics (9) · research (2) · consulting (2) |
| Finance | 809 | 7.9% | |
| Travel | 554 | 5.4% | hotel (242) · laundry (153) · bed and breakfast (30) · museum (28) · motel (12) · car rental (5) |
| Beverage | 548 | 5.4% | coffee (473) · water (39) · beverages (25) · wine (6) · alcohol (5) |
| Health | 448 | 4.4% | optician (61) · massage (44) · doctor (39) · hospital (39) · speech therapist (3) · nursing home (1) · dentures (1) |
| Beauty | 288 | 2.8% | barber (132) · beauty salon (116) · cosmetics (28) · pet grooming (7) · tattoo (3) · spa (2) |
| Automotive | 266 | 2.6% | car repair (114) · motorcycle (65) · auto parts (36) · car wash (25) · tires (24) · truck (2) |
| Entertainment | 263 | 2.6% | bar (190) · gambling (21) · cinema (20) · nightclub (13) · lottery (11) · music (4) · party (2) · video game (1) |
| Fashion | 179 | 1.8% | clothing (150) · shoes (29) |
| Education | 156 | 1.5% | college (73) · university (44) · library (18) · driving school (11) · training (9) · school (1) |
| Energy | 152 | 1.5% | fuel (152) |
| Living | 131 | 1.3% | furniture (25) · florist (19) · childcare (10) · appliance (10) · outdoor (10) · theatre (9) · photography (4) · houseware (3) |
| Sports | 95 | 0.9% | bicycle (71) · sporting goods (23) · fishing (1) |
| Realty | 77 | 0.8% | apartment (50) · studio (15) · real estate (11) · property management (1) |
| Construction | 63 | 0.6% | electrical (6) · HVAC (6) · tile (2) · plumbing (1) · pest control (1) · paint (1) |
| Food | 47 | 0.5% | ice cream (26) · candy (13) · health food (5) · seafood (3) |
| Media | 42 | 0.4% | printing (42) |
| Logistics | 40 | 0.4% | courier (33) · wholesale (5) · packaging (1) · transport (1) |
The franchises already here
Brands from a register of 2,024 franchise systems, matched into this city by name. A high count is a signal in both directions: the territory works, and it may be taken.
36 of these brands are a single common word — Metro, Avenue, Budget — so their counts include businesses that merely share the word. They are marked rather than dropped.
| Brand | Category | Here | Worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7-Eleven | convenience | 253 | 30,000 |
| McDonald's | hamburger | 61 | 31,800 |
| Burger King | fastfood | 14 | 11,000 |
| Pizza Hut | pizza | 14 | 10,000 |
| Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf | coffee | 13 | 609 |
| Wendy's | hamburger | 13 | 6,700 |
| ACE Hardware | hardware | 7 | 4,700 |
| Bank of Asia | bank | 7 | — |
| Dunkin' Donuts | donuts | 7 | 6,000 |
| Krispy Kreme | coffee | 7 | 298 |
| Tim Hortons | coffee | 6 | 2,890 |
| Super 8 | economyhotel | 4 | — |
| The Body Shop | retail | 4 | — |
| Dairy Queen | fastfood | 3 | 5,900 |
| Denny's | food | 3 | 1,578 |
| Payless Shoesource | shoestore | 3 | 5,000 |
| Bruno's | supermarket | 2 | — |
| Marks & Spencer | retail | 2 | 742 |
| Toys "R" Us | retail | 2 | 1,400 |
| Traveller's Inn | budgethotel | 2 | 11 |
| Banana Republic | retail | 1 | — |
| Calvin Klein | mensunderwear | 1 | — |
| Cole Haan | retail | 1 | — |
| Crate & Barrel | retail | 1 | 145 |
| Dean & Deluca | retail | 1 | 14 |
| Domino's Pizza | pizza | 1 | 8,000 |
| Hard Rock Cafe | food | 1 | 140 |
| Holiday Inn | businesshotel | 1 | — |
| Jamba Juice | dessert | 1 | 707 |
| Kate Spade | retail | 1 | — |
| Kiehl's | retail | 1 | — |
| Lions Club | club | 1 | — |
| National Bookstore | book | 1 | 70 |
| National Sports | retail | 1 | 20 |
| Outback Steakhouse | food | 1 | — |
| Panda Express | fastfood | 1 | 1,072 |
| Rite Aid | pharmacy | 1 | 5,000 |
| Salvation Army | retail | 1 | — |
| Salvatore Ferragamo | retail | 1 | — |
| Service Experts | specialty | 1 | — |
| St. John | retail | 1 | — |
| Tutoring Club | school | 1 | 177 |
| Starbucks name only | coffee | 63 | 3,500 |
| Honda name only | car | 11 | — |
| MANGO name only | retail | 6 | 850 |
| UNIQLO locations name only | retail | 6 | — |
| Mitsubishi name only | auto | 5 | — |
| Toyota name only | car | 5 | — |
| YMCA name only | fitness | 4 | — |
| HSBC name only | bank | 3 | — |
| Borders name only | book | 2 | 559 |
| Cartier name only | retail | 2 | — |
| Lacoste name only | — | 2 | — |
| Manor name only | retail | 2 | — |
| Mothercare name only | retail | 2 | — |
| Aldo name only | retail | 1 | — |
| Bebe name only | retail | 1 | — |
| Champion name only | supermarket | 1 | 1,000 |
| Greyhound name only | travel | 1 | — |
| Gucci name only | — | 1 | 207 |
| Jacob name only | retail | 1 | 200 |
| Kamay name only | retail | 1 | 5 |
| Kinokuniya name only | book | 1 | 56 |
| Midas name only | auto | 1 | 1,800 |
| Nissan name only | auto | 1 | — |
| Origins name only | haircare | 1 | — |
| Progressive name only | supermarket | 1 | 150 |
| Raffles name only | luxuryhotel | 1 | 8 |
| Renaissance name only | upscalehotel | 1 | — |
| Safeway name only | supermarket | 1 | 1,767 |
| Sheraton name only | upscalehotel | 1 | — |
| Stitches name only | retail | 1 | — |
| Tiffany name only | retail | 1 | 150 |
| TUMI name only | retail | 1 | — |
| Valero name only | fuel | 1 | 5,500 |
| Wellcome name only | retail | 1 | 240 |
| Wingstop name only | fastfood | 1 | 263 |
| Ziebart name only | auto | 1 | 500 |
Real estate as a local trade
Four unrelated jobs share the name: selling existing homes, owning and letting them, managing them for someone else, and building new ones. For anyone weighing a move or a licence these are the counts — and the ownership question goes to /property, which answers it building by building.
Real estate is a local job market in its own right, and four unrelated trades get the same name. Counts are businesses filed under each trade in the register, which lists a brokerage once however many agents work there — so this measures firms, not licensees.
Selling homes
5312Offices of agents and brokers — the resale market, and the biggest single trade in most Canadian cities.
Named in the register
- 100 West Makati Condo Sales Office — Washington Street 100
- Bamboo Mosaic Properties — Araullo Street 93
- Cityville Realty and Development
- Empire East
- Esperanza L. Osmeña, Inc. — A. Mabini Street 1991
- Filinvest — EDSA 79
- Profriends Center — Tinio Street 55
- Profriends Showroom — Ayala Avenue
- Real Estate Lessons — Manuel Roxas Street 2414
- Roy Realty — Gregorio Araneta Avenue 84
- The Arton Sales Office
Owning and letting
5311Lessors of real estate: the buildings themselves, filed under the building rather than the owner.
Named in the register
- 91.5 Win Radio Manila — Shaw Boulevard
- Avalu — P. Guanzon Street 4984
- Baked Studios — Yakal Street 7452 Warehouse
- Bel-Air Soho — Badajos Street
- Brigada 105.1 News FM Manila — EDSA
- DWAD Now Radio — Shaw Boulevard 209
- DWBL 1242 — EDSA
- Florentina Building — Pililia Street 9652
- Heart's Dorm
- Jam 88.3 — EDSA
- Mellow 94.7 — EDSA
- The Studio Residences
- Three Central
- Zeke Dealer — Panay Street
Managing for owners
5313Property managers, who run buildings the landlord does not.
Named in the register
- Carosa Property Leasing — Jorge Bocobo Street 1622
Who actually owns it
The full property record →From the /property research for this city, which asks a different question: not who trades in property here, but who owns it. An owner is named there only where a document says so. Torrens title copy to anyone with the title number, PHP 196.97.
Landowners
- Philippine Ports Authority (Republic of the Philippines) — Port of Manila — 137.5 ha land area; North Harbor 53 ha, South Harbor 80 ha
- City of Manila (City Government of Manila) — City Hall; Rizal Memorial Sports Complex; 7 ha Harrison Plaza lot; partner in the 318 ha Manila Waterfront City reclamation
- Intramuros Administration — Walled city of 64 ha (0.67 km² district)
- Office of the President (Republic of the Philippines) — Malacañang Palace complex, San Miguel
- Philippine National Railways — Tutuban station land — 20 ha offered for lease in 1988
- University of Santo Tomas (Dominican Order) — 21.5 ha campus, Sampaloc
Homebuilders
- Robinsons Land Corporation (RLC Residences) — Robinsons Place Residences (2 towers), Adriatico Place (3 towers), Otis 888 Residences (195 units on 3.0 ha, Paco, launched Feb 2009)
- DMCI Homes, Inc. (DMCI Holdings, PSE: DMC) — Torre de Manila, 46 floors, Ermita
- City of Manila (city government housing) — Tondominium 1 and 2 — 14 storeys, 42 m² two-bedroom units
Commercial landlords
- Robinsons Land Corporation — 273,000 m² GFA in two Manila malls (Robinsons Manila 241,000 m²; Robinsons Otis 32,000 m²); 57 malls nationally
- SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (PSE: SMPH) — SM City Manila (opened 14 Apr 2000), SM City San Lazaro (15 Jul 2005), SM Harrison Plaza (due 2027); 88 malls nationally
- Megaworld Corporation (PSE: MEG) — Lucky Chinatown, Binondo — 108,000 m²
- Ayala Land Logistics Holdings Corp. (Tutuban Properties, Inc.) — Tutuban Center leasehold — 1,083 retail units in seven buildings (2015)
- Manila Hotel Corporation — Manila Hotel, 35,000 m²
12 marquee buildings examined, 11 with an owner established.
On "how many doors"
How many doors a landlord holds is not in any of this. The register files an apartment building under the building, not its owner, and carries no unit count; there is no open dataset of Canadian landlords by portfolio. Where this research has established ownership it is in the Manila (City of Manila) property record for the city, building by building, which is a different and much slower exercise.
Work on the go, mobile services
The Ultimate 411 half of local: everything where the customer does not have to come to you. Each service opens a page on Ultimate 411 to request a quote or book a time.
A shop needs the customer to walk in. These 186 services do the opposite — the mobile mechanic, the mobile groomer, the bookkeeper, the junk haul — and they are the ones a person can start without a lease. 1 of them already match a trait filed in this city's register.
The 186 Service=1 rows in search.local: work on the go, mobile services, where the provider travels to the customer. "present" counts businesses already filed under that exact trait name; a blank is a coverage gap, not proof of absence, because the two vocabularies were built separately.
home services
services
events
pets
luxury
healthcare
sporting goods
sports
business
outdoors
travel
construction
Schools and colleges
wander.schools is a post-secondary table — universities and colleges. K-12 public and private schools are not in it, and only 7 of its 1,686 rows carry coordinates, so these are listed and not mapped.
In the business register
Where schooling shows up as a business rather than an institution — which is where K-12, tutoring and childcare appear.
Health and care
What a person moving a parent here would ask first. The register files clinics and pharmacies; it has no category for a hospital at all, so hospitals are matched by name and the limit is stated rather than hidden.
Matched on the name "hospital"
- PCBP Animal Hospital — J. P. Rizal Street
- IOM Manila Health Centre — H. V. de la Costa Street 105
- Unciano Paramedical General Hospital
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
- Maria Clara Health Center
- Sta. Cruz Health Center - Makati City Health Department — Zapote Street
- Poblacion Health Center - Makati City Health Department — A. Bonifacio Street
- Onse Health Center — J. P. Rizal Street
- Cebu Health Center
- Makabayan Health Center — Sergeant Bumatay Street
- Addition Hills Health Center — Hoover Street
- Little Baguio Health Center — Alvir Street
- Santa Lucia Health Center — B. S. Angeles Street
- Perpetual Succor Maternity Hospital — Florentino Cayco Street
- Lying-in & Health Center — Nueve de Pebrero Street
- Highway Hills Health Center — Mariveles Street
- Philippine General Hospital Psychiatry & Behavioral Medicine Department — Taft Avenue
- Harapin ang Bukas Health Center — Senator Neptali A. Gonzales Street
- Burol Puericulture & Health Center
- Barangka Itaas & Ibaba Health Center — P. Oliveros Street
- A.H. Lacson Health Center — Suter Street
- Tejeros Barangay Health Center — H. Santos Street
- Guadalupe Viejo Health Center - Makati Health Department — Gumamela Street
- Palanan Health Center — Casino Street
- San Isidro Health Center — Guatemala Street
- Isabelita Health Center — Pinaglabanan Street
- Philippine General Hospital — Taft Avenue
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital — P. Sanchez Street 46
- Isidro Mendoza Health Center — Jesus Street 2158
- Kalayaan Health Center
- Leveriza Health Center — Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue
- PPBCC Veterinary Hospital
- Saint Martin de Porres Charity Hospital — A. Bonifacio Street
- Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital — P. Sanchez Street
- Singkamas Health Center - Makati City Health Department — F. Nazario Street
- Pinagkaisahan Health Center - Makati City Health Department — Danlig Street
- San Miguel Health Center
- Mary Chiles General Hospital
- Makati Dog and Cat Hospital
- Veterinary Hospital
- San Antonio Health Center — Mayapis Street
- Oblisa (Olympia) Health Center - Makati City Health Department — Fortuna Street
- Rosario Reyes Health Center — San Andres Street 627
- Mauway Health Center — Nueve de Pebrero Street
- Belmonte Health Center — P. Florentino Street 1648
- Trinity Woman and Child Hospital — New Panaderos Street
- Santa Ana Hospital — New Panaderos Street 2692
- San Andres Health Center
- Galas Health Center — Bayani Road
- St. Francis General Hospital
- Calabash Health Center — Sobriedad Street
- PCBP Animal Hospital — Shaw Boulevard 289
- Bagong Silang Barangay Health Center
- San Jose Barangay Health Center
- Unciano Paramedical General Hospital
- Namayan Barangay Health Center
- ES General Veterinary Hospital — P. Guevarra Street 450
- Tibagan Barangay Health Center — Don E. Ejercito Street
- Presidential Security Group Station Hospital
- Esperanza Health Center — Teresa Street
- Kabayanan Health Center — F. Blumentritt Street
- Welfareville Main Health Center
- Buhay Mahalaga Health Center — Arellano Street
- F. Legarda Health Center — E. Quintos Sr. Street
- Carmona Health Center - Makati City Health Department — H. Santos Street
- Bagong Lipunan Health Center — L. Certeza Street
- Kahilom 1 Health Center — Felix Street
- Saniga Health Center and Women's Clinic
- Vergara Health Center — Ilino Cruz Street
- Bagong Barangay Health Center — West Zamora Street
- Valenzuela Health Center - Makati Health Department — Baler Street
- Batis Health Center — F. Manalo Street
- Pasay City General Hospital — Padre Burgos Street
- Paco Health Center
- Manila Doctors Hospital — Kalaw Avenue
- Philippine General Hospital — Taft Avenue
geonet carries no 'hospital' trait, so these are matched on the business name. A distance-to-hospital figure needs a source that states hospital locations.
Funded & hiring here
Companies in this city that have raised money, and the careers pages of employers here, from the /employers research and the company database. For someone looking for work here, this is the shortlist.
Careers pages — 2 more employers here
Each link goes to the company's own careers page or official job board, not a third-party listing site. Largest local staff first.
| Company | Staff here | Jobs |
|---|---|---|
| MetrobankFinance | — | Careers → |
| Robinsons MallsRetail | — | Careers → |
What this record cannot tell you
Named in full, because the gaps are the part most likely to be misread as an answer.
- No census figures on this page: this region is not mapped to a census subdivision in local/census-map.json, so the community counts here are business-register institutions, which is a different measurement and cannot substitute for a population.
- wander.schools is now readable, but it holds universities and colleges only and 1,679 of its 1,686 rows have no coordinates. K-12 public and private schools need a separate source — in Ontario the Ministry of Education school finder, in British Columbia the provincial school list. wander.citytowns, hotels and territories remain denied to the ru user.
- No 'hospital' trait exists in geonet; distance to a hospital needs an external source such as StatCan's Open Database of Healthcare Facilities.
- 0.0% of businesses here carry no coordinates, so a map or address lookup would miss them. Postal codes reach 15%.
Built from
geonet.manila— the local business registerwander.regions— city name, population, metrosearch.local— trait vocabulary and the come-to-you servicessearch.cozfranchises— 2,024 franchise brands