The City of Ormoc is a chartered city composing of 29 districts and 81 barangays. It has only four School Districts that compose the Ormoc City Division of schools namely, Ormoc East, Ormoc West, Ormoc South and Ormoc North. Presently it has a population of 169,000 with four colleges.

The city is 109 kms. away from the provincial capital City of Tacloban and travel time is approximately 2 hours. It is the nearest port of entry to the Queen City of the South, Cebu City where travel time is two (2) hours by fast craft and five (5) hours by ordinary boat. Though small in area, its highly industrialized with one sugar mill, two (2) powerplants supplying enegy to Luzon and Visayas and another plant producing raw alcohol. It has three (3) hospitals, two privately owned and one government. As to religious beliefs, 70% are Catholics and 30% distributed to different religious sects. The biggest commercial establishment is GAISANO MALL and Ormoc Centrum, however, there are also several ones but are smaller. The livelihood of the Ormocanons ranges from agriculture, fishing, family business ventures and company employment.