A recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey reveals that nearly three out of four Filipino adults believe public bicycle use would increase if road safety conditions improved.
Conducted from June 20 to 29, the Second Quarter 2026 survey found that 73% of respondents agreed with the statement, “more people will use bicycles as transportation if the roads will be safer for them.”
Meanwhile, 16% disagreed and 9% remained undecided, resulting in an “extremely strong” net agreement score of +58.
SWS noted a slight shift from April 2022 among household heads, where 80% agreed, 10% were undecided, and 8% disagreed, yielding a net agreement score of +72. Net agreement remained notably high across various demographics, registering extremely strong scores of +68 in both Metro Manila and Balance Luzon, and very strong scores in Mindanao (+44) and the Visayas (+42).
Geographic and demographic breakdowns indicated that net agreement was extremely strong across urban (+59) and rural (+56) sectors, among men (+60) and women (+56), and across most age brackets and educational levels.
The survey also measured national household bicycle utilization, finding that 26% of Filipino households—equivalent to roughly 7.3 million homes—had at least one member using a bicycle for any activity. This figure marks a decline from 28% (7.7 million households) in March 2024 and 36% (10 million) in March 2023.
Among these cycling households, improving health was the top motivation at 35%, followed by transportation, work, and livelihood at 32%, and recreation at 20%.
Despite the drop in active users, household ownership of bicycles surged. Bicycle-owning households climbed to 23% (about 6.3 million) in June 2026, up from 16% (4.4 million) in March 2024. Consequently, the ratio of bicycle-owning households to car-owning households hit a record 5:1, the highest recorded in the 26-survey series.
The nationwide face-to-face survey sampled 1,200 adults—300 from each of the National Capital Region, Balance Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao—and carried a sampling error margin of ±3%.