Municipal Profile- San Jose de Buenavista, Antique
Economy

As a center of trade and commerce in the province, San Jose de Buenavista has complete facilities and institutions such as: schools and colleges; health facilities; resort and recreation centers; a wet market; seaport, airport, transportation and communication facilities; cooperatives, banks and other financing institutions; hotel and lodging houses. The municipality is also the site of all dominant religious churches.

In 2002, the municipality has 33 policemen providing public safety augmented by barangay tanods per barangay. It has an average monthly crime rate of 0.33 percent. The crime solution efficiency is 94.70 percent. There is one fire station equipped with fire truck, fire hydrants and other fire fighting equipment being manned by 15 firemen and supervised by a fire officer.

There is one Rural Health Center and a hospital (Angel Salazar Memorial General Hospital) which had recently availed added medical facilities aside from its renovation/rehabilitation.

The municipality has a total road network of 70.698 kilometers of which 29.688 kilometers - national road; 7.151 kilometers - provincial road; 9.093 kilometers - municipal road and 24.766 kilometers - barangay road.

San Jose has a total of four bridges along national roads classified into construction type: two concrete and two timber trestle. It has an aggregate length of 59.24 lineal meters.

Serving the communication needs of the population are the Bureau of Telecommunications and GLOBELINES Telephone Company with individual house connections. The post office is operated by the Bureau of Postal Corporation at the poblacion. Cellular phones and a number of calling stations both local and international are also available. The municipality is also serviced by a cable television and has two radio stations. Internet services are also available in the municipality.

Transportation facilities to and from neighboring municipalities and the rest of the provinces in Panay Island are public utility vehicles such as buses, vans and jeepneys. Within the municipality, tricycles and jeepneys provide transport services to the populace.

Water supply system in the municipality is generally classified into three types: level - I (dug wells and artesian wells) numbering to 3,047 units serving 26,672 population; level - II (communal faucets) numbering to five units serving 1,535 population and level – III (individual houses connections) one (1) system serving 16,001 population.

Total population served with potable water is 97.31 percent and the rest get water from doubtful sources.

Ninety six percent of the total barangays are energized by Antique Electric Cooperative (ANTECO); other areas unserved by the local electric cooperative are proposed for alternative energy sources.

Having a seaport contributed much to the rapid economic growth of town. Commercial shipping vessels ply San Jose to Manila and vice versa twice weekly. The Evelio B. Javier Airport is now undergoing rehabilitation, with funds amounting to P 40million.

Being a business center, there is a need for additional power installation especially at the coastal area and concrete paved roads to hasten the transport of products and enhance service facilities.

The Municipality of San Jose had been a Galing Pook Awardee. It has a housing project located at Barangay Supa, approximately 3 kilometers away from the town proper. The Supa Plains Subdivision is a housing project of the National Housing Authority and funded through the Resettlement Assistance Program. The first NHA-assisted housing project is a model/pilot project in the province. The land is divided to 109 families that belonged to the displaced and homeless/landless and families who are below poverty line with income less than P6,000/month.