According to the census, it has a population of , people. While Angeles City is politically independent from the province of Pampanga , it is usually grouped with it for statistical purposes. Angeles City is one of the proposed metropolitan areas in the Philippines. The new settlers cleared the woodland and cultivated the area for rice and sugar farming. There were only taxpayers then but the law required that it should have at least taxpayers. Located some 10 miles 16 km north of Pampanga's capital, Culiat became a barrio of San Fernando for 33 years and on December 8, , became a separate municipality.
The progressive barrios developed some new industries like a sugar mill and a wine distillery. The transition of Angeles from a jungle clearing to a barrio, to a town and finally to a city took years and in all that time, it survived locusts' infestations, wars, epidemics, volcanic eruptions and typhoons to become one of the fast rising towns in the country.
When it received its first official municipal charter, the town contained some people, houses and an area of It then became the site of celebrations for the first anniversary of Philippine independence, which was proclaimed a year earlier in Kawit , Cavite. Events included a parade, led by the youngest ever Filipino generals, Gregorio del Pilar and Manuel Tinio , with General Aguinaldo viewing the proceedings from the Pamintuan Residence, which was the Presidential Palace from May to July and later was the Central Bank of the Philippines office in Central Luzon, before its ownership passed to the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
Aguinaldo's sojourn was short, however, for in July of this same year he transferred his government to the province of Tarlac following Angeles' occupation by the American forces. On August 10, , U. However, the Filipino Army defending the town refused to give in so easily and fiercely fought back and for three months, they battled the Americans in and around the town.
It was only after the battle on November 5, , that the town finally fell into American hands. This led to the establishment of an American camp in Barrio Talimundoc in what is now Lourdes Sur , located next to the railroad station, in order to establish control over the central plains of Luzon. In January , General Frederick D. Grant organized the first U. Civil Government in Angeles by appointing an alcalde or municipal mayor, beginning American rule over Angeles.
