Loakan from the 1500’s to 1700’s was known first as an Ygolote territory, then as an Igorot settlement, even as other places north of Pangasinan were called by the Spaniards. But to the descendants of its known early settlers, namely Baruy, son of Amdikit of Chuyo, and Sa’bot of Loacan, it was Ibaloi Teritory.

Even the descendants of a 1700^th settler of the place (the same descendants of Baruy and Sa’bot) call themselves Ibalois.

Certainly, a descendant of an 1800 migrant to the place who still live in the area say their ancestors Kalias spoke Ibaloi, even as she and her fellow descendants still do.

And fo a quite a while, it remained an Ibaloi Teritory where the only other people coming in and joining early settlers and their descendants were Ibalois from other places who came to work and who got to marry the daughters of the land.

With the opening in the 1930’s of the Demonstration Mines at the western side of that section no occupied by the Philippine Military Academy, lowlanders and other highlanders started moving into Loakan. Of these , we have the ff. who stayed in Loakan to raise their families: Papay from the sub- province of Bontoc, Ruiz from Pangasinan who married a lass from the sub- province of Bontoc; Monica, the widow of a miner who eventually married a son of Loakan; Modesto Tioaquen from the Ilocos, and a few others.

At the same period that the Demonstration Mines opened, there were also migrants from the Northern Benguet who started moving into the place.

With the opening of the airport also in the 1930’s, some people from Ilocos and Pangasinan who came to work decided to settle in the place.

At present,the population of two barangays at the central part of the old Loakan, i.e. the Loakan Proper and the Loakan- Liwanag Barangays is approximately ½ Ibaloi and ½ of other ethnolinguistic groups (Iloco, Pangasinan, Bontoc, etc.)

The 1980’s gas brought about an influx of migrants who came to work at the Export Processing Zone who got married I n Loakan) and eventually settled in the area. Some also came to work and brought their families into place.

There are also others who bought lands in the area because of its prospects. Hence the big increase of migrants into the area during the past ten years compared to the trickle that flowed from the 1930’s.

 The Ibaloi population of the place is made up mostly by descendants of the 1800^th settlers of Loakan.

 Presently, the place is known now is home also to people of other ethnolonhuistic groups from other parts of the Philippines who started trickling in to the place from the 1930’s.