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Appendix 35
(Chapter 8: Land and Housing)
Number of Domestic Units and Estimated Number of Persons Accommodated at March 31, 1970
Persons Accommodated
Increase] Decrease
Permanent
Urban Areas
Government Quarters A
Resettlement Estates B...
Resettlement Cottage Areas
Government Low Cost Housing
Housing Authority
Housing Society...
Total
New Territories
Government Quarters A
Resettlement Estates B...
Resettlement Cottage Areas
W
Government Low Cost Housing B Housing Authority
Housing Society ...
Total
Residual Mainly Private
Urban Areas
New Territories
Total Permanent
Urban Areas
Temporary
Squatters...
Occupants of licensed/resite areas
New Territories
Squatters...
-
Occupants of licensed/resite areas
Permittees E
Total Temporary
Colony Land Total
Marine
Floating Craft
Domestic Units
No
Increase Decrease in year
No
in year
10,500
177,000
7,200
27,000
25,100
15,900
+++++
100
55,100
+ 2,800
922,500
+ 4,900 +37,300
1,400
48,300
5,000
154,200
- 10,200 +27,200
800
152,100
+ 8,600
600
98,100
+ 1,400
+
262,700
+ 7,900
1,430,300
+69,200
2,300 -+ 200
11,200
+
600
31,600
154,600
+ 9,700
2,200
9,300
200
4,300
+ 1,800
21,800
+18,500
3,100
19,800
200
2,100
13,200 + 500
:
45,600
229,900 + 2,000
+28,900
273,600
57,200
639,100
3,254,500
± 7,700} 1,594,300 C – 14,100
+17,300
+84,000
64,900 D 2,600
J
338,700
5,600 + 200
30,200
-13,600 + 2,100
39,500
300
150,400
4,600
1,300
+ 200
6,700
+ 1,200
J
36,600
+ 2,400
169,000
+10,000
147,900
100
787,000
+17,200
695,000 3,949,500
4,900
+79,100
21,900 + 500
Colony Population
..
Notes: (i) All Figures have been rounded off to the nearest hundred.
102,800 F
4,052,300 G +79,100
(ii) New Territories 'Domestic Units' and 'Persons Accommodated' figures in-
clude those for Tsuen Wan District.
A. Population figures include officers living in barrack type accommodation (11,300 in the urban areas, 4,000 in the New Territories) but this type of accommodation is not in- cluded in the domestic unit figure.
B. Although the number of domestic units completed is smaller than that for 1968-9 the large increases in population are mainly due to the filling of units handed over after the end of the previous year.
C. The Urban and New Territories residual population figures have been combined in the
table due to the difficulty in reconciling population estimates for the New Territories. D. Figures are based on number of families not on numbers of structures. The term squatter
means the occupant of an unlawful structure.
E. Permittees are occupants of Crown Land in the New Territories who hold the land on permits which may be cancelled at one month's notice. Such permits are usually cancelled only when an area is due for development; permittees in areas not due for development often erect buildings of a more substantial character. Occupants of private agricultural land for which Modification of Tenancy permits have been granted to allow the erection of temporary structures are also classified as permittees. The increase in permittees in the New Territories is mainly due to the regularisation of temporary structures during the year.
The 1966 By-census marine population figure (as adjusted) has been retained as an accurate count has not been undertaken since that time.
F.
G.
Figures are derived from the deliberations of the Working Party on Half Yearly Popula- tion Estimates.