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Appendix 37
(Chapter 8: Land and Housing)
Number of Domestic Units and Estimated Number of Persons Accommodated
Domestic Units-- Departmental or Agency figure as at March 31, 1971
Increase/ Decrease
Persons Accommodated-
Census Figure as at March 9, 1971
Permanent
Number
in year
10,800
+ 300
56,400(B)
177,700
+ 700
804,300
6,700
-500
41,000
+
27,000
153,500
31,800 + 6,700
17,000 + 1,100
253,500
271,000
+ 8,300
1,311,200
...
2,300
11,700(B)
32,700
+ 1,100
139,600
2,300
+ 100
7,600
8,300
+ 4,000
34,600
3,100
•
2,100
30,400
50,800
+ 5,200
223,900
281,900
+ 8,300
1,688,500
64,500 + 7,300
287,600
668,200
+29,100
3,531,200
Urban Areas
Government Quarters(A)
Resettlement Estates
Resettlement Cottage Areas
Government Low-Cost Housing
Housing Authority
Housing Society
Total
New Territories
...
Government Quarters(A)
Resettlement Estates
Resettlement Cottage Areas
Government Low-Cost Housing
Housing Authority
Housing Society
Total
Residual Mainly Private
Urban Areas...
New Territories
Total Permanent
Non-Permanent
Squatters, occupants of licensed/resite
areas and in-
Urban Area
New
habitants of non-
Territories...
domestic premises
Marine
Notes:
Total Non-permanent
Colony Land Total ...
Colony Population
(i) All figures have been rounded off to the nearest hundred.
165,400
160,100
325,500
3,856,700
79,900
3,936,600
(ii) For departmental or agency figure, NT figures include those for Tsuen Wan District of the New Territories Administration; for Census figure, Urban Areas figures include those for Kau Wah Keng and Butterfly Valley.
(A) Population figures include officers living in barrack type accommodation (12,400 in the urban areas, 4,100 in the New Territories) but this type of accommodation is not included in the domestic unit figure.
(B) Census figure is not available for this item and the departmental figure as at March 31,
1971, is used.