HONG KONG POPULATION with focus on new towns
Map Note:
Data supplied by Census & Statistics Department from the 1991 Population Census. Population Density is based on Tertiary Planning Unit. In the calculation, virtually uninhabited. areas such as country parks and firing ranges are excluded.
YUEN LONG
1177
59.6%
40.4%
76.4%
POPULATION CHANGE IN NEW TOWNS Population Growth*
Private Housing Residents
1986
1986 1991
(Thousand persons
500
400
1991
300
200
100
Public Housing Residents
Population growth in a new town is attributed not only to the balance of internal movements in and out of the new town, but also to the natural increase (fe. births over deaths) and the balance of migration.
Internal Movement
Move in from H.K. Island,
Kowloon & New Kowloon
in the New Territories:
Move in from other areas
( Thousand persons)
100.0 & over
500 - 99.9
10.0
49.9
5.0 - 9.9
under 5.0
Move in from other New
Towns
Move out to other areas in Hong Kong
TUEN MUN
46.2
363.8
43.5%
34.4%
56.5%
65.6%
265.1
30.0
16.5
TIN SHU WA
THEN LONG
TUEN MUN
Future Airport
11.3
TUNG CHUNG
LANTAU ISLAND
35.9
POPULATION BY AGE & SEX: 1981 & 1991
85
Age
1991 1981
75
$80-84
70-74
$60-84
1991
15054
1981
40
30-34
20-24
-10-14:
(Thousand persons
-0-4-
200
Series AR/16/P3 Edition 1 1992
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FANLING SHEUNG SHUI
124.6
39.0%
61.0%
67.2%
42.8%
NEW TERRITORIES
38.8
TAI PO
192.6
51.6%
48.4%
54.6%
45.4%
120.8
17.2
POPULATION GROWTH : 1971
1991
{Million persons)
CHEUNG SHUI
FANLING
POPULATION DENSITY: 1991
{Persons per km2)
TSUEN WAN
KWAI
SING
KOWLY
HONG KONG ÍSL
TSUEN WAN
KWAI TSING
35.7
440.8
269.9
28.8%
67.3%
82.9%
32.7%
24.7%)
71.2%
17.1%
134.1
75.3%
61.2
30.6
522.5
72.5
POPULATION BY EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT: 1981 & 1991
( PERSONS AGED 15 & OVER )
6.7%
43.0%
34.2%
16.1%
(3.7 million)
11.3%
50.7%
{4.4 milion)
58.3
9.3
3
2
Whole
Territory
HK Island Kowloon & New Kowloon
100 000 & over
50 000 - 99 999
0
10 000 - 49 999
197
1000 - 9 JUN
500 - 999
under 500
virtually uninhabited
District Board Electoral Boundary
TSEUNG KWAN O
2.0
86.6
48.7%
51.3%
Developed as
a New Town
since 1988
29.4
130.9
SHA TIN
506.0
47.7%
52.3%
44.4%
55.6%
360.9
New Towns
Other areas In the New
Territories
1997
OCCUPIED QUARTERS BY TYPE OF HOUSING : 1981 & 1991
529.8
Tertiary
Matriculation / Secondary
106.5
63.9
115.7
Primary
No-schooling / Kindergarten
(Thousand units)
740.2
574.9
404.2
Private Housing
Public & Aided Housing
Home Ownership Estate
Temporary Housing
Cartography by Survey & Mapping Office Buildings & Lands Department Hong Kong Government
46.1