Pok Hong Estate () is a

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, Hong Kong near

Sha Tin Wai station Sha Tin Wai () is a station on the in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. The name "Sha Tin Wai" comes from the village called Sha Tin Wai, which is located to the northeast of the station. It was provisionally called "Sha Kok Street" before the Ma On Shan l ...

. It consists of eight residential blocks completed in 1982, 1983 and 1985. Its site was originally a shallow sand beach near

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. Some of the flats were sold to the tenants through

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Phase 5 in 2002.

Background

In the 1970s, the

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began to develop a

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in Sha Tin, and it filled the shallows and the adjacent Sha Tin Hoi to build

Sha Kok Estate Sha Kok Estate () is a public housing estate in Sha Tin Wai, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong near Pok Hong Estate, Jat Min Chuen and Sha Tin Wai station. The estate consists of seven residential blocks completed between 1980 and 1982. The blo ...

and

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, and carried out blasting works in the vicinity of Pok Hong Estate; and the planning area number of the estate was numbered "Sha Tin Area 5A". Later, the government decided to build public housing there. When the name of the housing estate was initially determined, it was originally named Tsok Pok Hang Estate, and later shortened to Pok Hang Estate, and was officially named Pok Hong Estate in 1981, which also means "a lot of health".

Houses

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Pok Hong Estate had a population of 13,987. The median age was 52.3 and the majority of residents (98.4 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.7 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$22,000.

Politics

Pok Hong Estate is located in Pok Hong constituency of the

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. It is currently represented by Chiu Chu-pong, who was elected in the 2019 elections.

COVID-19 pandemic

Pok Tat House of Pok Hong Estate was put under lockdown from 19 February 2022.RTHK
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