Sam Shing Estate () is a

public housing estate Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

Tuen Mun Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more re ...

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

, Hong Kong, near Light Rail Sam Shing stop and

Castle Peak Beach Castle Peak Beach () is a gazetted beach in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, beside Sam Shing Estate. It looks onto Castle Peak Bay and the Tuen Mun typhoon shelter, although it is separated from the typhoon shelter by a breakwater. The beach comprises 2.97 ...

. Built on the

reclaimed land Land reclamation, usually known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new Terrestrial ecoregion, land from oceans, list of seas, seas, Stream bed, riverbeds or lak ...

Castle Peak Bay Castle Peak Bay is a bay outside Tuen Mun. Tuen Mun River empties into the bay. In the past, many Tanka fishermen harboured at the bay. In 1513, explorer Jorge Álvares arrived in the Pearl River Delta and started a Portuguese settlement, Ta ...

, it is the third public housing estate in Tuen Mun and the estate consists of 3 residential blocks completed in 1980. It was named for nearby

Sam Shing Hui Sam Shing Hui () is an area and a former fishing village in Tuen Mun, Tuen Mun District, Hong Kong. See also * Sam Shing Estate * Tuen Mun Road * Tuen Mun San Hui * So Kwun Wat So Kwun Wat, commonly pronounced So Kwun Fat, is an area on the ...

, a

fishing village A fishing village is a village, usually located near a fishing ground, with an economy based on catching fish and harvesting seafood. The continents and islands around the world have coastlines totalling around 356,000 kilometres (221,000 m ...

in the district, and most of the residents in the estate were fishermen.

Houses

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Sam Shing Estate had a population of 5,044. The median age was 43.4 and the majority of residents (96.3 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household size was 2.8 people. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$20,500.

Politics

Sam Shing Estate is located in Sam Shing constituency of the

Tuen Mun District Council The Tuen Mun District Council () is the District Council of Tuen Mun District, in the New Territories. It is one of 18 such councils. The Council consists of 32 members with 31 of those elected through first past the post system every four year ...

. It was formerly represented by Michael Mo Kwan-tai, who was elected in the 2019 elections until July 2021.

Education

Sam Shing Estate is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 71. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government schools are in the school net.

References

{{Public housing estates in Hong Kong, state=expanded Residential buildings completed in 1980 Tuen Mun Tuen Mun District Public housing estates in Hong Kong Housing estates with centralized LPG system in Hong Kong 1980 establishments in Hong Kong