Lok Fu Estate

Lok Fu Estate (Chinese: 樂富邨) is a public housing estate in Lok Fu, Wong Tai Sin District, Kowloon, Hong Kong, near Lok Fu station on the MTR.[1]

Lok Fu Estate
Traditional Chinese樂富邨
Simplified Chinese乐富邨
Cantonese Yalelohk fu chyūn
Literal meaningmusic abundant estate
Lok Tung House, Lok Fu Estate

Hong Keung Court (康強苑) is a Home Ownership Scheme court near Lok Tung House, Lok Fu Estate. It has one block built in 1999.

History
Lok Fu Estate in 1973

Lok Fu Estate was formerly the Lo Fu Ngam Resettlement Area (老虎區徙置區) and has a total of 23 blocks, 12 Mark I type and 11 Mark II type, built in 1957.[2] As local residents found the name Lo Fu Ngam (Tiger Hill) inauspicious, the settlement was later renamed to Lok Fu (happy and prosperous).[3] A former shrine at the site was moved to a new location in Kwun Tong, which is now within the Tsui Ping Estate.[4] In 1973, the area was renamed the Lok Fu Estate.[5] It started rehabilitation and redevelopment in the 1980s. In 1991, the six blocks in the nearby Wang Tau Hom Estate were allocated to the Lok Fu Estate.[6]

Houses
Lok Fu Estate

Lok Fu Estate
Name[7]TypeCompletion
Wang Hong HouseNew Slab1984
Wang Lok House
Wang Shun House
Wang Tat House
Wang Yat House
Wang Yuk House1985
Lok Tung HouseLinear 31989
Lok Tai HouseHarmony 11996
Lok Him House1995
Lok Tsui House
Lok Man House

Hong Keung Court
Name[8]TypeCompletion
Hong Keung CourtHarmony1999

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Lok Fu Estate had a population of 9,952. The median age was 50.8 and the majority of residents (96.5 per cent) were of Chinese ethnicity. The average household comprised 2.7 persons. The median monthly household income of all households (i.e. including both economically active and inactive households) was HK$16,450.[9]

See also

References
  1. Wong Tai Sin District Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Wong Tai Sin District
  3. Scott, Janet Lee (1982). "Structure And Function In An Urban Organization: The Mutual Aid Committees". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. 22: 5. ISSN 0085-5774.
  4. Myers, John T. (1975). "A Hong Kong Spirit-Medium Temple" (PDF). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch. Vol. 15: 16–27. ISSN 1991-7295.
  5. 三十三年前的樂富邨 (Chinese Version)
  6. 橫頭磡邨 (in Chinese)
  7. Lok Fu Estate
  8. Hong Keung Court
  9. "Major Housing Estates". 2016 Population By-census. Census and Statistics Department. Retrieved 20 February 2020.

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