Lok Fu Estate

Lok Fu Estate
General information
Location	198 Junction Road, Lok Fu Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22.3361°N 114.1868°E / 22.3361; 114.1868
Status	Completed
Category	Public rental housing
Area	12.2–57.7 m^2 (131–621 ft^2)
Population	9,700
No. of blocks	11
No. of units	3,700
Construction
Constructed	1957; 67 years ago (1957), 1961; 63 years ago (1961) (original), 1984; 40 years ago (1984) (current)
Authority	Hong Kong Housing Authority

Hong Keung Court
General information
Location	23 Heng Lam Street, Lok Fu Kowloon, Hong Kong
Coordinates	22.3361°N 114.1868°E / 22.3361; 114.1868
Status	Completed
Category	Home Ownership Scheme court
Area	53–80 m^2 (570–860 sq ft^2), 39–60 m^2 (420–650 ft^2)
No. of blocks	1
No. of units	640
Construction
Constructed	1999; 25 years ago (1999)
Authority	Hong Kong Housing Authority

Lok Fu Estate
Traditional Chinese	樂富邨
Simplified Chinese	乐富邨
Cantonese Yale	lohk fu chyūn
Literal meaning	music abundant estate
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lèfù Cūn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization lohk fu chyūn Jyutping lok6 fu3 cyun1

Lok Tung House, 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]

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]	Type	Completion	Floors	Units per floor	Units
Wang Hong House	Old Slab (Special Edition)	1984	17	42 (Floors 6 and 7), 38 (other floors)	464
Wang Lok House			18	17	255
Wang Shun House			6	35	109
Wang Tat House			4	18	18
Wang Yat House			17	38	456
Wang Yuk House		1985	18	17	255
Lok Tung House	Linear 3	1989	24	20	523
Lok Tai House	Harmony 1A with Harmony Annex 2	1995/1996	18	20 (without wing), 29 (with wing)	469
Lok Him House	Harmony 1A		19	20
Lok Tsui House					19
Lok Man House			24

Hong Keung Court

Name[8]	Type	Completion	Floors	Units per floor	Units
Hong Keung Court	Harmony 1	1999	40 (Floors 1-40)	16	640

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

• Wang Tau Hom Estate
• Public housing in Hong Kong
• List of public housing estates in Hong Kong

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. 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)^[permanent dead link‍]
7. Lok Fu Estate
8. Hong Keung Court
9. "Major Housing Estates". 2016 Population By-census. Census and Statistics Department. Retrieved 20 February 2020.