Housing Statistics
According to the 2006 census, the total Hong Kong population was 6.6 million. The breakdown by type of housing was as follows:
- Public rental housing: 31.0%
- Housing Authority subsidized sale flats: 17.1%
- Housing Society subsidized sale flats: 0.7%
- Private permanent housing: 49.3%
- Temporary housing: 0.7%
- Non-domestic housing: 1.2%
Subsidized sale flats listed here are not tradeable in the open market.
In 2009, 53.9% of the 2.3 million domestic households were owner-occupiers.
In 2004/2005, housing expenditures were accounting for an average of 30.6% of the average monthly household expenditures, with utilities accounting for an additional 3.4%.
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