Tsuen King Garden
housing estate in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
Tsuen King Garden (Chinese: 荃景花園) is one of the largest private housing estates in Tsuen Wan, New Territories, Hong Kong, located at Tsuen King Circuit. It comprises 12 high-rise buildings in two phases which were completed between 1987 and 1988, and was developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Demographics
According to the 2016 by-census, Tsuen King Garden had a population of 7,734. The median age was 42.6 and the majority of residents (95.6 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$38,000.
Politics
Tsuen King Garden is located in the Discovery Park constituency of the Tsuen Wan District Council. It is currently represented by Lau Cheuk-yu, who was elected in the 2019 elections.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tsuen King Garden” as housing estate in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as housing estate in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7849934. Authority coordinates are 22.378, 114.109. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 1988, 2016 and 2019.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tsuen King Garden” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.