Tin Tsz 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, d ...

Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due nort ...

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, Hong Kong near Light Rail

Tin Tsz stop Tin Tsz () is an MTR Light Rail (MTR), Light Rail stop. It is located at ground level near the Tin Shing Road, near Tin Tsz Estate, in Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District, Hong Kong. It began service on 7 December 2003 and belongs to Zone 4 of single- ...

. It consists of four residential buildings completed in 1997 and contains 3,400 rental flats of sizes ranging from 12.8 to 43.3m². Tin Lai Court () is a

Home Ownership Scheme The Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) is a subsidised-sale public housing programme managed by the Hong Kong Housing Authority. It was instituted in the late 1970s as part of the government policy for public housing with two aims – to encourage be ...

court in Tin Shui Wai, near Tin Tsz Estate. It has only one Harmony-typed block built in 1997.

Houses

Tin Tsz Estate

Tin Lai Court

Demographics

According to the 2016 by-census, Tin Tsz Estate had a population of 9,026. The median age was 43.4 and the majority of residents (96 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$22,000.

Politics

Tin Tsz Estate and Tin Lai Court are located in Tsz Yau constituency of the

Yuen Long District Council The Yuen Long District Council () is the district council for the Yuen Long District in Hong Kong. It is one of 18 such councils. The Yuen Long District currently consists of 45 members, of which the district is divided into 39 constituencies, ...

. It is currently represented by May Chan Mei-lin, who was elected in the

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