Hong Kong Spatial Database
Our free public database integrates spatial data from our key research findings over the years.
In addition to our key research findings, the database facilitates public access to geographic information related to different policy categories on the same platform, allowing researchers to repurpose it for other research purposes. To make research data more readable, accessible and reusable, our database integrates spatial information from our research outputs with government data. (Source: Common Spatial Data Infrastructure Portal, HKSAR Government. We have included their data in our database in accordance with Clause 3 of its “Terms and Conditions of Use”. Data as of April 2023 are marked with an asterisk [*] in our database).
For context and research background on each dataset, users are welcome to access our research archives or “Research Data Related to the Dataset” below.
Overlaying datasets
Datasets
Land & Housing: Small houses
- Suspected illegally-built small houses (2018-2020)
- Case Studies of Suspected illegally-built small houses (2018-2020)
- Suspected illegally-built small houses (1972-2017)
- Potential land reserve for building small houses through illegal means (2021)
- “Village Environ” under the Small House Policy*
- Village-type Development” zoning under Town Planning Ordinance*
Land & Housing: Brownfields
- Actual extent of brownfields 1993, 2003, 2017
- Actual extent of brownfields 2021
- Brownfields not covered by long-term town planning (2021)
- Idle or vacant brownfields (2022)
- Brownfields in Northern Metropolis having development potential (2022)
Land & Housing: Housing
- Hong Kong Nano-flat Database (2010-2019)
- Cases of residential property tax avoidance by share transfer (2018)
- Public housing estates non-residential properties divested to the Link REIT
Land & Housing: Redevelopment
- Land acquisition by developers within the Kowloon City Redevelopment Study Area
- 【地權現身】剖析九龍城重建收購狀況 (Chinese only)
- Buildings issued with Demolition Consent 2005-2015
Land & Housing: Data outside of Hong Kong
- Completion of residential projects by Chinese or Hong Kong real estate developers in the United Kingdom since 2019
- Large-scale reclamation projects worldwide (including those with progress issues, 1986-2022)
Land & Housing: Others
- Remaining pig farms threatened by New Development Areas or private acquisition (2021)
- Unpublished
- Under-utilised Government Land (2021)
Conservation: Wetland Conservation
- Boundaries of Wetland Conservation Area & Wetland Buffer Area (2022)*
- Land holdings of Henderson Land, New World Development, Sun Hung Kai, Cheung Kong Holdings, other private companies and individual holdings in the Wetland Area (up to 2018)
Conservation: Environmental Protection
- Proposed or in-progress infrastructure projects on marine space (2021-2022)
- Green tourism & related real estate projects in Mirs Bay 2015-2023 (Area under The Northern Metropolis eco-recreation/tourism circle)
Conservation: Heritage Conservation
- The 8803 historic buildings identified in the “Territory-wide Survey of Historic Buildings” between 1996-2000
- Existing Declared Monuments & Graded Historic Buildings (2021)*
Planning data from HK Government*
- Green Belt*
- Country Parks Boundary*
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
- Marine Parks and Marine Reserves Boundary*
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department
- Permitted burial grounds of the New Territories Indigenous Villagers*
- Vacant Government Sites Available for Application for Greening or Government/Institution/Community Uses (2022)*
- Ecologically Important Streams*
- New Development Areas*
- Development Bureau
Note: The public is welcome to download and repurpose the spatial datasets by quoting the data source (Liber Research Community). Although listed on the download page, some datasets originate from the Government of Hong Kong (which are marked by * above), and they are the intellectual property of the Government of Hong Kong and the CSDI Portal. Please click here to check the terms and conditions of the use of those datasets.