Pleasant Environment Statistics 2019-2022

Markets and Stalls Licences in Force Permits in Force Livestock Slaughtered Water Sampling for Examination Pest Control Refuse & Junk Collection Cleansing Convictions Fixed Penalty Cemeteries and Crematoria

Markets and Stalls

Markets (as at 31 December)	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Markets	97	98	97	96

Market Stalls (as at 31 December)	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Stalls (excluding cooked food)	13 041	12 970	12 593	12 511
No. of Cooked Food Stalls	973	973	962	943
Total	14 014	13 943	13 555	13 454

Licences in Force

Food Business and Other Trade Licences (as at 31 December)	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Food Business Licences (Full Licence)
General Restaurant	11 448	11 799	12 037	12 630
Light Refreshment Restaurant	3 927	4 059	4 106	4 280
Marine Restaurant	5	5	5	6
Bakery	575	573	546	529
Cold Store	63	65	68	79
Factory Canteen	481	489	487	485
Food Factory	8 275	8 898	9 668	10 666
Fresh Provision Shop	2 557	2 717	2 984	3 243
Frozen Confection Factory	504	514	482	457
Milk Factory	8	8	8	8
Siu Mei and Lo Mei Shop	366	384	403	429
Composite Food Shop	3	3	2	2
No. of Trade Licences
Commercial Bathhouse	51	51	48	46
Funeral Parlour	7	7	7	7
Offensive Trade	7	7	7	5
Swimming Pool	1 309	1 333	1 361	1 380
Undertakers of Burials	125	127	128	134
No. of Liquor Licences
Liquor	8 218	8 320	8 853	9 200
Club Liquor	413	403	378	372
No. of Places of Public Entertainment Licences (Full Licence)
Places of Public Entertainment	251	265	277	298
No. of Private Columbarium
Private Columbarium	4	7	9	11
No. of Slaughterhouse Licences
Slaughterhouse	3	2	2	2
Total	38 600	40 036	41 866	44 269

No. of Hawker Licences in Force (as at 31 December) (excluding temporary licences and deputy permits)	2019	2020	2021	2022
Fixed-pitch	5 045	5 246	5 268	5 200
Itinerant	370	348	330	304
Total	5 415	5 594	5 598	5 504

Permits in Force

No. of Permits in Force (as at 31 December)	2019	2020	2021	2022
Chinese Herb Tea	417	411	422	413
Food Vending Machine	205	356	388	417
Cut Fruit	798	795	813	808
Frozen Confections	2 656	2 752	3 097	3 244
Milk	2 045	2 066	2 295	2 468
Non-bottled Drinks	634	662	759	862
Shell Fish (Excluding Hairy Crab)	109	110	119	130
Shell Fish (Hairy Crab)	106	113	155	212
Online Sale of Restricted Food	422	804	1 632	1 901
Others	473	490	520	555
Total	7 865	8 559	10 200	11 010

Livestock Slaughtered

No. of Livestock Slaughtered	Slaughterhouse	2019	2020	2021	2022
Pig	Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse	835 351	598 436	717 011	847 994
	Tsuen Wan Slaughterhouse	107 981	158 233	183 726	236 043
	Cheung Chau Slaughterhouse^#	2 328	--	--	--
Sub-total		945 660	756 669	900 737	1 084 037
Cattle	Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse	15 344	14 657	13 480	11 839
Goat	Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse	1 802	1 446	1 714	1 260
Total		962 806	772 772	915 931	1 097 136

# Cheung Chau Slaughterhouse was closed on 1 October 2019.

Water Sampling for Examination

No. of Water Samples Tested From	2019	2020	2021	2022
Swimming Pool	8 196	3 219	5 430	5 138
Bath Pool	60	52	12	34
Well and Tap / Stream	771	663	619	698
Fish Tank	10 727	10 075	10 018	9 566

Pest Control

	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Mosquito Inspection	847 088	820 324	848 281	825 930
No. of Rodents Trapped/Poisoned	53 986	60 860	67 182	77 232

Refuse & Junk Collection

	2019	2020	2021	2022
Average Daily Collection (in tonne)	5 832	6 097	6 132	6 115

Cleansing

Facilities (as at 31 December)	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Public Refuse Collection Points	2 914	2 930	3 008	3 021
No. of Public Toilets	799	808	807	805
No. of Public Bathhouses	27	26	26	26
No. of Aqua Privies	51	40	35	34

Convictions and Fines Imposed for Environmental Hygiene Related Offences

	2019	2020	2021	2022
Food Premises Hygiene (including licensed food premises, unlicensed food premises)
No. of convicted cases	10 014	5 428	5 807	6 791
Fine (HK $Mn.)	47.5	25.2	24.0	24.8
Public Cleansing (including littering, spitting, obstruction to scavenging operation, unauthorized bill and poster, dogs fouling in public places, other cleansing matters)
No. of convicted cases	51 354	50 816	56 862	50 005
Fine (HK $Mn.)	82.2	79.8	88.9	79.0
Hawker and Market (including licensed hawker, unlicensed hawker, market stall operator)
No. of convicted cases	21 316	17 016	20 155	22 689
Fine (HK $Mn.)	23.5	20.4	26.2	28.7
Mosquito Breeding
No. of convicted cases	357	137	167	184
Fine (HK $Mn.)	2.2	0.7	1.0	1.0
Others (including unlicensed offensive trade, unlicensed place of public entertainment, commercial bathhouse, swimming pool etc.)
No. of convicted cases	351	207	330	214
Fine (HK $Mn.)	0.7	0.4	0.5	0.3

Enforcement Figure of the Fixed Penalty (Public Cleanliness and Obstruction) Ordinance*

	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of $1,500 Fixed Penalty Notices Issued Related to Offences of Public Cleanliness^	48 000	47 000	51 000	47 000
No. of $1,500 Fixed Penalty Notices Issued Related to the Offence of Obstruction of Public Places^	8 000	11 000	15 000	16 000

* The "Fixed Penalty (Public Cleanliness Offences) Ordinance" has been amended to "Fixed Penalty (Public Cleanliness and Obstruction) Ordinance" since 24 September 2016.
^ The figure is rounded to the thousand digit

Cemeteries and Crematoria

Cemeteries and Crematoria	2019	2020	2021	2022
No. of Cemeteries (as at 31 December)
Public Cemetery	10	10	10	10
Private Cemetery	27	27	27	27
Cemetery under Commonwealth War Graves Commission	2	2	2	2
No. of Crematoria (as at 31 December)
Public Crematorium	6	6	6	6
Private Crematorium	6	6	6	6
No. of Burial
Coffin	2 780	2 852	2 712	2 957
Urn	1 118	1 008	1 348	1 607
No. of Cremation
Body	45 543	46 465	48 106	59 685
Skeletal Remains	1 552	1 672	1 690	2 267
No. of Exhumation
Coffin	3 355	2 838	3 277	3 379
Urn	684	563	879	878
No. of Exhumation Permit Issued
Exhumation Permit Issued	4 005	3 681	4 273	4 242