Po Lam (Chinese: 寶琳 or 寶林) is a neighbourhood in northern Tseung Kwan O, New Territories. An MTR station with the same name, Tseung Kwan O Village, Yau Yue Wan Village, King Lam Estate, and Po Lam Estate are located there. Name Po Lam is named after one of the first roads in Tseung Kwan O, the Po Lam Road, whose name was taken from the Chinese translation of the first name of Barbara B. Whitener (寶琳), Rev. Sterling H. Whitener's wife. Rev. Whitener was a missionary based at the Haven of Hope Tuberculosis Sanatorium (now Haven of Hope Hospital) at the time. When Po Lam Estate was under planning, it was named "寶林邨", with a different second character but pronounced in the same way. The Po Lam MTR station, on the contrary, used "琳". Government documents have used both names, referring to the area as "寶琳" in a brochure issued by the Planning Department, but also using "林" for the Po Lam Sports Centre within Po Lam Estate. Residents generally use both name interchangeably. History Same as Hang Hau, Po Lam was developed as part of the first phase of the Tseung Kwan O New Town. Its first population intake came in 1988 with the opening of Po Lam Estate. Before 2002, there was no railway access to or from Po Lam. The Tseung Kwan O line, including Po Lam station, opened in August 2002. In addition to the new town area, two villages, Tseung Kwan O Village and Yau Yue Wan Village, are also considered part of Po Lam, although their histories date back to long before the Tseung Kwan O New Town was conceived. Demographics Po Lam is designated Tertiary Planning Units 836 in the 2016 Population By-census. It is home to 88,272 people, where major ethnic groups are Chinese (95.2%), Indonesians (2.3%) and Filipino (1.5%). Most households live in subsidised home ownership housing (such as Home Ownership Scheme and Sandwich Class Housing Scheme projects) and private housing. Housing Public housing Po Lam Estate (). The second character ("林", Lam) is different from the one in the neighbourhood's name King Lam Estate Home Ownership Scheme housing Yan Ming Court Ying Ming Court Ho Ming Court Others The Pinnacle (developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society under the Sandwich Class Housing Scheme) Radiant Towers (developed by the Hong Kong Housing Society under the Sandwich Class Housing Scheme) Verbena