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Property analysis
Where people are, how they are ageing, and the homes being built for them — from the 2020 census, the department's own estimates, and the developers' register.
Bau
District · Sarawak
Where it is
⭐ The district outline is shown because it may be. District boundaries are published by the Department of Statistics under CC BY 4.0. The mukim pages carry no outline for the opposite reason.
Who lives here, 2025
Men to the left, women to the right, each bar a share of the whole population. A base narrower than the middle means fewer people arriving than are already here.
By community
Malay
4,800 8.9%
Men 2,500 · Women 2,300
Other Bumiputera
39,500 73.4%
Men 20,300 · Women 19,200
Chinese
8,600 16%
Men 4,400 · Women 4,200
Non-citizens
900 1.7%
Men 500 · Women 400
⛔ Each chart is scaled within itself, so the shapes can be compared but the widths cannot — the head-count above each one carries the size. An empty band means fewer than 50 people, not none: the Department of Statistics rounds every published cell to the nearest 100, and a small community spread across 36 age-and-sex cells will have several that round to zero. For the same reason the six do not quite add to the district total. 2025 estimates.
Homes still to come
No licensed development in this district has homes still to be delivered.
Sources: Department of Statistics Malaysia, Population & Housing Census 2020 and current population estimates (CC BY 4.0); housing register of licensed developments. Boundaries © DOSM (CC BY 4.0).