How Many Expats?

[HeijoshinCool]

Anyone know how many expats live in Phuket year round?

[Old Croc]

"Onshore Phuket is a welcoming place that can quickly begin to feel like home. More than 100,000 foreign residents have chosen to make a life here. Foreigners from across the globe have integrated into the local community, transforming Phuket into a multicultural, international retirement destination. Expats make up more than 21 percent of the total permanent population of Phuket Province"

This is a quote from a magazine article in another thread about retirement in Phuket.

Don't know how accurate it is.

[HeijoshinCool]

"Onshore Phuket is a welcoming place that can quickly begin to feel like home. More than 100,000 foreign residents have chosen to make a life here. Foreigners from across the globe have integrated into the local community, transforming Phuket into a multicultural, international retirement destination. Expats make up more than 21 percent of the total permanent population of Phuket Province"

This is a quote from a magazine article in another thread about retirement in Phuket.

Don't know how accurate it is.

Yeah, I saw that. But since pretty much everything else in the article was BS, I wondered if 100k wasn't an exaggeration, too.

Anyone?

[phuketrichard]

i'd say under 25,000 (those that live here at least 8 months of more/year)

maybe half that number again only come in high season for 4 months or less

not including Burmese ?

[stevehaigh]

'Expats make up more than 21 percent of the total permanent population of Phuket Province' that seems like total BS to me, one in 5 people is an 'Expat', i assume by that they mean foreigner.

even in Rawai where we have a lot of expats i'd say it was more like 1 in 50, north island probably one in a couple of hundred

[Shot]

23,459. What do I win?

Edited June 7, 2013 by Shot

[JetsetBkk]

23,459. What do I win?

Do you know someone in Immigration?

Oops, strike that - they wouldn't know would they!

[NomadJoe]

I also read 100,000 somewhere recently. When I asked at immigration once when doing my 90 day residence update, they said 70,000, but that was only people doing 90 day notifications and didn't include people that did not have to do the 90 day notification due to leaving the country every 90 days or less.

[Somtamnication]

"Onshore Phuket is a welcoming place that can quickly begin to feel like home. More than 100,000 foreign residents have chosen to make a life here. Foreigners from across the globe have integrated into the local community, transforming Phuket into a multicultural, international retirement destination. Expats make up more than 21 percent of the total permanent population of Phuket Province"

This is a quote from a magazine article in another thread about retirement in Phuket.

Don't know how accurate it is.

I choked on my coffee when I read the word "integrated".

[Felt 35]

430000 Thais, 112000 Burmese,8600 expats, 4800 villain`s and 11000 retired caucasians.

[Roel]

So the answer to the OP's question is - not surprisingly - NO.

[HeijoshinCool]

Ah, well ...

[MacChine]

Well registered population of what? 350,000 so 35- or possibly 70,oo - 100,000 is not an unsubstantial percentage.

ANd then how many unregistered regional foreigners is what I'd like to know.

practically enslaved Burmese for one...

mmm.. Are there more foreigners on Phuket than Thais?

Does this give anyone an idea?

Edited June 9, 2013 by MacChine

[Guest]

I think that most of the Thais who live in Phuket are not registered here. Some earlier estimates say that there are 1 to 1.5 million people living on the island (I suppose during high season).

Edited June 9, 2013 by Guest

[Jimi007]

There was a census conducted here in Phuket about three years ago which I took part in. I'm not sure what happened with the results...

[Shot]

From Wiki:

" Phuket provincial population in preliminary count of 2010 census was counted to be 525,018 people, including some 115,881 foreigners, or 21.1% of the population. However, it is admitted this is inaccurate since The Phuket Provincial Employment Office currently records for more than 64,000 Burmese, Lao and Cambodian workers legally residing on the island.^[20] Final figures are to be released later in 2011."

[Jimi007]

From Wiki:

" Phuket provincial population in preliminary count of 2010 census was counted to be 525,018 people, including some 115,881 foreigners, or 21.1% of the population. However, it is admitted this is inaccurate since The Phuket Provincial Employment Office currently records for more than 64,000 Burmese, Lao and Cambodian workers legally residing on the island.^[20] Final figures are to be released later in 2011."

So 2011 came and went, plus another year and a half without any final figures being released. They also stopped publishing data about drownings, accidents and foreigner's deaths about the same year. How does any of this not surprise me... Phuket's Government is all smoke and mirrors, just an illusion...

[Shot]

From Wiki:

" Phuket provincial population in preliminary count of 2010 census was counted to be 525,018 people, including some 115,881 foreigners, or 21.1% of the population. However, it is admitted this is inaccurate since The Phuket Provincial Employment Office currently records for more than 64,000 Burmese, Lao and Cambodian workers legally residing on the island.^[20] Final figures are to be released later in 2011."

So 2011 came and went, plus another year and a half without any final figures being released. They also stopped publishing data about drownings, accidents and foreigner's deaths about the same year. How does any of this not surprise me... Phuket's Government is all smoke and mirrors, just an illusion...

Yup, looks that way. I looked around for the "Final figures", but no luck.

[Old Croc]

At least we now know where that retirement magazine got their figures.

[watcharacters]

I may have phased the question as to how many expats enjoy pain in Phuket and still stay there.

Sorry that was a bad joke.

[Shot]

I may have phased the question as to how many expats enjoy pain in Phuket and still stay there.

Sorry that was a bad joke.

[Jimi007]

It's great here this time of year! Windy, rainy and without all the tourists and Thais from other provinces that come to feed off the tourism trough!

[HeijoshinCool]

There was a census conducted here in Phuket about three years ago which I took part in. I'm not sure what happened with the results...

Maybe the batteries in their calculator pooped.