On October 14, the population in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward exceeded 900,000 for the first time. The main factor behind the population growth has been an increase in the supply of housing, particularly newly built apartments. Of the new residents, a number have been young students attending the many universities in the area.
When the ward began recording data in 1932, the resident population in October of that year was 173,000. Following WWII, housing development, including the construction of many large-scale public housing complexes, saw the population swell to 500,000 by 1954 and 700,000 by 1965. Setagaya's population is forecast to reach 1,087,275 residents by 2042.
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