But with the social and economic transformation of recent decades, traditional farming villages have gone into decline. Chuantsaitou has suffered a gradual population drain, and today in this neighborhood some 500 hectares in area there only remain around 120 residents, in a few dozen households.
然而近幾十年社會轉型，傳統農村面臨沒落命運，船仔頭社區人口逐漸外流，大約擁有五百甲土地的聚落裡，只剩下了不到幾十戶、一百二十位的居民。