Wang Kuo-yi points out that Rennie's Mill had 20,000 people at its peak, but has stabilized at the current 7,000 or so, of whom two or three thousand are "original refugees."
王國儀指出，調景嶺人數最多時，曾達兩萬人，後來則穩定在一萬人上下，目前此地居民共有七千多人，其中由大陸來的「原始難民」約兩、三千人。