It is recorded on an 1866 map and was part of an alliance of seven nearby villages led by Nga Tsin Wai Tsuen.
In the 1940s many refugees arrived in the area, which was then known as Lo Fu Ngam (Chinese: 老虎岩; Cantonese Yale: Lóuh Fú Ngàahm, literally "Tiger's Den" in Chinese).
[2] After the construction of the public housing estate started in 1957 with the first resettlement blocks being built, Lo Fu Ngam was renamed as Lok Fu which literally means "Happiness and Wealth" in Chinese.
[8] The anchor tenant of the shopping mall is the Japanese department store Uny.
Lok Fu is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 43.