Groceries from Ankang Market, and for a walk, the Xindian riverside one way or the wooded slope behind the tower blocks the other
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Life in Ankang runs along Xianghe Road and Ankang Road. For groceries there's the Ankang Public Retail Market, with a fresh-food supermarket on the ground floor and a public childcare centre on the floor above; PX Mart and Simple Mart also have shops in the area.
Walks go two ways: north to Sunshine Sports Park on the bank of the Xindian River, or towards the hills to Ankang Forest Park, about 3 hectares tucked into the slope behind the apartment blocks. Real-estate listings describe the area as backed by hills and facing the water, with mostly low- to medium-density housing.
Ankeng was originally a valley on the west bank of the Xindian River, with shops and government offices across the river in central Xindian. Large housing estates have gone up here since; Gonglun Village alone had 14,228 residents at the end of 2025.
The Ankeng Light Rail opened in February 2023, with three stations in the neighborhood: Jinwen University of Science and Technology, Ankang and Sunshine Sports Park. To get into Taipei, you ride to the terminus at Shisizhang Station and change to the Circular Line. For public transport, this neighborhood ranks 46th out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, in the middle.
Ankang Station is at the junction of Ji'an Street and Anhe Road, right next to the freeway's Ankeng Interchange and Ankang Senior High School. The school began as a branch campus and became independent in 1980 as Ankang Junior High School; it added a senior high section in 1998, becoming a combined junior and senior high school.
The long-established school in the neighborhood is Ankeng Elementary School, which had 1,942 pupils in the 2026–27 school year.
The light rail stations are clustered along Ankang Road and Xianghe Road, so people living up in the hills and down the lanes still depend on buses or cars. Real-estate listings also say some developments involve walking up and down slopes, and the lanes are on the narrow side.
Ankang Road is busy at peak times, and the listings call it Ankeng's long-standing traffic bottleneck; getting into Taipei means changing at Shisizhang, which makes the commute longer.
From our street-view photos, everyday shopping ranks 81st out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei and sidewalks rank 79th, both toward the bottom.
Ankeng was first written with a character meaning "dark", and when it was opened up the settlement was called Ankeng Zhuang, the "dark hollow". In 1801 Lin Dengxuan, grandson of Lin Tiancheng, found the "dark" name unrefined and changed it to the similar-sounding character for "peace", the Ankeng used today.
As Han settlers pushed into the hills they were in constant conflict with the Atayal, and they advanced as armed groups under the jieshou (group-leader) system; along Ankang Road there are still place names containing "cheng" (stockade), such as Dingcheng and Xiacheng, and Xiacheng Village is inside the neighborhood.
In 1899 Ankeng Public School was founded, first holding classes in the home of Mr Lai Tinghui, with just 34 pupils. Under the Republic of China the area gained an even more refined name, Ankang. Work on the light rail began in 2016, and it opened in February 2023.
Compared with the 100 New Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the New Taipei City Education Department's 2026 school-year catchment lists, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" marks a free-choice zone where families can pick between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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