On May 22, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Home Affairs issued instructions for renaming neighborhoods and hamlets for localities subject to administrative unit arrangement.
According to the Resolution approved by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council in mid-April 2025, Ho Chi Minh City will adjust 272 out of a total of 273 existing units. Notably, only Thanh An island commune (Can Gio district) is kept intact.
After the arrangement, Ho Chi Minh City will have 102 commune-level administrative units, including 78 wards and 24 communes. This leads to the need to adjust the names of neighborhoods and hamlets to suit the new administrative area.
According to the instructions of the Department of Home Affairs, the People's Committee of Thu Duc City, the districts and districts will be the unit in charge of developing a plan to rename the neighborhood and hamlet, based on the list of wards and communes reorganized. After collecting opinions of the Party Committee, localities complete the plan and compile the dossier to submit to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee through the Department of Home Affairs.
Notably, voter opinions will be widely collected in many forms such as: distributing ballots to each household, organizing residential meetings, holding dialogue conferences between the People's Committees at the commune level and the people, or through online channels such as information portals and local websites.
The form of issuing comments is popular and suitable for each neighborhood, hamlet, or inter-neighborhood, inter-hamlet depending on actual conditions.
After collecting and summarizing voters, the People's Committees of districts, People's Councils of Thu Duc City and districts will issue a resolution and decision to recognize the new name of the neighborhood and hamlet. These documents will be sent to the Department of Home Affairs to evaluate and complete the name change before May 5.
The Department of Home Affairs requires localities to urgently deploy and complete the process of recognizing the renaming of neighborhoods and hamlets before May 30, 2025.
Previously, in March 2024, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council issued a resolution related to division, merger, establishment and renaming of neighborhoods and hamlets.
The whole city currently has 4,861 neighborhoods and hamlets. The average population size is adjusted in the direction: each neighborhood has about 500 households, each hamlet has about 350 households.
The renaming of neighborhoods and hamlets is the next step to complete the administrative management system after Ho Chi Minh City implements the arrangement of commune-level administrative units, and is preparing for the removal of district-level ones from July 1, 2025.
