In the past year, there’s been a lot of growth in the Hong Kong co-work space arena. While 80/80 Space and The Loft opened in Kowloon; Platform, Paperclip and Garage Society launched on the Hong Kong side – and that’s not including government-backed spaces such as Smart-Space at Cyberport or The Hive’s Kennedy Town and Sai Kung expansions.

In a recent interview that we did with The Hive’s founder Constant Tedder, we learned that a number of changes in new tech (such as mobile computing) and career choices (telecommuting and freelancing) are supporting the co-work space model. “As the corporate world changes itself, startups are having an impact on bigger companies and on people’s ambitions for their personal careers,” he said. “People are working independently because it suits the way they want to live – and co-working spaces support a big part of that.”

While there is certainly a supply of them, and trends are indicating that there is and will be a demand – are the spaces getting used?

To do a bit of sleuthing on this – we’ve put together a poll of all the co-working spaces in Hong Kong based on the 16 registered on Startbase.HK. Help us determine which space is delivering the most value.

Note from the editor: We’re aware this is a broad question as there are many deciding factors that go into choosing a co-work space – the answer we’re looking for is who you think offers the most OVERALL (location, network, perks, workshops etc.). Depending on the answers we get from this poll – we might create one that’s more category specific in the future.

The poll has closed – see below for results:

We received 1913 responses in the poll from the startup community in 17 Days. What we found most interesting about this exercise (which was a first attempt at getting a pulse on Hong Kong’s co-work space phenomenon) was that each co-work space took to social media in order to generate votes, and relied heavily on their respective communities to help them win.

Our own Casey Lau commented that the poll helped rally a sense of camaraderie among each co-work space community and sparked healthy competition – similar to the Hogwart’s Houses in Harry Potter. While we’re not saying who’s Gryffindor or Slytherin – here are the results from the poll.

Your top three choices were:

The Hive received 773 votes which was 40% in total
WYND received 617 votes which was 32% in total
Garage Society received 289 votes which was 15% in total

Geographical breakdown:

Full results:

Voter comments:

“The Hive delivers excellent space and the community is creative and friendly. Top choice for sure.”

“WYND provides a comfortable open space to meet new, like-minded entrepreneurs. Should definitely try their coffee machine and mingle with their intelligent receptionsts!”

“Garage Society helps my company strategically.”