Balakong: Condos, Apartments and Area Guide

Balakong started as Balakong Chinese New Village, set up under the Briggs Plan during the Malayan Emergency. The village was surrounded by rubber and old tin mines, and many families were rubber tappers. One story says the name comes from Sungai Balak, a river through the village, with "kong" from the Hakka word for river.

From the 1990s the Taming Jaya development rebuilt Balakong Road and added housing and a small industrial area. Since the early 2010s, Dataran C180 and Cheras Traders Square have added shops and offices. The Kajang Municipal Council (MPKj) runs Balakong.

Balakong, which is its own state seat (N27), is in the Bangi seat (P.102). DOSM gives household income for the whole seat, not for each town in it. The median household in the seat earned RM 12,653 a month in 2024, up from RM 11,474 in 2022, and the mean was RM 14,778. That is the highest median of the 22 parliament seats in Selangor, against a state median of RM 10,726. With about 723,800 people in 2024, Bangi is also the most populous seat in the state, and it covers Kajang, Bangi, Balakong, Sungai Long and part of Cheras.

Most of our Balakong buildings are flats and apartments. In NAPIC sales in the 7 buildings we matched, a flat sold for a median of RM 242 psf in 2024 (20 sales), or RM 190,000 per unit. There were too few matched sales in 2025, and too few condominium sales, to give a figure. All high-rise sales in Hulu Langat district had a median of RM 341 psf in 2025, and flats RM 263 psf.

• RIO @ Cheras South: condominium.
• Silk Sky: serviced residence in Kampung Baru Balakong.
• Amerin Residence: serviced residence in Taman Impian Indah.
• Symphony Tower (Menara Simfoni): serviced residence.
• Mount Karunmas: condominium.
• Apartment Kenari: apartment in Taman Impian Ehsan.
• Juara Suria Apartment: apartment in Taman Juara Jaya.

• Primary: SJK (C) Balakong, SJK (C) Batu 11 Cheras, SK Taming Jaya, SK Desa Baiduri and SK Cheras Jaya.
• Secondary: SMK Cheras Jaya, SMK Cheras Perdana and SMK Perimbun.
• UTAR's Sungai Long campus is close by.

• Columbia Asia Hospital Cheras, a private hospital in Cheras Selatan, opened in 2010.
• The nearest government hospital is Hospital Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin (formerly Kajang Hospital).

• AEON Mall Cheras Selatan, the largest mall in Balakong.
• The Sin Ann Meow Temple in Balakong.
• Shops and food at Dataran C180 and Cheras Traders Square.

The MRT Kajang Line, opened here in 2017, serves Balakong through Batu 11 Cheras station, at the Balakong interchange of the Cheras–Kajang Expressway, and Bandar Tun Hussein Onn station. By road, the SILK expressway has a Balakong interchange linking the Besraya Expressway near Seri Kembangan with the Cheras–Kajang Expressway.

Yes. Balakong is a township in the Selangor part of Cheras, in Hulu Langat district, run by the Kajang Municipal Council.

In NAPIC sales in the Balakong buildings we matched, a flat sold for a median of RM 190,000, or RM 242 psf, in 2024.

Balakong is in the Bangi seat (P.102) and is its own state seat, Balakong (N27).

Batu 11 Cheras station on the MRT Kajang Line, at the Balakong interchange. Bandar Tun Hussein Onn station is the next stop towards KL.