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Housing

Dwelling Units under HDB's Management, by Town and Flat Type

Data from Apr 2008 to Mar 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:21 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Number of dwelling units by Financial year

Data explorer

DwellingUnitsunderHDBsManagementbyTownandFlatType.csv (4.9K rows, 191 KB)

Financial Year Financial Year (YYYY)	Town or Estate Text	Flat Type Text	Sold or Rental Text	Number of Dwelling Units Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)1.1%
2008	Ang Mo Kio	1-room	Rental Units	1318
2008	Ang Mo Kio	1-room	Sold Units	0
2008	Ang Mo Kio	2-room	Rental Units	2860
2008	Ang Mo Kio	2-room	Sold Units	633
2008	Ang Mo Kio	3-room	Rental Units	62
2008	Ang Mo Kio	3-room	Sold Units	24437
2008	Ang Mo Kio	4-room	Rental Units	3
2008	Ang Mo Kio	4-room	Sold Units	13023
2008	Ang Mo Kio	5-room	Rental Units	0
2008	Ang Mo Kio	5-room	Sold Units	5252

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Financial Year (YYYY)	-	-
Town or Estate	town_or_estate	Text	-	The 3 HDB estates are Bukit Timah, Central Area and Marine Parade.
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	From FY 2015 onwards, 2-room sold flats include 2-Room Flexi flats.
Sold or Rental	sold_or_rental	Text	-	-
Number of Dwelling Units	no_of_dwelling_units	Numeric	Number of Dwelling Units	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_07b1eeeb22efdf7faf5bd6a13667359d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). Dwelling Units under HDB's Management, by Town and Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_07b1eeeb22efdf7faf5bd6a13667359d/view

About this dataset

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Created on

10 Jun 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)