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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area of Residence and Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Notes: Planning areas refer to areas demarcated in the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Master Plan 2019. Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17596

Last updated 2 days ago (7 Sep 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaofResidenceandLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2020.csv (32 rows, 7.3 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
(English) Total
Numeric
(English) English Only
Numeric
(English) English & Mandarin
Numeric
(English) English & Chinese Dialect
Numeric
(English) English & Malay
Numeric
(English) English & Tamil
Numeric
(English) English & Other Indian Language
Numeric
(English) English & Other Language
Numeric
(Mandarin) Total1/
Numeric
(Mandarin) Mandarin Only
Numeric
(Mandarin) Mandarin & English
Numeric
(Mandarin) Mandarin & Chinese Dialect
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Total1/
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Chinese Dialect Only
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Chinese Dialect & English
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Chinese Dialect & Mandarin
Numeric
(Malay) Total1/
Numeric
(Malay) Malay Only
Text
(Malay) Malay & English
Numeric
Indian Languages - Total
Numeric
(Indian Languages - Tamil) Total1/
Text
(Indian Languages - Tamil) Tamil Only
Text
(Indian Languages - Tamil) Tamil & English
Text
(Indian Languages - Other Indian Languages) Total1/
Numeric
(Indian Languages - Other Indian Languages) Other Indian Language & English
Numeric
(Other Languages) Total1/
Numeric
(Other Languages) Other Language & English
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.1%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)3.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total35962841735242229429973515125507233779880594494940004107517223999752893430132831325891759449471634213322567927825022311376489946145827242823818188722659219945
Ang Mo Kio1412736204195393661055034148392099213294774812832194241520019001615521619965670722714324480639227963067885614970608
Bedok2415971241932141065469104881627032814778249864065164722812019206223367560315510797246027811165845012330140026781711139513891148
Bishan7901850219766831664463822332259712104618464408689355363656617291278307417525141154149612101311022286163521411
Bukit Batok14326166118765736459541695553813182413944439196022228212365108722972140460161452134971088562414860770398013819241118645
Bukit Merah12503159832800736364553134753813107415693302768691533410737191216780250391637237296140654644407290230265725091169797
Bukit Panjang128606590596491347703086906634871050110942135794321327126741007427861185574913210278610339337327813652315592521755609
Bukit Timah6909152776131832959355949585751126174811425192273742066306472710361192354107211407239311931681681066771
Choa Chu Kang18097582356706646256379015386611716392102575361146429879160251180832041505672621393401717272671255801061429211328521171927
Clementi805274117656082516338923281140467411532161547681074059778583252516074111586118443921252119723431551549507771558
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_21f546492a87dec38391fc72eb4c7890"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area of Residence and Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_21f546492a87dec38391fc72eb4c7890/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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

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