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Housing

Median Rent By Town And Flat Type

Data from Apr 2005 to Dec 2024Updated 19 days ago

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

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MedianRentByTownAndFlatType.csv (12.4K rows, 496.5 KB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Town Text	Flat Type Text	Median Rent Text
(Null)0.0% 2020-Q12.5% 2005-Q21.3% 2005-Q31.3% 2005-Q41.3%	(Null)0.0% BISHAN2.2% YISHUN2.2% GEYLANG2.2% HOUGANG2.2%	(Null)0.0% 3-RM16.7% 4-RM16.7% EXEC16.7% 1-RM16.7%	(Null)6.7% 20003.6% - 6.9% na 6.4% na 3.5%
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	1-RM	na
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	2-RM	na
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	3-RM	800
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	4-RM	950
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	5-RM	-
2005-Q2	ANG MO KIO	EXEC	na
2005-Q2	BEDOK	1-RM	na
2005-Q2	BEDOK	2-RM	na
2005-Q2	BEDOK	3-RM	800
2005-Q2	BEDOK	4-RM	900

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Town	town	Text	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
Median Rent	median_rent	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_23000a00c52996c55106084ed0339566"
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. (2015). Median Rent By Town And Flat Type (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved February 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_23000a00c52996c55106084ed0339566/view

About this dataset

Contact

quek_hong_kuen@hdb.gov.sg

Created on

28 Oct 2015

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)