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Housing

Average and Median Age of HDB Resident Population by Flat Type

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018Updated 7 months ago

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Average age by Flat type

Data explorer

AverageandMedianAgeofHDBResidentPopulationbyFlatType.csv (21 rows, 456 B)

Shs year Year (YYYY)	Flat type Text	Average age Numeric	Median age Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	1-room	55.9	58
2008	2-room	45.3	48
2008	3-room	42	44
2008	4-room	36.1	36
2008	5-room	34.3	35
2008	Executive	33.2	34
2008	All	36.9	37
2013	1-room	49.9	55
2013	2-room	40.5	44
2013	3-room	42.7	45

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Shs year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Flat type	flat_type	Text	-	-
Average age	average_age	Numeric	years old	-
Median age	median_age	Numeric	years old	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_26bcaadd552d0b77bb13ea9c671bac6b"
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). Average and Median Age of HDB Resident Population by Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_26bcaadd552d0b77bb13ea9c671bac6b/view

About this dataset

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Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

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