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Housing

Role and Relationship of HDB Resident Population with Owner or Registered Tenant

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Data is derived from the Sample Household Survey (SHS) which is conducted once every 5 years. HDB resident population refers to Singapore citizens and Singapore permanent residents (SPRs) residing in HDB flats. They include owners/co-owners, HDB rental tenants and occupiers.

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

RoleandRelationshipofHDBResidentPopulationwithOwnerorRegisteredTenant.csv (24 rows, 896 B)

SHS year
Year (YYYY)
Role
Text
Relationship
Text
Percentage
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013OwnerOwner27.9
2013Registered TenantRegistered Tenant1.6
2013Co-ownerSpouse19.6
2013Co-ownerChildren/children-in-law1.7
2013Co-ownerParents/parents-in-law0.8
2013Co-ownerSibling/sibling-in-law0.6
2013OccupierSpouse2.1
2013OccupierChildren/children-in-law38.5
2013OccupierParents/parents-in-law3.4
2013OccupierSibling/sibling-in-law1.4
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_307210f9b1557b86752229b499046726"
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. (2021). Role and Relationship of HDB Resident Population with Owner or Registered Tenant (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_307210f9b1557b86752229b499046726/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

25 Oct 2021

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)