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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (All Ethnic Groups) (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: 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/17441

Last updated 4 days ago (5 Sep 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeTypeofDwellingandEthnicGroupAllEthnicGroupsCensusofPopulation2020.csv (39 rows, 3.6 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
[Total] (HDB Dwellings) Total
Numeric
[Total] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/
Numeric
[Total] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
[Total] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
[Total] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats
Numeric
(Total) Condominium and Other Apartments
Numeric
(Total) Landed Properties
Numeric
(Total) Others
Text
(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)5.1%
Total3596284281432512844148488712117429892555409482356405371
English17352421184781389021519924697565241313762981720182145
English Only22942912994544631838647023600736254836588348
English & Mandarin973515639983911170019259592301260232556994711505
English & Chinese Dialect125507781472037103922702338694278871939875
English & Malay23377921205519274332078433775237149236686114
English & Tamil880597534333561206830326295938581411322
English & Other Indian Language449492387213431271005310558178063272-
English & Other Language4000425436526479311402871611997249180
Mandarin1/107517290783122741161494434915288681119370456782293
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3f87480008efa1a330e571a28ea187e0"
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 Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (All Ethnic Groups) (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3f87480008efa1a330e571a28ea187e0/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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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)