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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Sep 2025, 21:01 SGT

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: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17523

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandAgeGroupofHouseholdReferencePersonCensusofPopulation2020.csv (13 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Below 25 Years
Text
25 - 29 Years
Numeric
30 - 34 Years
Numeric
35 - 39 Years
Numeric
40 - 44 Years
Numeric
45 - 49 Years
Numeric
50 - 54 Years
Numeric
55 - 59 Years
Numeric
60 - 64 Years
Numeric
65 - 69 Years
Numeric
70 - 74 Years
Numeric
75 Years & Over
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)15.4%
(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%
Total1122876377123685735011083641250591438001436231500021331881007976619850889
English45099315441132137057523356229565635577765270447771319251946811160
Mandarin4147821181776725278378424219850278545496040853556410992490515721
Chinese Dialects10295474466100026114424831797751231713725157321495919555
Hokkien507154420226089619193736491363997306868874448907
Teochew19404-26582796671622155222222168315833144336
Cantonese2711729198489130315602504273328723451335335715054
Other Chinese Dialects5719-401931322784555778237995336291258
Malay1054597823453798210266825510493137301843914148962950423238
Indian Languages394791374961578408260767109637950123517225616711165

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
Below 25 YearsBelow25YearsTextNumber-
25 - 29 Years25_29YearsNumericNumber-
30 - 34 Years30_34YearsNumericNumber-
35 - 39 Years35_39YearsNumericNumber-
40 - 44 Years40_44YearsNumericNumber-
45 - 49 Years45_49YearsNumericNumber-
50 - 54 Years50_54YearsNumericNumber-
55 - 59 Years55_59YearsNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_54448abe7c1dd109ce6ccfad14bf47b3"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_54448abe7c1dd109ce6ccfad14bf47b3/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)