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Economy

Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 03 Aug 2025, 22:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Notes:Planning areas refer to areas demarcated in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2014.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/8331

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (30 rows, 2 KB)

Thousands
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
Tamil
Numeric
Other Indian Languages
Numeric
Others
Numeric
(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%
Total3530.513031231.9430.3378.7117.137.332.4
Ang Mo Kio164.45856.528.412.86.80.61.3
Bedok252.2107.670.430.4345.12.42.4
Bishan82.143.823.110.31.72.30.50.5
Bukit Batok128.244.649.913.712.64.91.21.4
Bukit Merah133.546.837.132.48.14.61.33.1
Bukit Panjang134.442.854.714.918.42.30.50.8
Bukit Timah65.547.311.35.20.30.20.21.1
Choa Chu Kang167.454.762.816.923.14.72.82.4
Clementi7529.223.611.66.61.90.31.7

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
TotalTotalNumericThousands-
EnglishEnglishNumericThousands-
MandarinMandarinNumericThousands-
Chinese DialectsChineseDialectsNumericThousands-
MalayMalayNumericThousands-
TamilTamilNumericThousands-
Other Indian LanguagesOtherIndianLanguagesNumericThousands-
OthersOthersNumericThousands-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_58c5248e96531fe39a9b2caee6ed19d8"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_58c5248e96531fe39a9b2caee6ed19d8/view

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Created on

12 Jan 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)