Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area and Religion (General Household Survey 2015)

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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area and Religion (General Household Survey 2015)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

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

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8614

Last updated 5 days ago (4 Sep 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaandReligionGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (30 rows, 2.4 KB)

Thousands Text	Total Numeric	No Religion Numeric	Buddhism Numeric	Taoism1/ Numeric	Islam Numeric	Hinduism Numeric	Sikhism Numeric	Christianity- Catholic Numeric	Christianity- Other Christians Numeric	Other Religions 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%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total	3275.9	604.5	1087.3	326.4	459.8	162.5	11.5	220.9	395.2	7.9
Ang Mo Kio	157.2	26.9	56.2	22.6	13.9	6	0.2	11.7	19.3	0.3
Bedok	235.9	37.3	70.7	21.7	42.7	9.7	1.1	20	31.9	0.9
Bishan	76.3	16.9	21.2	7.8	2.8	4.3	0.1	9.5	13.6	0
Bukit Batok	120.1	20.7	40.6	12.3	15.2	6.7	0.2	7.8	16.2	0.3
Bukit Merah	132.5	26.3	50.5	13.2	11.3	5.1	0.9	8.3	16.3	0.5
Bukit Panjang	119.6	21	41.7	16	19.5	3.7	0.2	4.6	12.7	0.1
Bukit Timah	59.1	15	10.3	3.4	0.7	1.6	0	8.2	19.8	0.1
Choa Chu Kang	149.3	28.1	47.7	16.6	26.1	8.6	0	8.9	13.1	0.2
Clementi	72.7	16.3	23.5	5.3	8.2	2.1	0.1	4.1	12.9	0.2

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
No Religion	NoReligion	Numeric	Thousands	-
Buddhism	Buddhism	Numeric	Thousands	-
Taoism1/	Taoism1	Numeric	Thousands	-
Islam	Islam	Numeric	Thousands	-
Hinduism	Hinduism	Numeric	Thousands	-
Sikhism	Sikhism	Numeric	Thousands	-
Christianity- Catholic	Christianity_Catholic	Numeric	Thousands	-
Christianity- Other Christians	Christianity_OtherChristians	Numeric	Thousands	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_609f4027e7fdc33251db12f4d3f38d4f"
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 15 Years and Over by Planning Area and Religion (General Household Survey 2015) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_609f4027e7fdc33251db12f4d3f38d4f/view

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