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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 (Malays) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Sep 2025, 21:01 SGT

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/17443

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeTypeofDwellingandEthnicGroupMalaysCensusofPopulation2020.csv (8 rows, 921 B)

Number
Text
(Malays) Total
Numeric
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) Total
Numeric
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/
Numeric
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats
Numeric
(Malays) Condominium and Other Apartments
Numeric
(Malays) Landed Properties
Numeric
(Malays) 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)25.0%
Total4966594795635655189241198324135447129234058115
English1/193870180810167662899372476625769939306556
English Only94168164623176731322642975277-
English & Malay180932170129159482683268339590118147259956
Malay1/301445297546395405989812550972600285498758
Malay Only7281972373128601906028522119313378622
Malay & English22767422422726509404619672960528251789436
Other Languages2/134412072463503402711306-

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) TotalMalays_HDBDwellings_TotalNumericNumber-
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/Malays_HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats3NumericNumber-
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room FlatsMalays_HDBDwellings_3_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room FlatsMalays_HDBDwellings_4_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive FlatsMalays_HDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlatsNumericNumber-
(Malays) Condominium and Other ApartmentsMalays_CondominiumandOtherApartmentsNumericNumber-
(Malays) Landed PropertiesMalays_LandedPropertiesNumericNumber-
(Malays) OthersMalays_OthersTextNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_725943a2d897bb7044d22eb796015d6d"
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 Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_725943a2d897bb7044d22eb796015d6d/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)