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Economy

Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Type of Dwelling and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (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: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2015' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8604

Last updated 6 days ago (3 Sep 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyTypeofDwellingandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (9 rows, 1.2 KB)

Thousands
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Total
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Teochew
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Text
Indian Languages- Total
Numeric
Indian Languages- Tamil
Numeric
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages
Text
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)11.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.1%
(Null)11.1%
Total3530.513031231.9430.3205.386.5111.227.4378.7154.3117.137.332.4
HDB Dwellings1/2898892.41088.7384187.87994.323373.7136.1110.325.823
1-And 2-Room Flats2/105.216.422.918.411.42.24.50.3416.460.40.1
3-Room Flats503.8100.2192.410350.420.327.15.170.532.526.85.85.2
4-Room Flats1244.2314.9523.5168.985.536.736.510.1168.157.546.311.211.3
5-Room & Executive Flats1043.1459.3349.993.740.419.726.27.49439.731.38.56.5
Condominiums And Other Apartments407.7261.892.926.68.43.312.42.53.814.84.610.27.8
Landed Properties217.614746.618.48.34.14.41.61.12.91.71.31.6
Others7.21.83.61.30.80.10.10.3na0.40.4nana
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dataset_id = "d_792299f2666585112109d28309a1a393"
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response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Type of Dwelling and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_792299f2666585112109d28309a1a393/view

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Created on

12 Jan 2024

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