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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2010)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

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 'Singapore Census of Population 2010, Statistical Release 1: Demographic Characteristics, Education, Language and Religion' (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/5981

Last updated 24 days ago (16 Aug 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeResidentialStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2010.csv (13 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Total
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Males
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Females
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Total
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Males
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Females
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%
Total339905416709821728072294110014676981473402457955203285254670
English10974435500945473499657224867894789331317216330568416
Mandarin1211505587455624049103396351557651838717754171879105662
Chinese Dialects487031233827253204454717220494234223323141333318981
Hokkien2388431200011188422286271159201127071021540816135
Teochew94302442775002691734433134842025699641605
Cantonese121136551786595910602548803572221511163758736
Other Chinese Dialects327501437218378283311245815873441919142505
Malay41447520654820792639980820221919758814667432910338
Indian Languages1510007499476006823244014342181686763485133825
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dataset_id = "d_801985f94e3ad6c4b395fc03fb26e3b4"
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 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Residential Status and Sex (Census of Population 2010) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_801985f94e3ad6c4b395fc03fb26e3b4/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)