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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Mar 2026, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17520

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandPredominantHouseholdLanguageCensusofPopulation2020.csv (20 rows, 2.8 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Total 
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Hokkien
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Teochew
Text
(Chinese Dialects) Cantonese
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Other Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Total  
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Tamil
Numeric
(Indian Languages) 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)5.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total11228764509934147821029545071519404271175719105459394793116883109210
Married Couple-Based Households88336437638633031356905283071028115889242878852330792553675437829
Household Reference Person Aged Below 35 Years759394162222786483134726478888716921384308469
No Children in Household33135190041067130978-209222394539382157217
With Child(ren) in Household4280422618121151745675655649311531002151252
Household Reference Person Aged 35 - 49 Years30289615473210315938671195236220423221274154801124942314384
No Children in Household 5126523334202141768685108944323457136210073551129
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years 197190106673625721534332779991261322411047798930582141
With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years345421682512107207442611719268421461603543573
With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years and Over198997900826735813525143551909924650275542

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
EnglishEnglishNumericNumber-
MandarinMandarinNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) Total ChineseDialects_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) HokkienChineseDialects_HokkienNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) TeochewChineseDialects_TeochewTextNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) CantoneseChineseDialects_CantoneseNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) Other Chinese DialectsChineseDialects_OtherChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
MalayMalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_82e513896c44cc2af4eba6de6212ddc0"
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 Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 6, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_82e513896c44cc2af4eba6de6212ddc0/view

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Created on

22 Oct 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)