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Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 07 Jun 2025, 19:01 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, households comprising only unrelated persons and households with household reference persons who were not employed. 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/17525

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandOccupationofHouseholdReferencePersonCensusofPopulation2020.csv (13 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number Text	Total Numeric	Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers Numeric	Professionals Numeric	Associate Professionals & Technicians Numeric	Clerical Support Workers Numeric	Service & Sales Workers Numeric	Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers Numeric	Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers Numeric	Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers Numeric	Others1/ 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)0.0%	(Null)15.4%
Total	900308	197930	194746	162261	54470	85998	38999	98708	57668	9527
English	374145	108618	106666	70160	20748	25992	7174	21758	7539	5491
Mandarin	339193	67583	61831	58343	18270	34533	22114	48827	24618	3073
Chinese Dialects	61655	7931	7623	7791	5527	8492	3381	9179	11300	432
Hokkien	30699	2857	2509	3612	2558	4521	1660	5737	6914	330
Teochew	10732	1488	1251	1183	1051	1594	589	1674	1830	72
Cantonese	16861	3153	3177	2382	1432	1992	934	1520	2241	30
Other Chinese Dialects	3364	433	687	613	486	385	197	248	315	-
Malay	82741	2904	5507	18471	7968	13235	5340	16725	12195	396
Indian Languages	34162	8251	9396	6167	1871	3435	951	2074	1883	135

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Number	-
Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers	Legislators_SeniorOfficialsandManagers	Numeric	Number	-
Professionals	Professionals	Numeric	Number	-
Associate Professionals & Technicians	AssociateProfessionalsandTechnicians	Numeric	Number	-
Clerical Support Workers	ClericalSupportWorkers	Numeric	Number	-
Service & Sales Workers	ServiceandSalesWorkers	Numeric	Number	-
Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers	CraftsmenandRelatedTradesWorkers	Numeric	Number	-
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers	PlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblers	Numeric	Number	-
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers	Cleaners_LabourersandRelatedWorkers	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_86816f005ff5c2d072e26cd704ccc69e"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_86816f005ff5c2d072e26cd704ccc69e/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)