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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jul 2025, 22:01 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 household reference persons who were not employed.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17490

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandOccupationofHouseholdReferencePersonCensusofPopulation2020.csv (20 rows, 2.5 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/ 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%	(Null)0.0%
Total	1062486	224734	237214	192245	68591	103977	43195	108359	73705	10467
Married Couple-Based Households	724659	171501	161646	129007	31887	61267	34667	87356	39045	8282
Household Reference Person Aged Below 35 Years	72646	10995	26487	18485	2967	6283	1149	3513	1048	1719
No Children in Household	31976	5011	14015	7677	1181	2042	329	744	235	740
With Child(ren) in Household	40671	5983	12472	10808	1786	4241	820	2769	812	979
Household Reference Person Aged 35 - 49 Years	288067	83179	87663	57747	8982	16513	8068	18007	3875	4032
No Children in Household	48318	12187	15214	10514	1749	3343	1308	2610	877	515
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years	188321	55328	60905	37159	5136	9432	4791	10725	1951	2894
With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years	32737	10817	8057	6229	1060	2147	1104	2326	533	463
With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years and Over	18690	4847	3487	3845	1037	1590	865	2345	514	160

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_965258e5c8a4ff10dbd25b288e80ce31"
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 Household Living Arrangement and Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_965258e5c8a4ff10dbd25b288e80ce31/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)