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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area of Residence and Religion (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 07 Jun 2025, 22:00 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: Planning areas refer to areas demarcated in the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s Master Plan 2019.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17592

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaofResidenceandReligionCensusofPopulation2020.csv (32 rows, 2.8 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
No Religion
Numeric
Buddhism
Numeric
Taoism1/
Numeric
Islam
Numeric
Hinduism
Numeric
Sikhism
Text
(Christianity) Catholic
Numeric
(Christianity) Other Christians
Numeric
Other Religions
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total34590936925281074159303960539251172963120512426814116749827
Ang Mo Kio1436163014149544172791095266613421214316339214
Bedok238734471936992718890406601032110582087429299511
Bishan768001924721950530433823217146860714759189
Bukit Batok139173263434159112344230599228377812517726380
Bukit Merah128585299344222411813122486308656816716675560
Bukit Panjang120112229373769313519203255239365707712715242
Bukit Timah62963177331110330157362063227795019824312
Choa Chu Kang167886298265166217284348259963319860515082320
Clementi793001841723091639990333398356560812695303

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
No ReligionNoReligionNumericNumber-
BuddhismBuddhismNumericNumber-
Taoism1/Taoism1NumericNumber-
IslamIslamNumericNumber-
HinduismHinduismNumericNumber-
SikhismSikhismTextNumber-
(Christianity) CatholicChristianity_CatholicNumericNumber-
(Christianity) Other ChristiansChristianity_OtherChristiansNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a58564fbed922609a0f79af96069dd9b"
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 Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area of Residence and Religion (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a58564fbed922609a0f79af96069dd9b/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)