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Economy

Resident Households by Monthly Household Income from Work and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2015)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 30/06/2026

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Notes: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.Data on income from work have been updated to include Additional MediSave Contributions from employers with the release of the Key Household Income Trends 2025 report in February 2026. For more information, you may refer to the Technical Note on Household Income (https://go.gov.sg/khit2025-tech-note) which explains the concepts and components of our household income coverage.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8608

Last updated 6 days ago (3 Sep 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdIncomefromWorkandPredominantHouseholdLanguageGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (24 rows, 2.5 KB)

Thousands
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Total
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Hokkien
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Teochew
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Cantonese
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Other Chinese Dialects
Text
Malay
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Total
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Tamil
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Other Indian Languages
Text
Others
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)4.2%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)4.2%
(Null)12.5%
Total1059.2388.2363139.964.328.238.39.1106.850.937.713.210.4
No Working Person63.217.714.423105.161.95.72.21.80.40.2
Below 1,000153.64.34.22.10.90.90.22.60.30.20.10.1
1,000 - 1,49924.24.27.17.43.721.10.54.50.90.60.2-
1,500 - 1,99925.54.17.67.341.31.70.35.31.21.1-0.1
2,000 - 2,49929.9610.17.53.71.81.50.451.31.20.1-
2,500 - 2,99927.95.811.252.31.41.20.14.61.110.10.1
3,000 - 3,49928.76.99.55.72.81.51.20.151.41.20.20.1
3,500 - 3,99929.87.610.94.82.30.91.40.25.11.41.30.1-
4,000 - 4,49934.58.313.65.52.91.11.10.35.21.91.60.30.1
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dataset_id = "d_bda1128c4dff7e8a4ecf0109dbaca27a"
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. (2026). Resident Households by Monthly Household Income from Work and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2015) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bda1128c4dff7e8a4ecf0109dbaca27a/view

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Created on

03 Jul 2026

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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)