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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (Indians) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jun 2025, 19:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17444

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeTypeofDwellingandEthnicGroupIndiansCensusofPopulation2020.csv (15 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
(Indians) Total
Numeric
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) Total
Numeric
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/
Numeric
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats
Numeric
(Indians) Condominium and Other Apartments
Numeric
(Indians) Landed Properties
Numeric
(Indians) 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)0.0%
(Null)33.3%
Total3276812616061405148658106597923005096714909198
English1/19414514411165332152457536585193739012510134
English Only296911897910122590701983587551311546
English & Malay2678523111192433339117873820201654-
English & Tamil872687473632841197930098293758543396722
English & Other Indian Language4333822867134302097199994173913080-
Malay1/19706191643058392076804506280262-
Malay & English14429139671836224762293654237225-
Indian Languages11288397561443322789412582908113161209765
Tamil1/896808136742312019333950229936563172128

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Indians) TotalIndians_TotalNumericNumber-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) TotalIndians_HDBDwellings_TotalNumericNumber-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/Indians_HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats3NumericNumber-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room FlatsIndians_HDBDwellings_3_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room FlatsIndians_HDBDwellings_4_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive FlatsIndians_HDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlatsNumericNumber-
(Indians) Condominium and Other ApartmentsIndians_CondominiumandOtherApartmentsNumericNumber-
(Indians) Landed PropertiesIndians_LandedPropertiesNumericNumber-
(Indians) OthersIndians_OthersTextNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bebe00e6722f9f4f8f783c970346294c"
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 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (Indians) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bebe00e6722f9f4f8f783c970346294c/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)