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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: 05 Oct 2025, 21:01 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%
Total	327681	261606	14051	48658	106597	92300	50967	14909	198
English1/	194145	144111	6533	21524	57536	58519	37390	12510	134
English Only	29691	18979	1012	2590	7019	8358	7551	3115	46
English & Malay	26785	23111	1924	3333	9117	8738	2020	1654	-
English & Tamil	87268	74736	3284	11979	30098	29375	8543	3967	22
English & Other Indian Language	43338	22867	134	3020	9719	9994	17391	3080	-
Malay1/	19706	19164	3058	3920	7680	4506	280	262	-
Malay & English	14429	13967	1836	2247	6229	3654	237	225	-
Indian Languages	112883	97561	4433	22789	41258	29081	13161	2097	65
Tamil1/	89680	81367	4231	20193	33950	22993	6563	1721	28

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
(Indians) Total	Indians_Total	Numeric	Number	-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) Total	Indians_HDBDwellings_Total	Numeric	Number	-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/	Indians_HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats3	Numeric	Number	-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats	Indians_HDBDwellings_3_RoomFlats	Numeric	Number	-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats	Indians_HDBDwellings_4_RoomFlats	Numeric	Number	-
[Indians] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats	Indians_HDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlats	Numeric	Number	-
(Indians) Condominium and Other Apartments	Indians_CondominiumandOtherApartments	Numeric	Number	-
(Indians) Landed Properties	Indians_LandedProperties	Numeric	Number	-
(Indians) Others	Indians_Others	Text	Number	-

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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 October 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bebe00e6722f9f4f8f783c970346294c/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)