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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2010)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 24/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

Footnotes: Notes:Planning areas refer to areas demarcated in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2008.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/8625

Last updated 22 days ago (18 Aug 2026)

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2010.csv (37 rows, 2.6 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
Tamil
Text
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)2.7%
(Null)5.4%
(Null)5.4%
Total3399054109744312115054870314144751106674033437600
Ang Mo Kio15940846338611433277110352607912021522
Bedok26410896675803513728038903495335752372
Bishan8593344620238411070932252045540954
Bukit Batok13365941029498891503117785536824602096
Bukit Merah1335833740941195367098624699510571593
Bukit Panjang12142733440512211423917673275810391056
Bukit Timah62191434391154947983043663121422
Changi193075034215051414827na
Choa Chu Kang16592646003674341776424533576822782146
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c3ed3269adea97f53092d70c4d6d9682"
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. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Planning Area and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2010) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c3ed3269adea97f53092d70c4d6d9682/view

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Created on

24 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)