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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by DGP Zone and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 01/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

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

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9014

Last updated 18 days ago (22 Aug 2026)

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyDGPZoneandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2000.csv (34 rows, 2.4 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
Tamil
Numeric
Other Indian Languages
Numeric
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)2.9%
Total2887552665087101053968727240654991015198627228
Ang Mo Kio162871308856149651339125375840612163
Bedok2382496221873095526394504129901572693
Bukit Batok1158092317545157220861934043701344337
Bukit Merah12913523184372765311973567179734288
Bukit Panjang89614157553713018891147822453447155
Bishan8267933010241951780244952565394218
Bukit Timah5513433002122288141808393224338
Changi75117711015017410337na
Choa Chu Kang129281246085336422934233424213718102
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c4ed6ab54bc73259941436802e7b2e6f"
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 DGP Zone and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c4ed6ab54bc73259941436802e7b2e6f/view

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Created on

26 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)