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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 (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Aug 2025, 20:00 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/17442

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeTypeofDwellingandEthnicGroupChineseCensusofPopulation2020.csv (26 rows, 2.5 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) Total
Numeric
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/
Numeric
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats
Numeric
(Chinese) Condominium and Other Apartments
Numeric
(Chinese) Landed Properties
Numeric
(Chinese) 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)3.8%
Total26583781998198547933316488755607361984488582065094813
English1/126646080988313610921753192153848833072781474751824
English Only1612138754021071081131141434814465828761254
English & Mandarin955664629004865568402255152296795227908973321420
English & Chinese Dialect124248772012021101422677138266276981927475
English & Malay16499110046321862405844523875156258
Mandarin1/106945090251522282159756432762287715119134455082293
Mandarin Only2380362065916863446299846456636235257311609
Mandarin & English5270664217446623579892003721567607821126146965
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect300856271598870956380132986735231673411804719

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) TotalChinese_HDBDwellings_TotalNumericNumber-
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/Chinese_HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats3NumericNumber-
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room FlatsChinese_HDBDwellings_3_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room FlatsChinese_HDBDwellings_4_RoomFlatsNumericNumber-
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive FlatsChinese_HDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlatsNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Condominium and Other ApartmentsChinese_CondominiumandOtherApartmentsNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Landed PropertiesChinese_LandedPropertiesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) OthersChinese_OthersTextNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c962cc79137915a91b14a1f1a1951099"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

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 (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c962cc79137915a91b14a1f1a1951099/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)