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HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Flat Type

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HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Flat Type

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:00 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

No of persons by Flat type

Data explorer

HDBResidentPopulationAged15YearsandAbovebyFlatType.csv (18 rows, 373 B)

SHS Year Year (YYYY)	Flat Type Text	No. of Persons Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	1-room	33000
2008	2-room	57000
2008	3-room	498000
2008	4-room	988000
2008	5-room	615000
2008	Executive	211000
2013	1-room	43000
2013	2-room	69000
2013	3-room	518000
2013	4-room	1050000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
SHS Year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
No. of Persons	number	Numeric	No. of Persons	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cb55223f678fb7702181fc95c587e03f"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cb55223f678fb7702181fc95c587e03f/view

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Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)