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

Last updated: 21 May 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 30/03/2016

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 For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/publications-and-methodology).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8884

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyTypeofDwellingandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeCensusofPopulation2000.csv (12 rows, 1.7 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Total
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Hokkien
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Teochew
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Cantonese
Numeric
(Chinese Dialects) Other Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Total
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Tamil
Numeric
(Indian Languages) Other Indian Languages
Numeric
Others
Numeric
(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)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total288755266508710105396872723295831415681637035241840654911087791015198627228
HDB Dwellings^25444014742819270106334073088981300951474134700140106710339987139162615236
1- And 2-Room Flats#7327338511536830852161925190798814821731657305329401156
3-Room Flats63609860780222395215202101305432485501515635106238298792540244771604
4-Room Flats1058875152149419190261294137109540835127218830181706422903570865822247
5-Room And Executive Flats7566332457812655831239425353227218322811091095093250542047345811179
Condominiums And Other Apartments166153976163907221061680231279391174127604172172524471472
Landed Properties167536919423975329717125897552638131952677294418601084503
Bungalows28431176785250435220561053865378393519254265239
Semi-Detached Bungalows599383251414972107154635244724741159683900532368154

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
EnglishEnglishNumericNumber-
MandarinMandarinNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) TotalChineseDialects_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) HokkienChineseDialects_HokkienNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) TeochewChineseDialects_TeochewNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) CantoneseChineseDialects_CantoneseNumericNumber-
(Chinese Dialects) Other Chinese DialectsChineseDialects_OtherChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
MalayMalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cfc06ffb6ba5ef2f124dbfd57bae744d"
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 Type of Dwelling and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cfc06ffb6ba5ef2f124dbfd57bae744d/view

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26 Oct 2024

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