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Economy

Resident Households by Household Structure and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17519

Last updated 3 days ago (6 Sep 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdStructureandPredominantHouseholdLanguageCensusofPopulation2020.csv (10 rows, 1.4 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
Text
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)10.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total11228764509934147821029545071519404271175719105459394793116883109210
No Family Nucleus517431442716772138406948251733441032469515781428150431
One Family Nucleus99566941608836014585731420121628422962447289946353922772876658367
One Generation20909479482708123461317764644991581242160615828451413142298
Two Generations7107013141622531134780522671923912881301464039259052034855585677
Three or More Generations75874224443622033131577597923216984736592866793392
Two Family Nuclei724611971336295334417355967982151036423541868485391
One or Two Generations 1682945387637105551924123363288265154210967
Three or More Generations 55631151752865822891216355565153748217031326376324
Three or More Family Nuclei300376515703920712-4531551451021
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d37245f1549906f69859d436304a7a5a"
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 Households by Household Structure and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d37245f1549906f69859d436304a7a5a/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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