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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Number of Employed Persons in Household (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jul 2025, 22:01 SGT

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

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17500

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandNumberofEmployedPersonsinHouseholdCensusofPopulation2020.csv (20 rows, 1.9 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
No Employed Person
Numeric
1 Employed Person
Numeric
2 Employed Persons
Numeric
3 Employed Persons
Numeric
4 Employed Persons
Numeric
5 or More Employed Persons
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%
Total13725591824454619414996391531875836516983
Married Couple-Based Households883364665512039524206031266225166613971
Household Reference Person Aged Below 35 Years75939787133925611639111112620
No Children in Household331352423757264411747621328
With Child(ren) in Household428045459635296762165491292
Household Reference Person Aged 35 - 49 Years3028963038723311976182185460182036
No Children in Household 51265614106403592025431020528
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years 197190192349680130233115382869947
With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years345423788344216543241779146
With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years and Over198991223668981145331350415

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
No Employed PersonNoEmployedPersonNumericNumber-
1 Employed Person1EmployedPersonNumericNumber-
2 Employed Persons2EmployedPersonsNumericNumber-
3 Employed Persons3EmployedPersonsNumericNumber-
4 Employed Persons4EmployedPersonsNumericNumber-
5 or More Employed Persons5orMoreEmployedPersonsNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d7408645790903711d3df9891d2c3f85"
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 Households by Household Living Arrangement and Number of Employed Persons in Household (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d7408645790903711d3df9891d2c3f85/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)