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Sample Household Survey: HDB Households, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

HDB Households by Flat Type

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HDB Households by Flat Type

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:02 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

No of households by Flat type

Data explorer

HDBHouseholdsbyFlatType.csv (18 rows, 378 B)

SHS Year Year (YYYY)	Flat Type Text	No. of Households Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	1-room	18562
2008	2-room	28614
2008	3-room	213857
2008	4-room	331739
2008	5-room	206799
2008	Executive	66455
2013	1-room	24573
2013	2-room	34204
2013	3-room	216163
2013	4-room	354526

Column legend

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

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_db69c88a1ff684356b8b38dc0e9b432c"
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 Households by Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_db69c88a1ff684356b8b38dc0e9b432c/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

27 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)