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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Head of Household (Census of Population 2010)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 22/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8589

Last updated 28 days ago (18 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandAgeGroupofHeadofHouseholdCensusofPopulation2010.csv (13 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Below 25 Years
Numeric
25 - 29 Years
Numeric
30 - 34 Years
Numeric
35 - 39 Years
Numeric
40 - 44 Years
Numeric
45 - 49 Years
Numeric
50 - 54 Years
Numeric
55 - 59 Years
Numeric
60 - 64 Years
Numeric
65 - 69 Years
Numeric
70 - 74 Years
Numeric
75 Years & Over
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%
Total9888232637246747361111633412977514836814783812499392644488983671942331
English3183057506702250774501050326523775053337693258511057068446572
Mandarin3504209129976276644068745741559585626749937325651531291986201
Chinese Dialects1558681821714467379421010913346166781970822577176461658424709
Hokkien749891096991868337749256790892210336116168619698610742
Teochew2982835216591125415172144295236204601374739075244
Cantonese40369225871765267029243463388750795309434743235992
Other Chinese Dialects1068116213448640742950917673105093413672731
Malay103650587367163479493136611911318483135588778400327533202
Indian Languages48669116154871871036280406057498835692660126312651613
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f8ea96297fcf6baf55fee5f38c72acaa"
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 Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Head of Household (Census of Population 2010) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f8ea96297fcf6baf55fee5f38c72acaa/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)