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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)

Description

This Census of Population 2020 table profiles Chinese residents aged five and over by the languages most and second-most frequently spoken at home and type of dwelling. Housing categories include HDB flat sizes, condominiums, landed properties and others. It supports analysis of language use across Singapore housing segments, subject to the stated household exclusions.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2020 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17442

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Chinese) Total [Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) Total [Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/ [Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats [Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats [Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats (Chinese) Condominium and Other Apartments (Chinese) Landed Properties (Chinese) Others
Total 2658378.000000 1998198.000000 54793.000000 331648.000000 875560.000000 736198.000000 448858.000000 206509.000000 4813
English1/ 1266460.000000 809883.000000 13610.000000 92175.000000 319215.000000 384883.000000 307278.000000 147475.000000 1824
English Only 161213.000000 87540.000000 2107.000000 10811.000000 31141.000000 43481.000000 44658.000000 28761.000000 254
English & Mandarin 955664.000000 629004.000000 8655.000000 68402.000000 255152.000000 296795.000000 227908.000000 97332.000000 1420
English & Chinese Dialect 124248.000000 77201.000000 2021.000000 10142.000000 26771.000000 38266.000000 27698.000000 19274.000000 75
English & Malay 16499.000000 11004.000000 632.000000 1862.000000 4058.000000 4452.000000 3875.000000 1562.000000 58
Mandarin1/ 1069450.000000 902515.000000 22282.000000 159756.000000 432762.000000 287715.000000 119134.000000 45508.000000 2293
Mandarin Only 238036.000000 206591.000000 6863.000000 44629.000000 98464.000000 56636.000000 23525.000000 7311.000000 609
Mandarin & English 527066.000000 421744.000000 6623.000000 57989.000000 200372.000000 156760.000000 78211.000000 26146.000000 965
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect 300856.000000 271598.000000 8709.000000 56380.000000 132986.000000 73523.000000 16734.000000 11804.000000 719
Chinese Dialects 312671.000000 278676.000000 18239.000000 78145.000000 120294.000000 61998.000000 20027.000000 13288.000000 679
Hokkien1/ 156895.000000 143065.000000 10636.000000 39954.000000 63805.000000 28670.000000 7535.000000 5956.000000 339
Hokkien Only 46770.000000 43456.000000 4842.000000 13935.000000 17509.000000 7170.000000 1691.000000 1557.000000 66
Hokkien & English 15392.000000 12485.000000 499.000000 3003.000000 5151.000000 3832.000000 1772.000000 1080.000000 55
Hokkien & Mandarin 88840.000000 81782.000000 4839.000000 21439.000000 39017.000000 16487.000000 3671.000000 3168.000000 218
Teochew1/ 59348.000000 53213.000000 2923.000000 15034.000000 23601.000000 11655.000000 2929.000000 3119.000000 86
Teochew Only 18571.000000 17056.000000 1222.000000 5219.000000 7592.000000 3023.000000 736.000000 741.000000 37
Teochew & English 8061.000000 6483.000000 128.000000 1346.000000 3191.000000 1818.000000 737.000000 829.000000 12
Teochew & Mandarin 29358.000000 26556.000000 1372.000000 7463.000000 11620.000000 6101.000000 1341.000000 1424.000000 37
Cantonese1/ 79092.000000 67418.000000 4062.000000 19054.000000 26546.000000 17756.000000 8252.000000 3306.000000 116
Cantonese Only 21396.000000 19328.000000 1880.000000 6256.000000 6978.000000 4214.000000 1320.000000 645.000000 104
Cantonese & English 19475.000000 13763.000000 470.000000 2593.000000 5223.000000 5476.000000 4391.000000 1321.000000 -
Cantonese & Mandarin 35434.000000 31762.000000 1475.000000 9514.000000 13175.000000 7599.000000 2431.000000 1229.000000 12
Other Chinese Dialects1/ 17336.000000 14981.000000 618.000000 4104.000000 6342.000000 3917.000000 1310.000000 907.000000 139
Other Chinese Dialect & Mandarin 9657.000000 8571.000000 272.000000 2155.000000 3894.000000 2249.000000 637.000000 406.000000 43

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Chinese) Total Numeric No
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) Total Numeric No
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/ Numeric No
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats Numeric No
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats Numeric No
[Chinese] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats Numeric No
(Chinese) Condominium and Other Apartments Numeric No
(Chinese) Landed Properties Numeric No
(Chinese) Others Text No