Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Type of Dwelling and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015)
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Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 9 records. Fields include Thousands, Total, English, Mandarin (14 columns in total). Last updated 2026-09-03.
Description
General Household Survey 2015 table from the Singapore Department of Statistics cross-tabulating resident population aged five and over by dwelling type and language most frequently spoken at home, in thousands. Sociolinguistics and housing researchers study home-language patterns across HDB and private housing with noted exclusions for non-speaking persons and certain household types.
Official description
Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2015 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2015' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information). Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8604
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
Data
| Thousands | Total | English | Mandarin | Chinese Dialects- Total | Chinese Dialects- Hokkien | Chinese Dialects- Teochew | Chinese Dialects- Cantonese | Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects | Malay | Indian Languages- Total | Indian Languages- Tamil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 3530.500000 | 1303.000000 | 1231.900000 | 430.300000 | 205.300000 | 86.500000 | 111.200000 | 27.400000 | 378.7 | 154.300000 | 117.100000 |
| HDB Dwellings1/ | 2898.000000 | 892.400000 | 1088.700000 | 384.000000 | 187.800000 | 79.000000 | 94.300000 | 23.000000 | 373.7 | 136.100000 | 110.300000 |
| 1-And 2-Room Flats2/ | 105.200000 | 16.400000 | 22.900000 | 18.400000 | 11.400000 | 2.200000 | 4.500000 | 0.300000 | 41 | 6.400000 | 6.000000 |
| 3-Room Flats | 503.800000 | 100.200000 | 192.400000 | 103.000000 | 50.400000 | 20.300000 | 27.100000 | 5.100000 | 70.5 | 32.500000 | 26.800000 |
| 4-Room Flats | 1244.200000 | 314.900000 | 523.500000 | 168.900000 | 85.500000 | 36.700000 | 36.500000 | 10.100000 | 168.1 | 57.500000 | 46.300000 |
| 5-Room & Executive Flats | 1043.100000 | 459.300000 | 349.900000 | 93.700000 | 40.400000 | 19.700000 | 26.200000 | 7.400000 | 94 | 39.700000 | 31.300000 |
| Condominiums And Other Apartments | 407.700000 | 261.800000 | 92.900000 | 26.600000 | 8.400000 | 3.300000 | 12.400000 | 2.500000 | 3.8 | 14.800000 | 4.600000 |
| Landed Properties | 217.600000 | 147.000000 | 46.600000 | 18.400000 | 8.300000 | 4.100000 | 4.400000 | 1.600000 | 1.1 | 2.900000 | 1.700000 |
| Others | 7.200000 | 1.800000 | 3.600000 | 1.300000 | 0.800000 | 0.100000 | 0.100000 | 0.300000 | na | 0.400000 | 0.400000 |
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Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Thousands | Text | No |
| Total | Numeric | No |
| English | Numeric | No |
| Mandarin | Numeric | No |
| Chinese Dialects- Total | Numeric | No |
| Chinese Dialects- Hokkien | Numeric | No |
| Chinese Dialects- Teochew | Numeric | No |
| Chinese Dialects- Cantonese | Numeric | No |
| Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects | Numeric | No |
| Malay | Text | No |
| Indian Languages- Total | Numeric | No |
| Indian Languages- Tamil | Numeric | No |
| Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages | Text | No |
| Others | Text | No |