10 Housing & Household Statistics in Singapore (2026)
Housing and household data tell you how Singaporeans actually live: how many households there are, how large they are, who lives alone, how many homes are owner-occupied, and what share of residents live in HDB, condo and landed homes.
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Resident households
1,487,100
Latest official count in 2025, up 21.4% from 2015.
Average household size
3.06
Latest official average in 2025, continuing the long-run downtrend.
Largest household type
2-person
354,200 households, or 23.8% of resident households in 2025.
Home ownership rate
90.8%
Latest official owner-occupied rate in 2024.
Residents in HDB
77.2%
1148000 resident households lived in HDB dwellings in 2025.
Living-alone share
16.1%
Up from 11.2% in 2014 to 236,200 resident households in 2024.
Top Stats
The clearest housing and household takeaways
If you only want the short version, these are the numbers worth keeping in your head before digging into the detail tables.
- • The number of resident households in Singapore rose from 1,225,300 in 2015 to 1,487,100 in 2025.
- • Average household size fell from 3.39 in 2015 to 3.06 in 2025.
- • Two-person households were the single largest household-size bucket in 2025.
- • The latest official home-ownership rate remained very high at 90.8% in 2024.
- • HDB dwellings still dominated the housing mix in 2025, accounting for 77.2% of resident households.
- • The sharpest living-arrangement shift over the last decade was the rise in people living alone, from 11.2% in 2014 to 16.1% in 2024.
Households
Resident households are still rising, even as households get smaller
That combination matters. More households can increase housing demand even when the average number of people per household is shrinking.
| Year | Resident households | Average household size |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,152,000 | 3.53 |
| 2013 | 1,174,500 | 3.47 |
| 2014 | 1,200,000 | 3.43 |
| 2015 | 1,225,300 | 3.39 |
| 2016 | 1,263,600 | 3.35 |
| 2017 | 1,289,900 | 3.30 |
| 2018 | 1,325,300 | 3.24 |
| 2019 | 1,372,400 | 3.16 |
| 2020 | 1,372,600 | 3.22 |
| 2021 | 1,390,600 | 3.15 |
| 2022 | 1,399,600 | 3.09 |
| 2023 | 1,425,100 | 3.11 |
| 2024 | 1,463,400 | 3.09 |
| 2025 | 1,487,100 | 3.06 |
Household Size
Two-person households are now the most common household form
In 2025, two-person households overtook all other household-size categories. The skew toward smaller households is visible across the whole distribution, with six-person-and-larger households down at just 6.1%.
The distribution is now concentrated in the middle: one-, two-, three- and four-person households account for the overwhelming majority of resident households. Larger multi-generational or bigger-family households still exist, but they are increasingly the minority.
| Household size | Households | Share of resident households |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | 247,900 | 16.7% |
| 2 people | 354,200 | 23.8% |
| 3 people | 335,800 | 22.6% |
| 4 people | 296,600 | 19.9% |
| 5 people | 161,600 | 10.9% |
| 6 or more | 91,000 | 6.1% |
Living Arrangement
The household mix is shifting away from the old default
The latest official living-arrangement series currently runs through 2024. On that basis, married couples with children still form the biggest category, but their share has dropped sharply over the last decade.
| Living arrangement | 2024 households | 2024 share | 2014 share | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Married couple-based with children | 681,900 | 46.6% | 55.0% | -8.4 ppt |
| Married couple-based without children | 253,900 | 17.4% | 15.8% | +1.6 ppt |
| Lone parent | 74,000 | 5.1% | 7.3% | -2.2 ppt |
| Living alone | 236,200 | 16.1% | 11.2% | +4.9 ppt |
| Others | 217,500 | 14.9% | 10.7% | +4.1 ppt |
Ownership
Home ownership remains extremely high by global standards
The latest official owner-occupied series is published through 2024. It shows a home-ownership rate of 90.8%, with only 124,000 resident households in rented accommodation.
The series is not perfectly smooth. The owner-occupied rate dipped in 2020 and 2021 before recovering, but the broader picture is still one of unusually high ownership persistence. That reflects both the structure of HDB housing and the broader policy bias toward ownership over long-term renting.
| Year | Resident households | Owner-occupied | Rented | Owner-occupied rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 1,152,000 | 1,038,200 | 106,800 | 90.1% |
| 2013 | 1,174,500 | 1,062,500 | 105,700 | 90.5% |
| 2014 | 1,200,000 | 1,083,400 | 109,800 | 90.3% |
| 2015 | 1,225,300 | 1,112,400 | 106,200 | 90.8% |
| 2016 | 1,263,600 | 1,149,100 | 107,600 | 90.9% |
| 2017 | 1,289,900 | 1,170,200 | 109,800 | 90.7% |
| 2018 | 1,325,300 | 1,205,800 | 112,400 | 91.0% |
| 2019 | 1,372,400 | 1,240,600 | 122,500 | 90.4% |
| 2020 | 1,372,600 | 1,206,000 | 152,100 | 87.9% |
| 2021 | 1,390,600 | 1,236,900 | 134,800 | 88.9% |
| 2022 | 1,399,600 | 1,249,700 | 131,700 | 89.3% |
| 2023 | 1,425,100 | 1,277,800 | 132,000 | 89.7% |
| 2024 | 1,463,400 | 1,329,000 | 124,000 | 90.8% |
Dwelling Type
HDB still defines how most residents live
The latest official dwelling-type split runs through 2025. HDB dwellings still dominate, while condominiums and other apartments account for a meaningful but much smaller private-housing minority.
| Dwelling type | Households | Share of resident households |
|---|---|---|
| HDB dwellings | 1,148,000 | 77.2% |
| Condominiums & other apartments | 266,400 | 17.9% |
| Landed properties | 69,200 | 4.7% |
| Other dwelling types | 3,600 | 0.2% |
| HDB flat type | Households | Share of HDB households |
|---|---|---|
| HDB 1- & 2-room flats | 108,300 | 9.4% |
| HDB 3-room flats | 247,200 | 21.5% |
| HDB 4-room flats | 464,000 | 40.4% |
| HDB 5-room & executive flats | 328,500 | 28.6% |
Within HDB, 4-room flats are still the modal flat type, accounting for 464,000 resident households in 2025. That is 40.4% of HDB households and comfortably ahead of the 5-room-and-executive and 3-room buckets.
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How the article was checked
This guide uses official resident-household datasets only, without relying on blog summaries or commercial secondary sources.
Some series are available through 2025, while others were last updated in 2024.
- • This guide only tracks resident households, consistent with the official SingStat definition. A resident household is one where the household reference person is a Singapore citizen or permanent resident.
- • Resident-household count, average household size, household-size distribution, and dwelling-type mix are shown through 2025 because that is the latest published official year for those series.
- • Home-ownership and living-arrangement sections are shown through 2024 because those are the latest official years currently published for those series.
- • Percentages are rounded to one decimal place, so totals may not always sum perfectly to 100.0%.