Living in Bukit Batok
Bukit Batok scores 67/100 median overall across 426 HDB blocks and about 144,198 residents. It is strongest on schools and healthcare, and weakest on food. Median commute to the city centre is about 44 minutes.
How Bukit Batok scores
- Transport
- 64
- Food
- 35
- Schools
- 100
- Healthcare
- 84
- Daily needs
- 60
- Green space
- 75
- Connectivity
- 55
- Value (lease)
- 61
- Leisure
- 70
Commute by public transport
- Raffles Placecity centre
- 44min
- one-north
- 37min
- Jurong East
- 19min
- Changi Airport
- 80min
Median door-to-door minutes, weekday 08:00, OneMap routing. Compare all towns →
What Bukit Batok is like to live in
Bukit Batok is a large, established HDB town of 426 scored blocks housing roughly 144,198 residents. Across the nine liveability pillars its clearest strengths are schools and healthcare, while food is where it lags relative to the rest of Singapore. On our persona composites it reads best for young families, scoring 73/100 for that group.
Getting around and to work
The median block in Bukit Batok reaches Raffles Place in about 44 minutes by public transport on a weekday morning, and the town’s best-connected blocks are faster still. Commute varies block to block, so screen against the job hub that matters to you — the CBD, one-north, Jurong East or Changi — rather than the town average alone.
Where to look within Bukit Batok
Bukit Batok spans 8 subzones — Brickworks, Bukit Batok Central, Bukit Batok East, Bukit Batok South, Bukit Batok West, Gombak, Guilin, Hong Kah North. The highest-scoring blocks below are a good starting shortlist; open any block for its full scores, nearest amenities with walk times, and exact commute itinerary.
Highest-scoring blocks in Bukit Batok
Who lives here
Census 2020 · Bukit Batok planning area- Age profile
- In Bukit Batok, 14.2% of residents are under 15 and 13.7% are 65 or older.
- 30–348.6%25–297.9%55–597.9%50–547.5%
- Household income
- 38.7% of Bukit Batok households earn $10,000 or more a month (gross, from work).
- $20,000+13.2%No working person11%$1,000–1,9996.1%$4,000–4,9995.9%
- Dwelling mix
- 79.8% of Bukit Batok households live in HDB flats; 19.9% in condominiums or landed homes.
- HDB 4 room flats33.9%HDB 3 room flats21.2%HDB 5 room and executive flats18.6%Condominiums and other apartments17.2%
- Household size
- 38.8% of Bukit Batok households are one or two people; 2-person households are the most common.
- 2-person23.2%3-person23%4-person20%1-person15.6%
- In education
- Of Bukit Batok residents currently in education, 26.1% attend polytechnic or university.
- Primary31%Secondary24.1%University16.3%Polytechnic9.8%
- Commute to work
- 58.2% of working Bukit Batok residents commute by public transport; 29.9% drive or ride.
- MRT LRT and bus27.9%Car22.5%Bus15.4%MRT LRT only12%
Resident data for the Bukit Batok planning area, Census 2020 — Singapore Department of Statistics, via OneMap (Singapore Land Authority).