Bukit Batok New Town

Bukit Batok
Planning Area and HDB Town
Other transcription(s)
• Chinese	武吉巴督
• Pinyin	Wǔ jí bā dū
• Hokkien	Bú-kiat Pa-tok
• Malay	Bukit Batok
• Tamil	புக்கிட் பாத்தோக்
From top left to right: Aerial view of Bukit Batok West, Aerial view of Bukit Gombak, Bukit Batok Town Park at night, Old Ford Motor Factory, Millennia Institute
Bukit Batok Location of Bukit Batok within Singapore
Coordinates: 1°21′32.51″N 103°45′49.25″E / 1.3590306°N 103.7636806°E / 1.3590306; 103.7636806
Country	Singapore
Region	West Region
CDC	South West CDC
Town councils	Chua Chu Kang Town Council Jurong-Clementi Town Council
Constituencies	Bukit Batok SMC Chua Chu Kang GRC Hong Kah North SMC Jurong GRC
Town announced	21 November 1975
DGP exhibited	1996
PA incorporated	22 January 1999
Government
• Mayor	South West CDC Low Yen Ling
• Members of Parliament	Bukit Batok SMC Murali Pillai Chua Chu Kang GRC Low Yen Ling Hong Kah North SMC Amy Khor Jurong GRC Rahayu Mahzam
Area
• Total	11.13 km2 (4.30 sq mi)
Area rank	25th
• Residential	2.91 km2 (1.12 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	139,270
• Rank	12th
• Density	12,513/km2 (32,410/sq mi)
• Density rank	11th
Demonym(s)	Official Bukit Batok resident Colloquial Bukit Batoker Bukit Batokian
Ethnic groups
• Chinese	102,080
• Malays	19,570
• Indians	13,730
• Others	3,900
Postal districts	21, 23
Dwelling units	32,275
Projected ultimate	53,000

West Region

South West CDC

Bukit Batok SMC

Chua Chu Kang GRC

Hong Kah North SMC

Jurong GRC

Official

Colloquial

Bukit Batok /bukɪt ˈbɑːtɒk/ (Chinese: 武吉巴督, Tamil: புக்கிட் பாத்தோக்), often abbreviated as Bt Batok, is a planning area and matured residential town straddling along the eastern boundary of the West Region of Singapore. Bukit Batok statistically ranks in as the 25th largest, the 12th most populous and the 11th most densely populated planning area in the Republic. It is bordered by six other planning areas - Choa Chu Kang to the north and northwest, Bukit Panjang to the northeast and east, Clementi to the south, Bukit Timah to the southeast, Jurong East to the southwest and Tengah to the west.

Bukit Batok largely sits on Gombak norite, a geological formation that is found in high concentrations within the planning area itself, as well as in the western parts of neighbouring Bukit Panjang. It was this presence of the igneous rock that made Bukit Batok a pivotal location for the quarrying industry in Singapore around the turn of the mid-20th century.