Bukit Timah Planning Area

Bukit Timah
Planning Area and HDB Estate
Other transcription(s)
• Chinese	武吉知马
• Pinyin	Wǔjí Zhīmǎ
• Hokkien POJ	Bú-kiat Ti-bé
• Malay	Bukit Timah
• Tamil	புக்கித் திமா
From top left to right: National Junior College, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, The Chinese High School Clock Tower Building, Aerial view of the Bukit Timah portion of Holland Village, Bukit Timah Railway Station
Bukit Timah Location of Bukit Timah within Singapore
Coordinates: 1°19′45.88″N 103°48′7.48″E / 1.3294111°N 103.8020778°E / 1.3294111; 103.8020778
Country	Singapore
Region	Central Region
CDCs	Central Singapore CDC North West CDC South West CDC
Town councils	Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council Jurong-Clementi Town Council Tanjong Pagar Town Council
Constituencies	Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Jurong GRC Tanjong Pagar GRC
Government
• Mayors	Central Singapore CDC Denise Phua North West CDC Teo Ho Pin South West CDC Low Yen Ling
• Members of Parliament	Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Christopher de Souza Sim Ann Jurong GRC Rahayu Mahzam Tanjong Pagar GRC Chan Chun Sing
Area
• Total	17.53 km2 (6.77 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Total	74,470
• Density	4,200/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Official Bukit Timah resident Colloquial Bukit Timaher Bukit Timahian
Ethnic groups
• Chinese	64,150
• Malays	760
• Indians	3,650
• Others	5,910
Postal districts	10, 11, 21
Dwelling units	2,423

Central Region

Central Singapore CDC

North West CDC

South West CDC

Holland-Bukit Timah GRC

Jurong GRC

Tanjong Pagar GRC

Official

Colloquial

Bukit Timah (Chinese: 武吉知马, Tamil: புக்கித் திமா), often abbreviated as Bt Timah, is a planning area and residential estate located in the Central Region of Singapore. Bukit Timah lies roughly 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the Central Business District, bordering the Central Water Catchment to the north, Bukit Panjang to the northwest, Queenstown to the south, Tanglin to the southeast, Clementi to the southwest, Novena to the east and Bukit Batok to the west.

With little government-funded public housing developments in the area, Bukit Timah has one of the highest densities of private housing out of any other planning areas in the country. Compared to other places located in the outskirts of the city, residential properties in Bukit Timah are far more expensive.

Bukit Timah, which literally means "tin hill" in Malay, was already identified on the 1828 map by Frankin and Jackson as Bukit Timah. The hill in question was depicted on the map towards the northwest as two hills at the eastern source of the Kranji River.