Jurong West area profile

Overview

Jurong West sits at the western end of URA's West Region housing belt, between Jurong East, Tengah, Boon Lay and Pioneer. It covers 14.68 square kilometres and held 250,890 residents in June 2026, the fifth-largest population of any planning area after Tampines, Bedok, Sengkang and Woodlands. SingStat notes that these five are the only planning areas with more than 250,000 residents each.

Who lives here

Children under 15 made up 12.1% of residents in June 2026 and people aged 65 and over 18.4%, both slightly below the national shares of 13.3% and 19.5%. About 51,730 residents were between 25 and 39, and some 7,460 children were under five.

Homes and dwelling types

Jurong West is one of the most HDB-heavy areas in Singapore: 91% of residents lived in HDB flats in June 2026. The flats are mostly large, with about 96,250 people in 5-room and executive flats and 93,050 in 4-room flats. Condominiums and other apartments housed 7% of residents and landed homes about 2%.

Residents by type of dwelling, June 2026 (SingStat). Shares are our arithmetic; “–” means nil or negligible.

In HDB's third-quarter 2026 release, Jurong West's medians were S$375,000 for a 3-room flat, S$538,000 for a 4-room flat, S$630,000 for a 5-room flat and S$744,000 for an executive flat. Its 4-room median was the lowest of any town with a published figure that quarter. Our HDB resale medians page has the full comparison.

Getting around

Three East-West Line stations have exits in Jurong West today.

Stations announced with a date (LTA):

Lakeside, Boon Lay and Pioneer give the town three stops on the East-West Line. The Jurong Region Line will add far more coverage. LTA's first stage, listed for 2028, runs from Choa Chu Kang to Boon Lay and Tawas, and its Corporation, Jurong West, Bahar Junction, Gek Poh and Boon Lay stations are inside this planning area. The third stage adds Enterprise in 2029.

Schools

Twenty MOE schools sit inside the boundary on the 2025 map, among the highest counts of any planning area. The primary schools are Boon Lay Garden, Corporation, Frontier, Jurong West, Lakeside, Rulang, Shuqun, West Grove, Westwood and Xingnan. The secondary schools are Boon Lay, Fuhua, Hua Yi, Jurong, Jurong West, Juying, Westwood, Yuan Ching and Yuhua, together with River Valley High School, a Special Assistance Plan school whose Integrated Programme runs to JC2.

Hawker centres

NEA lists four. Taman Jurong Market and Food Centre, at 3 Yung Sheng Road, has 122 cooked-food stalls, the fourth-highest count on NEA's register. Boon Lay Place Market and Food Village has 72 stalls, the centre at Block 505 Jurong West Street 52 has 60, and Jurong West Hawker Centre, opened in 2017 at Block 50 Jurong West Street 61, has 39.

Parks

NParks lists ten parks, including Jurong Central Park, Yunnan Park, Westwood Family Park and the first phase of Bulim Park. Jurong Lake Gardens is next door in Jurong East.

Healthcare

Pioneer Polyclinic, run by National University Polyclinics, is at 26 Jurong West Street 61. MOH's June 2024 CHAS list counts 59 clinics. Ng Teng Fong General Hospital is in neighbouring Jurong East.

Community facilities

The People's Association's June 2024 list includes Boon Lay, Jurong Green, Jurong Spring, Nanyang, Taman Jurong and The Frontier community clubs, with a Gek Poh Ville CC building pending. NLB runs Jurong West Public Library, and SportSG lists Jurong West Sport Centre, a hockey village at Boon Lay and a sport village at Jurong Town. ECDA's June 2024 list places 133 pre-schools here.

New launches in Jurong West

Nearby planning areas

Next to Jurong West on URA's map: Jurong East, Boon Lay, Pioneer, Tengah, Western Water Catchment.

Every planning area has a page on our neighbourhoods index.

Sources

1. URA, Master Plan 2025 Planning Area Boundary (No Sea), data.gov.sg (updated 27 February 2026)
2. LTA, MRT Station Exit (GEOJSON), data.gov.sg (updated 18 October 2026)
3. LTA, Train Station Chinese Names (station codes and lines), data.gov.sg; LTA rail system map
4. MOE, General information of schools (2026), data.gov.sg (updated 17 April 2026)
5. NEA, Hawker Centres (GEOJSON), data.gov.sg (updated 14 November 2026), checked against NEA's list of hawker centres (17 August 2026)
6. People's Association, Community Clubs, data.gov.sg (list dated June 2024)
7. NParks, Parks, data.gov.sg (updated 14 November 2026)
8. MOH, CHAS Clinics, data.gov.sg (list dated June 2024)
9. NLB, Libraries, data.gov.sg (list dated June 2024)
10. SportSG, Sport Facilities (GEOJSON), data.gov.sg (updated 13 November 2025)
11. SingStat, Resident Population by Planning Area/Subzone, Age Group and Type of Dwelling, June 2026 (released 25 September 2026), singstat.gov.sg
12. HDB, 3rd Quarter 2026 Public Housing Data, Annex C: Median Resale Prices by Town and Flat Type (23 October 2026), hdb.gov.sg
13. SLA, OneMap search (venue addresses and locations)
14. ECDA, Pre-Schools Location (list dated June 2024) and Kindergartens (updated April 2026), data.gov.sg
15. NHG Polyclinics, SingHealth Polyclinics and National University Polyclinics: lists of polyclinics (November 2026)
16. LTA, Jurong Region Line project page: Stage 1 and Stage 2 in 2028, Stage 3 in 2029
17. SingStat, Statistics Singapore Newsletter Issue 2, 2026: Geographic Profiling of Singapore's Resident Population

Facts checked on 15 November 2026. See our editorial policy.

Last updated 15 November 2026