Bukit Batok

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Bukit Batok
Planning Area and HDB Town
Other transcription(s)
• Malay	Bukit Batok (Rumi) بوکيت باتوق‎ (Jawi)
• Chinese	武吉巴督 Wǔjí Bādū (Pinyin) Bú-kit Pa-tok (Hokkien POJ)
• Tamil	புக்கிட் பாத்தோக் Pukkiṭ Pāttōk (Transliteration)
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
Location of Bukit Batok in Singapore
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[1]
DGP exhibited	1996[2]
PA incorporated	22 January 1999[2]
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 [3][4]
• Total	11.13 km2 (4.30 sq mi)
• Rank	25th
• Residential	2.91 km2 (1.12 sq mi)
Elevation	50 m (170 ft)
Population  (2019)[3][4][5]
• Total	158,030
• Rank	13th
• Density	14,000/km2 (37,000/sq mi)
• Rank	11th
Ethnic groups [5]
• Chinese	113,460
• Malays	25,240
• Indians	14,950
• Others	4,380
Postal districts	21, 23
Dwelling units	32,275
Projected ultimate	53,000

Bukit Batok, often abbreviated as Bt Batok, is a planning area and matured residential town located 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 Singapore.^[3][5] It is bordered by six other planning areas - Choa Chu Kang to the North, Northeast and Northwest, Cashew to the northeast and East, Clementi to the South, Bukit Timah to the southeast, Jurong East to the southwest and Tengah to the west.^[6][7]

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 Cashew.^[8][9][10] 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.^[11]