How many vehicles are there in Singapore?

1,005,012 motor vehicles at 30 September 2026 — 651,003 cars and station-wagons, 11,827 taxis, 154,819 motorcycles and scooters, 142,140 goods and other vehicles, 18,268 buses and 26,955 tax-exempted vehicles (LTA Monthly Vehicle Statistics M06B).

Is the vehicle population growing or shrinking?

Shrinking in 2026: 1,011,293 vehicles at 31 March 2026, 1,008,007 at 30 June, 1,005,012 at 30 September. In January–September 2026, 57,157 vehicles were newly registered and 64,168 de-registered — a net fall of 7,011.

How many private hire cars are there in Singapore?

98,621 at 30 September 2026 — 37,625 self-drive and 60,996 chauffeur. That is up from 29,369 at end-2015, a 3.3× rise; private hire is now 9.5% of the fleet.

Oxaide Research • Transport • Snapshot 14 November 2026

Singapore vehicle population, counted

1,005,012 motor vehicles on the road at 30 September 2026. The fleet shrank through 2026 — 1,011,293 at 31 March, 1,008,007 at 30 June — because de-registrations (64,168 in January–September) outran new registrations (57,157), a net fall of 7,011. Cars are still two-thirds of the fleet; private hire has tripled since 2015 while taxis have more than halved.

By type — end 2025

Vehicle type	Population	Share
Cars & station-wagons	659,889	65.2%
Motorcycles & scooters	151,616	15.0%
Goods and other vehicles	142,696	14.1%
Tax-exempted vehicles	27,304	2.7%
Buses	18,357	1.8%
Taxis	12,161	1.2%
All motor vehicles	1,012,023	100%

Source: LTA Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Type (MVP01-1), January 2026 update, via LTA DataMall static datasets.

Ten years — 2015 to 2025

Measure	End 2015	End 2025	Change
All motor vehicles	957,246	1,012,023	+54,777 (+5.7%)
Cars & station-wagons	602,311	659,889	+57,578 (+9.6%)
Private hire cars	29,369	95,857	+66,488 (+226%, 3.3×)
Taxis	28,259	12,161	−16,098 (−57.0%)
Motorcycles & scooters	143,279	151,616	+8,337 (+5.8%)

Private hire was 3.1% of the fleet in 2015 and 9.5% at end-2025. The taxi fleet peaked in 2015 and has fallen every year since.

Latest — 30 September 2026

Vehicle type	Population	Jan–Sep 2026: new / de-reg
Cars & station-wagons	651,003	40,843 / 49,729
Private cars	513,970	—
Company cars	31,934	—
Private hire, self-drive	37,625	—
Private hire, chauffeur	60,996	—
Off-peak cars	5,777	—
Motorcycles & scooters	154,819	9,407 / 6,204
Goods and other vehicles	142,140	5,057 / 5,613
Buses (public buses 6,094)	18,268	389 / 478
Taxis	11,827	534 / 868
Tax-exempted vehicles	26,955	927 / 1,276
All motor vehicles	1,005,012	57,157 / 64,168

Source: LTA Monthly Vehicle Statistics (M06B), January–September 2026. Private cars are 79.0% of all cars; private hire (98,621) is now more than eight times the taxi fleet (11,827). Figures are subject to changes in usage type and licensing status, per LTA.

What the numbers say

The fleet is shrinking in 2026, not growing: every quarter this year has been smaller than the last, because more vehicles are being scrapped than registered. The ten-year shift is structural, not a blip — private hire went from a niche to nearly one in ten vehicles, while the taxi fleet fell by more than half. Cars keep growing as a share: 65.2% of the fleet at end-2025. No forecast here — the next monthly release will say whether the 2026 shrinkage continues.

Sources: LTA Annual Motor Vehicle Population by Vehicle Type (MVP01-1), January 2026 update; LTA Monthly Vehicle Statistics (M06B), January–September 2026 — both via LTA DataMall, read 14 November 2026, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://datamall.lta.gov.sg/content/datamall/en/SingaporeOpenDataLicence.html). Oxaide is not LTA and is not endorsed by LTA.

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