Bukit Timah situated at the west-south part of Singapore, Covering a land are of 99.4 square kilometers. The district has an estimated population of 285,000, of whom 77.2% are of Chinese origin, 9.6% are of Malays origin, 5.7%are of Indian origin and 7.5% are of other races. The average age of people in Bukit Timah are young. About 14.1% of the population are below 10 years old, 30.4% between 10 and 29, 36.4% between 30 and 49, and 19.1% are 50 years old and above. Bukit Timah comprises the following: Group Representation Constituency(GRC) and Single Member Constituencies(SMCS)    .

GRC Bukit Timah includes Bukit Batok District, Bukit Timah Districk, Jurong Districk, Pandan Districk, and Yuhua Districk.

SMCS includes Ayer Rajah Constituency and Chua Chu Kang Constituency.

Bukit Timah has the following public amentities.

(a) 25 educational centres

(b) 47 schools

(c) 2 public libraries

(d) 2 polyclinics

(e) 2 hospitals

(f) 46 places of worship

(g) 7 neighborhood police posts

(h) 41 civil defence shelters

(i) 1 fire station.

On April 10, 1994, Zhang Mingtai, Mayor of Changsha and Wang Jiayuan, vice Chairman of Jurong East Community Development Council(became Bukit Timah Community Development Council in 1997),signed the “Agreement on Establishment of Friendship City Relationship Between Changsha, China and Jurong East, Singapore.” In Changsha.