Pipeline for household water supply is usually located in an unreachable position, such as inside concrete wall or floor. Consequently, the positions of leakage at the household pipeline are difficult to estimate. Moreover, without any utility blueprint, the repair process can consume considerable resources. Acoustic emission techniques analyse the recorded sound wave from the sensor readings due to external stimulus to estimate the leakage location. However, for home usage, the approach of using the external stimulus and multisensor readings is not convenient for end-users. In this paper, we propose an acoustic-based system with a single sensor and without any external stimulus to detect the presence of both pipeline and leakage. We show the performances of the proposed system in terms of accuracy, precision, and recall for the detections of pipeline and leakage. Moreover, we also present the resolution test that is to measure the ability of the proposed system to an unknown leak location, i.e. how far the actual leak point might be located from the inspection point. The 5-cm resolution test had superior performances to the 10-cm test in terms of accuracy and recall metrics, whereas the 10-cm target had a better precision value.