Bosonia has a safety index of 99+ out of 100 (Lower reported crime). This is a relative measure comparing reported crime across Cape Town suburbs, not an absolute safety guarantee. The Kuilsrivier precinct recorded approximately 4,280 crimes in the most recent annual period. Absolute crime volume is near the city average.

Is Bosonia affordable?

Bosonia sits in the mid-range for Cape Town property values. The median is R2M, placing it in the 58th percentile, broadly in line with the city median. Note that these figures are based on the City of Cape Town General Valuation 2022 and reflect municipal valuations, not necessarily current market prices.

What are utility costs in Bosonia?

The median monthly water cost per account in Bosonia is R899, 37% above the city median of R658.

What is the municipal debt in Bosonia?

As of May 2026, the average outstanding municipal debt per account in Bosonia is R20,612, 134% above the city median of R8,815. Figures include all account types, so may overstate household debt in areas with commercial activity.

Bosonia

A suburb with lower reported crime and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

Safety99+/100Precinct estimate only · ↓ Improving Property6-800kTop 42%Schools1nearby Healthcare6 facilitiesmore access than most suburbs CouncilNear avg complaints2d median resolution TransportMinibus taxi coveragewell-connected area

Data current as of June 2026

The neighbourhood

What's it like to live here?

Bosonia is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values sit in the middle-to-upper range for Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.

How is the area changing?

In Bosonia, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have broadly tracked inflation between valuation rolls. The suburb is within a City-designated Development Focus Area, signalling future investment and infrastructure priorities.

What should buyers know?

Bosonia is served by schools within reach. In this area, service complaints are generally resolved within a few days. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.

Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.

These statistics describe the suburb as a whole. Conditions vary between streets and neighbourhoods within any suburb.

For home buyers & families

Is Bosonia safe?

Lower reported crime

Higher crimeModerateLower crime

92nd percentile among 744 suburbs · Data: Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026) · relative index, not an absolute safety measure

ModerateAbsolute crime volume

4 280 reported crimes per year · city median: 4 280

↓ 16.5% vs Q3 2024

Crime is low and falling. This is one of the safer parts of Cape Town, with violent crime well below the city average and a positive year-on-year trend. Contact crime (assault, robbery) dominates the reported crime profile.

Detailed data

Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated?: 99+ / 100Limited data — why?
Contact crime rate: 491,057 per 100k residents
Station population: 83 576
Harm rate (per resident): 99+/100
Harm volume (absolute): 99+/100
Data period: Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0

This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Kuilsrivier precinct, which covers Bosonia and surrounding suburbs. Reported crime may differ from actual crime levels.Full methodology

Disagree with this score? Challenge the methodology ›

Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026

FOR BUYERS & INVESTORS

What do properties cost in Bosonia?

58th percentile

City of Cape Town Development Focus Area

Bosonia is within the Kuils River development focus area. The City of Cape Town has designated this area as a development priority, signalling committed public investment in infrastructure, services, and economic opportunity.

Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development focus areas indicate City planning intent, not guaranteed timelines.

The median property value in Bosonia is R2M. Property values have grown by 4.9% per year since 2018.

A 4.9% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.

Value band distribution – Bosonia properties (GV2022)

0-200k

4-600k

6-800k ◀

800k-1M

1-1.5M

1.5-2M

Property values are based on the City of Cape Town's 2022 General Valuation roll. GV is an assessed value for municipal rating purposes; transaction prices frequently exceed GV. Recent sales transaction data and rental market data are not available as open data in South Africa.

Median GV2022: R2,050,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022): +4.9% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile: 58th percentile
Dominant value band: 6-800k
Source: CCT GV 2022 · Open Data Policy 27781
Vintage: General Valuation 2022 (municipal valuation, not current market price)

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in Bosonia?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data

Water

R899 / month

37% above city median

Electricity

R3 327 / month

75% above median of CoCT-billed suburbs

Based on a small number of accounts

Water trend:Dec 2025: R879Jan 2026: R915Feb 2026: R899

Electricity trend:Dec 2025: R3 869Jan 2026: R3 327Feb 2026: R683

Monthly cost per account from City of Cape Town billing data. Water coverage: 647 suburbs. Electricity coverage: 384 suburbs.

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Bosonia

↑ Increasing

Bosonia had 7 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 2 per year. Most were other approvals.

3-year approvals: 7
Annual average: 2/yr
Avg project value: R166K

Building plans approved by the City of Cape Town (2014-2025). Approvals indicate planned investment, not completed construction. This data reflects formal building activity only and does not capture informal construction, backyard dwellings, or building work undertaken without a formal plan submission. In areas with high informality, actual construction activity may be substantially higher than these figures suggest. Source: CoCT Building Development Management (DAMS).

FOR PARENTS

How are schools in Bosonia?

1 school nearby

Bosonia has 1 school within reach. Schools include Junior Campus Private School.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs.Bosonia will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›

IND
Junior Campus Private School
Independent · Grades R–7 · 154 learners · 19.2:1 learner-educator ratio
PrivateNo-fee schoolFavourable class size

Quintile 5 is the highest government-funding category - fees apply, but these are the best-resourced public schools in South Africa. Rankings set by the WCED against community socioeconomic index. Learner-educator ratio (LER) is from EMIS Q2 2025; under 30:1 is favourable by WCED standards, over 40:1 indicates strained capacity. What quintile means ›

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is Bosonia?

Connected

Bosonia has 30 minibus taxi routes.

Taxi connectivity

Connected

30 routes

74th percentile · 20 destinations

Routes pass through Bosonia but may not originate or terminate here. Connectivity index reflects geographic proximity to route corridors.

Bellville, Blackheath, Blackheath railway station, Bottelary rd,kuilsriver, Brentwood park, Eerste river +14 more

Based on CCT minibus taxi route data. Routes matched by name and spatial proximity (500m). Methodology ›

Commute mode data is not available for this suburb. The CCT Household Survey covers 163 survey areas; this suburb is outside the surveyed areas.

Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024

FOR RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Bosonia?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Bosonia in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 373 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data

Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 2-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.

Median days to resolve
City median: 1

18th

Percentile
across Cape Town

24%

Resolved
same day

Sewerage overflow (15%)Single street light out (12%)Power outage (8%)Street lights out (7%)Stolen Bins - 240L (5%)

Service requests logged: 373
Requests resolved: 82% (307 of 373)
75% resolved within: 6 days
90% resolved within: 30 days
Source: CCT service request database

Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Near city average

Complaint rate How is this calculated?: 1891.5 per 1,000 households
Total complaints: 372
Unresolved: 18.0%

Top issues: Sewerage overflow (57), Single street light out (44), Power outage (29)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Bosonia

134% above city median

Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Bosonia averages R20 612 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R20 612

per account

134% above city median

Trend:Mar 2026: R29 984Apr 2026: R20 612May 2026: R15 524

Breakdown as of May 2026

Property rates: R544 586
Electricity: R295 336
Water: R244 546
Refuse: R80 553
Sewerage: R140 624
City-wide cleaning: R13 927
Improvement district: R0

Outstanding municipal arrears from City of Cape Town financial records. Coverage: 741 suburbs. Per-account figures available for 582 suburbs.

FOR FAMILIES

What services are near Bosonia?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km

Nearest public: Kuilsriver Clinic · Community Day Centre · 0.2 km
Nearest private: Netcare Kuils River Hospital · Private Hospital · 1.2 km
Public facilities: 5
Private facilities: 1

This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.

The nearest fire station to Bosonia is Kuilsriver, 1.1 km away. The nearest public pool is Bellville South Swimming Pool, 4.2 km away. The nearest clinic is Kuilsriver Clinic, 0.2 km away.

Nearest clinic: Kuilsriver Clinic · 0.2 km
Nearest library: Kuilsriver · 0.4 km
Nearest park / open space: Spruit Street Park · 0.34 km

Fire station

1.1

km to nearest
fire station

Kuilsriver

community station

within-5km

response
category

Cape Town has 32 fire stations serving 744 suburbs. Source: CCT open data.

Public swimming pools

4.2

km to nearest
public pool

pools
within 5 km

pools
within 10 km

Nearest pool: Bellville South Swimming Pool

Cape Town operates 35 public swimming pools. Source: CCT open data.

Distances straight-line from suburb centroid.

Source: City of Cape Town facility registry

Nearby suburbs

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Brantwood819m · R1.5M

68→

Jan Kriel870m

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Bordering suburbs

3 adjacent

Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Bosonia. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.

De Kuilen Elim Klipdam

Next refresh: when SAPS publishes Q1 2026/2027 (typically about 3 months after the period closes).

Data sources & legal attribution

SAPS Crime StatsCCT Open DataStats SADBE SchoolsCCT Service Requests

South African Police Service, via DataFirst (UCT). SAPS crime statistics, 2019-2026 [dataset]. DOI: 10.25828/5MAW-4H90. CC-BY 4.0.

City of Cape Town. City of Cape Town open data, 2022–2025 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.

Statistics South Africa. Stats SA Census 2022, 2022 [dataset]. Stats SA standard terms (permissive). Analysis is the user's own and not endorsed by Stats SA.

Department of Basic Education, EMIS (Western Cape Q2 2025; Gauteng Q3 2025). DBE EMIS masterlist and public school data, 2023-2025 [dataset]. Source. CC-BY 4.0.

City of Cape Town. CCT Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.

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Bosonia

What's it like to live here?

How is the area changing?

What should buyers know?

Is Bosonia safe?

What do properties cost in Bosonia?

What do utilities cost in Bosonia?

Development activity in Bosonia

How are schools in Bosonia?

How connected is Bosonia?

Taxi connectivityRanks this suburb's taxi route access against all 744 Cape Town suburbs. Based on routes matched by name and within 500m of suburb centre. Large suburbs may have higher actual connectivity than shown.Full methodology ›

How responsive are municipal services in Bosonia?

Complaints & top issues

Municipal debt in Bosonia

What services are near Bosonia?

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