Cravenby
A suburb with moderate reported crime, below-average property values, and strong school performance relative to Cape Town.
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The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Cravenby is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values are moderate by Cape Town standards. The area's safety profile is below the city average for reported safety. There is a place of worship in the area. The dominant commuter mode is private vehicle.
How is the area changing?
In Cravenby, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property value growth has lagged behind inflation between valuation rolls.
What should buyers know?
Cravenby is served by schools within reach, and matric results are broadly in line with the city average. 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.
Is Cravenby safe?
37th percentile among 744 suburbs · based on precinct-level data shared with 7 suburbs · Data: Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026) · relative index, not an absolute safety measure
Detailed data
- Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated?
- 40 / 100
- Contact crime rate
- 437,375 per 100k residents
- Station population
- 58 979
- Harm rate (per resident)
- 29/100
- Harm volume (absolute)
- 54/100
- Data period
- Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
- Source
- SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Ravensmead precinct, which covers Cravenby and surrounding suburbs. Reported crime may differ from actual crime levels.Full methodology
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Cravenby?
The median property value in Cravenby is R1.1M. Property values have grown by 3.1% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R1,050,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +3.1% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 32nd percentile
- Dominant value band
- 800k-1M
- Source
- CCT GV 2022 · Open Data Policy 27781
- Vintage
- General Valuation 2022 (municipal valuation, not current market price)
Source: City of Cape Town GV2022
What do utilities cost in Cravenby?
Development activity in Cravenby
Cravenby had 12 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 4 per year. Most were other approvals.
- 3-year approvals
- 12
- Annual average
- 4/yr
- Avg project value
- R906K
How are schools in Cravenby?
Cravenby has 1 school within reach. The area matric pass rate is 90.2%, above the city median of 90.0%. Schools include Cravenby Secondary School.
- Adjusted pass rate
- 90.2%
- City median: 90.0%
- Schools contributing
- 1
- 139 candidates
- Median quintile
- Q5
- Q4-Q5
- Q5Cravenby Secondary SchoolQuintile 5School fees apply
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Cravenby?
Cravenby has 38 minibus taxi routes. The most common way people get to work is by private vehicle (46%).
Taxi connectivity
Commute mode share
- Dominant mode
- Private vehicle (46%)
- Source
- CCT Household Survey 2024
Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024
What are living conditions in Cravenby?
Cravenby has a service delivery index of 95 out of 100, above the city median of 84.5. 74% of dwellings are formal structures.
Access to basic services
- Piped water
- 93.9%
- Flush toilet
- 88.3%
- Weekly refuse
- 100.0%
- Grid electricity
- 97.3%
Housing & tenure
- Formal dwellings
- 74.0%
- Owner-occupied
- 68.0%
- Rented
- 15.9%
Environmental risk
- Flooding risk
- 9.4%
- Fire risk
- 1.8%
- Violent crime
- 3.0%
- Non-violent crime
- 4.9%
Economic structure
- Food spending share
- 42.8%
- Share of income spent on food
City median: 35.3%
Under pressure, limited discretionary income · 36th percentile - Hardship dimensions
- 1
- Areas of material need (out of 8)
- Grant income share
- 46.0%
- of households receiving grants
Digital inclusion
- Home fibre
- 43.6%
- City median: 46.5%
- Mobile only
- 34.4%
- No access
- 18.1%
Food security
- Adult food insecurity
- 11.3%
- City median: 18.3%
- Child food insecurity
- 11.8%
- City median: 13.0%
- Food insecurity prevalence
- 9.7%
- City median: 22.3%
Demographics & community
- Avg household size
- 3.7 people
- Avg children per household
- 1.1
Asset ownership
- Computer access
- 37.5%
- Fridge ownership
- 89.8%
- Property ownership
- 0.0%
- Geyser ownership
- 59.7%
- Borehole access
- 11.0%
Home-based economy
- Home-based business
- 4.0%
- of households operate a home-based business
- WFH full-time
- 0.7%
Source: City of Cape Town household survey · 2024
How responsive are municipal services in Cravenby?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Cravenby in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 2,309 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 2 309
- Requests resolved
- 77% (1 782 of 2 309)
- 75% resolved within
- 5 days
- 90% resolved within
- 14 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Places of worship
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 2565.4 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 2 305
- Unresolved
- 23.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (340), Street lights out (166), Illegal dumping (103)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Cravenby
Municipal debt in Cravenby averages R12 870 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R2 142 060
- Electricity
- R391
- Water
- R3 891 157
- Refuse
- R1 035 245
- Sewerage
- R1 739 320
- City-wide cleaning
- R58 813
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Cravenby?
Healthcare access
20 within 5km- Nearest public
- Ravensmead Clinic/CDC · Clinic · 0.8 km
- Nearest private
- Cape Eye Hospital · Private Hospital · 3.4 km
- Public facilities
- 16
- Private facilities
- 4
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Cravenby is Goodwood, 4.1 km away. The nearest public pool is Ravensmead Swimming Pool, 0.7 km away. The nearest clinic is Ravensmead Clinic/Cdc, 0.8 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Ravensmead Clinic/Cdc · 0.8 km
- Nearest library
- Leonsdale · 1.4 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Tiarra Way Park · 0.97 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Ravensmead Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
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Data as of: Safety: Q4 2025/2026 | Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | Matric: NSC 2025 | Household: CCT Survey Feb-Oct 2024 | Facilities: March 2026 | Water billing: Dec 2020 - Feb 2026 | Municipal arrears: Jan 2025 - May 2026
Next refresh: when SAPS publishes Q1 2026/2027 (typically about 3 months after the period closes).
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 Household Survey 2024, 2024 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
City of Cape Town. CCT Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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Cravenby, Cape Town