De Velde
A suburb with responsive municipal services and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.
Is De Velde safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in De Velde?
Source: City of Cape Town GV2022
What do utilities cost in De Velde?
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is De Velde?
De Velde has 11 minibus taxi routes.
Taxi connectivity
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
How responsive are municipal services in De Velde?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in De Velde in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 204 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 204
- Requests resolved
- 82% (167 of 204)
- 75% resolved within
- 2 days
- 90% resolved within
- 9 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 204
- Unresolved
- 18.0%
Top issues: Debit Order- 7th,15th and Last day Month (24), E - Billing Invoices (20), Sectional Title Final Accounts (14)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in De Velde
Total outstanding municipal debt in De Velde is R1.8M as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- R1 535 566
- Electricity
- -R338 300 (credit)
- Water
- R239 297
- Refuse
- R131 735
- Sewerage
- R164 492
- City-wide cleaning
- R60 807
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near De Velde?
Healthcare access
6 within 5km- Nearest public
- Somerset West CDC · Community Day Centre · 2.5 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 2.9 km
- Public facilities
- 4
- Private facilities
- 2
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to De Velde is Somerset West, 2.0 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 3.2 km away. The nearest clinic is Somerset West Cdc, 2.5 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Somerset West Cdc · 2.5 km
- Nearest library
- Somerset West · 2.6 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Lourens River Pos · 0.42 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Strand Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
Nearby suburbs
Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to De Velde. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Facilities: March 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.
City of Cape Town. CCT Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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De Velde, Cape Town