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De Velde

A suburb with responsive municipal services and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

Neighbourhood data for De Velde
Safety data not available. Property, school, and service data shown below.

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

For home buyers & families

Is De Velde safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. de-velde makes up a very small share of the Somerset West police precinct, so we cannot reliably separate its crime data from the rest of the precinct. Rather than show a score that could be misleading, we have withheld it.

Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026

FOR BUYERS & INVESTORS

What do properties cost in De Velde?

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in De Velde?

Utility billing data is not available for De Velde. This area is not individually billed by the City of Cape Town - services may be delivered through communal infrastructure, prepaid meters, or Eskom supply.More about data coverage

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

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is De Velde?

Moderate connectivity

De Velde has 11 minibus taxi routes.

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 ›

Moderate connectivity
11 routes
42nd percentile · 11 destinations
Advanced medical technology(somerset west), Ae & ci strand, Firgrove, Gordons bay, Macassar, Riverton street(somerset west) +5 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 De Velde?

Highly responsive

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.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Infrastructure problems get fixed fast. The median resolution under one day means De Velde residents experience responsive municipal service – a signal of well-maintained infrastructure and efficient complaint routing.
1
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
60th
Percentile
across Cape Town
37%
Resolved
same day
Debit Order- 7th,15th and Last day Month (12%)E - Billing Invoices (10%)Sectional Title Final Accounts (7%)Sewerage overflow (6%)Power outage (6%)
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
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Below city average
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 FINANCE

Municipal debt in De Velde

Data available
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Total outstanding municipal debt in De Velde is R1.8M as of May 2026.

R1.8M
total
Breakdown 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

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 De Velde?

Well served

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

2
km to nearest
fire station
Somerset West
community station
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

3.2
km to nearest
public pool
1
pools
within 5 km
1
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Strand 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

Lourensia Park535m · R390K
Strand Golf Club555m
Heartland Historic Precinct699m · R4.6M
Heartland Beach Road Precinct702m
Mall Triangle727m
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Bordering suburbs

5 adjacent

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).

Data sources & legal attribution
SAPS Crime StatsCCT Open DataStats SACCT 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.

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

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