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Dorhill

A suburb with above-average property values and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

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

What's it like to live here?

Dorhill is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, 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. There is a place of worship in the area.

How is the area changing?

In Dorhill, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have broadly tracked inflation between valuation rolls.

What should buyers know?

School and matric pass rate data is limited for Dorhill. 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 Dorhill safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. dorhill 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 Dorhill?

71st percentile

The median property value in Dorhill is R2.7M. Property values have grown by 5.3% per year since 2018.

A 5.3% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Dorhill properties (GV2022)

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
R2,700,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
+5.3% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile
71st percentile
Dominant value band
1.5-2M
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 Dorhill?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R695 / month
6% above city median
Electricity
R1 646 / month
13% below median of CoCT-billed suburbs
Water trend:Dec 2025: R813Jan 2026: R639Feb 2026: R695
Electricity trend:Dec 2025: R1 646Jan 2026: R1 675Feb 2026: R1 599

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Dorhill

↑ Increasing

Dorhill had 9 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 3 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.

3-year approvals
9
Annual average
3/yr
Avg project value
R269K

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).

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is Dorhill?

Moderate connectivity

Dorhill has 15 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
15 routes
53rd percentile · 17 destinations
Firgrove, Firgrove (r102), Helderberg (via heldervue), Heldervue (somerset wes), Heldervue (somerset west), Hottentots holland hospital +11 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 Dorhill?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Dorhill in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 549 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.
2
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
23rd
Percentile
across Cape Town
30%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (13%)Single street light out (7%)Power outage (7%)Re-instatement (6%)Burst pipe (6%)
Service requests logged
549
Requests resolved
77% (420 of 549)
75% resolved within
9 days
90% resolved within
27 days
Source
CCT service request database
Community & faith

Places of worship

1 registered
Christian
1

Places of worship per suburb from City of Cape Town open data, supplemented with OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Coverage: 373 of 744 suburbs.

Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Above city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated?
20989.5 per 1,000 households
Total complaints
547
Unresolved
24.0%

Top issues: Sewerage overflow (70), Single street light out (40), Power outage (36)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Dorhill

38% below city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Dorhill averages R5 457 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R5 457
per account
38% below city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R5 438Apr 2026: R5 957May 2026: R5 457
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R344 827
Electricity
R293 354
Water
R109 035
Refuse
R46 003
Sewerage
R37 819
City-wide cleaning
R14 803
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 Dorhill?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km
Nearest public
Helderberg Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 1 km
Nearest private
Mediclinic Vergelegen · Private Hospital · 2.1 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 Dorhill is Somerset West, 1.4 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 5.3 km away. The nearest clinic is Helderberg Hospital, 1.0 km away.

Nearest clinic
Helderberg Hospital · 1 km
Nearest library
Somerset West · 1.1 km
Nearest park / open space
Koejawelboord Park · 0.03 km

Fire station

1.4
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

5.3
km to nearest
public pool
0
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

Berbago308m · R2.5M
Stuart's Hill396m · R2.9M
Pearl Marina650m · R3.6M
Pearl Rise677m · R3.8M
Jacques Hill715m · R3.3M
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Bordering suburbs

9 adjacent

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

Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Facilities: March 2026 | Water billing: Dec 2020 - Feb 2026 | Electricity 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).

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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