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Faure

A suburb with below-average property values relative to Cape Town.

Neighbourhood data for Faure
Safety data not available. Property, school, and service data shown below.
Property7-8MTop 69%Schools1nearbyHealthcare13 facilitiesmore access than most suburbsCouncilBelow avg complaints4.5d median resolutionTransportMinibus taxi coverage5 routes serving the area

The neighbourhood

What's it like to live here?

Faure is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values are moderate by Cape Town standards. 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 Faure, crime is rising based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have grown above inflation between valuation rolls.

What should buyers know?

Faure is served by schools within reach. In this area, service complaint resolution takes around a week on average. 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 Faure safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. faure makes up a very small share of the Macassar 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 Faure?

31st percentile

The median property value in Faure is R1M. Property values have grown by 6.8% per year since 2018.

A 6.8% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Faure 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
R1,000,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
+6.8% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile
31st percentile
Dominant value band
7-8M
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 Faure?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R331 / month
50% below city median
Based on a small number of accounts
Electricity
This area is supplied by Eskom. City of Cape Town electricity billing data is not available.
Water trend:Dec 2025: R331Jan 2026: R352Feb 2026: R301

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Faure

↑ Increasing

Faure had 24 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 8 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.

3-year approvals
24
Annual average
8/yr
Avg project value
R9.0M

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 Faure?

1 school nearby

Faure has 1 school within reach. Schools include St. Paul'S Primêre Skool.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs.Faure will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›
  • Q3
    St. Paul'S Primêre Skool
    Public · Grades R–7 · 103 learners · 12.9:1 learner-educator ratio
    No-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 Faure?

Limited connectivity

Faure has 5 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 ›

Limited connectivity
5 routes
25th percentile · 7 destinations
Blue downs, Eerste river, Malibu village, Mfuleni, Mitchells plain, Somerset west +1 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 Faure?

Moderate

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Faure in a median of 5 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 187 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 5-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
5
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
1st
Percentile
across Cape Town
15%
Resolved
same day
Empty conservancy tank (15%)Broken leading (6%)Water leak (5%)Residential Bin Application - 240L (5%)Street lights out (5%)
Service requests logged
187
Requests resolved
72% (135 of 187)
75% resolved within
15 days
90% resolved within
30 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

Below city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated?
0.0 per 1,000 households
Total complaints
182
Unresolved
29.0%

Top issues: Empty conservancy tank (28), Broken leading (11), Water leak (9)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Faure

Data available
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Total outstanding municipal debt in Faure is R4.7M as of May 2026.

R4.7M
total
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R2 431 961
Electricity
R0
Water
R1 382 056
Refuse
R171 093
Sewerage
R709 837
City-wide cleaning
R45 358
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 Faure?

Well served

Healthcare access

13 within 5km
Nearest public
Eerste River Clinic · Community Day Centre · 2.3 km
Nearest private
Melomed Mitchells Plain · Private Hospital · 8.1 km
Public facilities
13
Private facilities
0

This suburb has public healthcare access but no private facilities within 5 km.

The nearest fire station to Faure is Mfuleni, 2.6 km away. The nearest public pool is Khayelitsha Swimming Pool, 3.9 km away. The nearest clinic is Eerste River Clinic, 2.3 km away.

Nearest clinic
Eerste River Clinic · 2.3 km
Nearest library
Eersteriver · 2.3 km
Nearest park / open space
Old Faure Pos · 0.41 km

Fire station

2.6
km to nearest
fire station
Mfuleni
community station
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

3.9
km to nearest
public pool
2
pools
within 5 km
6
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Khayelitsha 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

Electric City952m · R790K
30→
Forest Village1.7km · R275K
29→
Hillcrest Heights1.7km · R740K
36→
Dreamworld1.7km
→
Eersterivier2.2km · R690K
25→
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Bordering suburbs

4 adjacent

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

CroydonCroydon Vineyard EstateEersterivier SouthMacassar

Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | 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).

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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