Fernwood
A suburb with above-average property values, strong school performance, and responsive municipal services relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Fernwood 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.
How is the area changing?
In Fernwood, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property value growth has lagged behind inflation between valuation rolls.
What should buyers know?
Fernwood is served by schools within reach, and matric results are broadly in line with the city average. In this area, the City typically resolves service complaints promptly. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Fernwood safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Fernwood?
The median property value in Fernwood is R2.4M. Property values have grown by 3.5% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R2,350,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +3.5% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 64th 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
What do utilities cost in Fernwood?
Development activity in Fernwood
Fernwood had 22 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 7 per year. Most were other approvals.
- 3-year approvals
- 22
- Annual average
- 7/yr
- Avg project value
- R358K
How are schools in Fernwood?
Fernwood has 1 school within reach. The area matric pass rate is 92.0%, above the city median of 90.0%. Schools include Hope And Light Community Welfare (Npc).
- Adjusted pass rate
- 92.0%
- City median: 90.0%
- Schools contributing
- 1
- 19 candidates
- Median quintile
- Q4
- Q4-Q5
- INDHope And Light Community Welfare (Npc)PrivateFavourable class size
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Fernwood?
Fernwood has 13 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 Fernwood?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Fernwood in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 258 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 258
- Requests resolved
- 84% (216 of 258)
- 75% resolved within
- 3 days
- 90% resolved within
- 13 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 258
- Unresolved
- 16.0%
Top issues: Power outage (26), No supply (23), Street lights out (19)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Fernwood
Total outstanding municipal debt in Fernwood is R1M as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- R428 513
- Electricity
- R149 438
- Water
- R162 877
- Refuse
- R172 648
- Sewerage
- R109 384
- City-wide cleaning
- R21 120
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Fernwood?
Healthcare access
8 within 5km- Nearest public
- Ikwezi CDC · Community Day Centre · 1.1 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Vergelegen · Private Hospital · 2.1 km
- Public facilities
- 6
- Private facilities
- 2
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Fernwood is Sir Lowrys Pass, 0.6 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 4.3 km away. The nearest clinic is Ikwezi Cdc, 1.1 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Ikwezi Cdc · 1.1 km
- Nearest library
- Lwandle · 1.6 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Platinum Street Park · 0.48 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
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Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Fernwood. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | Matric: NSC 2025 | Facilities: March 2026 | Electricity: Jan 2024 - Feb 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 Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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Fernwood, Cape Town