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Gants Park

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

Neighbourhood data for Gants Park
Safety data not available. Property, school, and service data shown below.
Schools1nearbyHealthcare7 facilitiesmore access than most suburbsCouncilBelow avg complaints1d median resolutionTransportMinibus taxi coveragewell-connected area

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

For home buyers & families

Is Gants Park safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. gants-park makes up a very small share of the Strand 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 Gants Park?

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in Gants Park?

Utility billing data is not available for Gants Park. 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.

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Gants Park

→ Stable

Gants Park had 6 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 2 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.

3-year approvals
6
Annual average
2/yr
Avg project value
R207K

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 Gants Park?

1 school nearby

Gants Park has 1 school within reach. Schools include New Haven Academy.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs.Gants Park will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›
  • IND
    New Haven Academy
    Independent · Grades R–12 · 59 learners · 9.8:1 learner-educator ratio
    PrivateFavourable 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 Gants Park?

Connected

Gants Park has 19 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 ›

Connected
19 routes
60th percentile · 17 destinations
Cassablanca, Firgrove, Helderberg (via heldervue), Heldervue (somerset west), Khayelitsha, Lourens street(somerset west) +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 Gants Park?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Gants Park in a median of 1.5 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 559 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 1.5-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
1.5
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
48th
Percentile
across Cape Town
35%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (14%)Power outage (11%)No supply (5%)Stolen Bins - 240L (4%)E - Billing Invoices (3%)
Service requests logged
559
Requests resolved
82% (456 of 559)
75% resolved within
7 days
90% resolved within
21 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
558
Unresolved
18.0%

Top issues: Sewerage overflow (79), Power outage (63), No supply (26)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Gants Park

Data available
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Total outstanding municipal debt in Gants Park is R2.4M as of May 2026.

R2.4M
total
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R983 649
Electricity
R1 065 463
Water
R102 839
Refuse
R111 110
Sewerage
R137 297
City-wide cleaning
R417
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 Gants Park?

Well served

Healthcare access

7 within 5km
Nearest public
Somerset West CDC · Community Day Centre · 1.2 km
Nearest private
Mediclinic Vergelegen · Private Hospital · 1.6 km
Public facilities
5
Private facilities
2

This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.

The nearest fire station to Gants Park is Somerset West, 1.1 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 2.9 km away. The nearest clinic is Somerset West Cdc, 1.2 km away.

Nearest clinic
Somerset West Cdc · 1.2 km
Nearest library
Somerset West · 1.4 km
Nearest park / open space
Lourens River Greenbelt · 0.39 km

Fire station

1.1
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

2.9
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

Strandvale429m · R2M
100→
Humanshof591m · R2M
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Bridgebank775m · R2.4M
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Silvertas837m · R1.1M
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Helderzicht896m · R1.3M
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Bordering suburbs

5 adjacent

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

HumanshofSomerset WestStrandStrandvaleVan Der Stel

Data as of: Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | 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 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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