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George Park

A suburb with well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

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

What's it like to live here?

George Park is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, 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 George Park, crime levels are stable based on the most recent quarterly comparison. No recent valuation trend data is available for this suburb.

What should buyers know?

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

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. george-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 George Park?

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in George Park?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R783 / month
19% above city median
Based on a small number of accounts
Electricity
Insufficient billing data for this suburb.
Water trend:Dec 2025: R1 061Jan 2026: R567Feb 2026: R783

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in George Park

↑ Increasing

George Park had 8 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 3 per year. Most were commercial or industrial builds.

3-year approvals
8
Annual average
3/yr
Avg project value
R2.7M

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 George Park?

Moderate connectivity

George Park has 17 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
17 routes
56th percentile · 13 destinations
Cassa blanca (strand), Gordons bay, Hottentots holland hospital, Lourensford & vergelegen, Lwandle, Rusthof +7 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 George Park?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in George Park in a median of 3 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 679 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 3-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
3
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
9th
Percentile
across Cape Town
26%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (21%)Illegal dumping (8%)Power outage (6%)Street lights out (5%)Stolen Bins - 240L (4%)
Service requests logged
679
Requests resolved
76% (513 of 679)
75% resolved within
7 days
90% resolved within
20 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
675
Unresolved
24.0%

Top issues: Sewerage overflow (144), Illegal dumping (55), Power outage (43)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in George Park

Data available
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Total outstanding municipal debt in George Park is R2.7M as of May 2026.

R2.7M
total
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R1 098 464
Electricity
R1 155 529
Water
R106 124
Refuse
R111 736
Sewerage
R179 389
City-wide cleaning
R3 573
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 George Park?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km
Nearest public
Fagan Street Clinic · Community Day Centre · 1.1 km
Nearest private
Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 0.8 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 George Park is Strand, 0.5 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 1.1 km away. The nearest clinic is Mediclinic Strand, 0.8 km away.

Nearest clinic
Mediclinic Strand · 0.8 km
Nearest library
Strand · 1.2 km
Nearest park / open space
Lynn Park · 0.14 km

Fire station

0.5
km to nearest
fire station
Strand
district hq - east
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

1.1
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

Strand411m · R1.7M
31
Twin Palms535m · R1.6M
54
Onverwacht - The Strand1.0km · R2M
41
Greenways1.2km · R4.6M
49
Broadlands Village1.5km · R810K
32
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Bordering suburbs

1 adjacent

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

Data as of: 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 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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