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Greenville Garden City

A suburb with more affordable property values relative to Cape Town.

Neighbourhood data for Greenville Garden City
Safety data not available. Property, school, and service data shown below.

What's it like to live here?

Greenville Garden City is a neighbourhood in Northern Suburbs, Cape Town, where property values place it among the more affordable areas in Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.

How is the area changing?

In Greenville Garden City, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property value growth has lagged behind inflation between valuation rolls.

What should buyers know?

Greenville Garden City is served by schools within reach. In this area, service complaints are generally resolved within a few days. The suburb has a healthcare facility within reach.

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 Greenville Garden City safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. greenville-garden-city makes up a very small share of the Kraaifontein 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 Greenville Garden City?

5th percentile

Planned development

698 hectares of land in Greenville Garden City are earmarked for new development across 1 parcel, primarily Medium Density Residential (698ha).

Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development areas indicate planning designation, not construction timelines.

The median property value in Greenville Garden City is R250K. Property values have grown by 3.3% per year since 2018.

A 3.3% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Greenville Garden City 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
R250,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
+3.3% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile
5th percentile
Dominant value band
2-400k
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 Greenville Garden City?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R21 / month
97% below city median
Electricity
This area is supplied by Eskom. City of Cape Town electricity billing data is not available.
Water trend:Dec 2025: R21Jan 2026: R27Feb 2026: -R96 (adj.)

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Greenville Garden City

↓ Decreasing

Greenville Garden City had 890 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 297 per year. Most were new residential builds.

3-year approvals
890
Annual average
297/yr
Avg project value
R267K

97% social housing97% of recent building plans in Greenville Garden City were for RDP or low-cost housing projects.

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 Greenville Garden City?

2 schools nearby

Greenville Garden City has 2 schools within reach. Schools include Fisantekraal Primary School.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs.Greenville Garden City will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›
  • Q1
    Fisantekraal Primary School
    Public · Grades R–7 · 1,215 learners · 39.2:1 learner-educator ratio
    No-fee school
  • Q1
    Aquila High School
    Public · Grades 8–12 · 625 learners · 27.2:1 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 RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Greenville Garden City?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Greenville Garden City in a median of 3 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 2,573 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
24%
Resolved
same day
Single street light out (13%)Stolen Bins - 240L (10%)Street lights out (10%)Debtors Account Correspondence (9%)Sewerage overflow (7%)
Service requests logged
2 573
Requests resolved
82% (2 102 of 2 573)
75% resolved within
7 days
90% resolved within
13 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
2 563
Unresolved
18.0%

Top issues: Single street light out (344), Stolen Bins - 240L (264), Street lights out (249)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Greenville Garden City

93% below city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Greenville Garden City averages R606 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R606
per account
93% below city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R603Apr 2026: R606May 2026: R617
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R733 229
Electricity
R0
Water
R513 340
Refuse
R145 146
Sewerage
R271 114
City-wide cleaning
R111 851
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 Greenville Garden City?

Some services nearby

Healthcare access

1 within 5km
Nearest public
Fisantekraal Clinic · Clinic · 1.5 km
Nearest private
Mediclinic Cape Gate · Private Hospital · 7.4 km
Public facilities
1
Private facilities
0

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

The nearest fire station to Greenville Garden City is Kraaifontein, 6.4 km away. The nearest public pool is Morning Star Swimming Pool, 8.3 km away. The nearest clinic is Fisantekraal Clinic, 1.5 km away.

Nearest clinic
Fisantekraal Clinic · 1.5 km
Nearest library
Fisantekraal · 1.5 km
Nearest park / open space
Naartjie Street Park · 0.89 km

Fire station

6.4
km to nearest
fire station
Kraaifontein
community station
5-10km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

8.3
km to nearest
public pool
0
pools
within 5 km
1
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Morning Star 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

Fisantekraal1.6km · R180K
Paarl Farms3.5km
42
Kraaifontein3.9km · R2M
26
Buh-Rein Estate4.1km · R1.7M
Joostenbergvlakte Smallholdings4.5km · R2.9M
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Bordering suburbs

4 adjacent

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

Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | Facilities: March 2026 | Development: DSDF January 2023 | 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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Greenville Garden City, Cape Town

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