High Riding
A suburb with among the highest property values in Cape Town relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
High Riding is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, Cape Town, where property values sit in the upper quartile for Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.
How is the area changing?
In High Riding, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have broadly tracked inflation between valuation rolls.
What should buyers know?
School and matric pass rate data is limited for High Riding. In this area, service complaint resolution takes around a week on average. The suburb has several healthcare facilities within reasonable distance.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is High Riding safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in High Riding?
The median property value in High Riding is R5M. Property values have grown by 5.1% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R5,000,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +5.1% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 93rd percentile
- Dominant value band
- 3-3.5M
- 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 High Riding?
Development activity in High Riding
High Riding had 20 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 7 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.
- 3-year approvals
- 20
- Annual average
- 7/yr
- Avg project value
- R619K
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How responsive are municipal services in High Riding?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in High Riding in a median of 4 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 325 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 325
- Requests resolved
- 87% (282 of 325)
- 75% resolved within
- 10 days
- 90% resolved within
- 30 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 325
- Unresolved
- 13.0%
Top issues: Empty conservancy tank (293), Sewerage overflow (11), Customer rebate request (4)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in High Riding
Total outstanding municipal debt in High Riding is R1.4M as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- R1 247 795
- Electricity
- R0
- Water
- R69 479
- Refuse
- R13 121
- Sewerage
- R12 380
- City-wide cleaning
- R48 498
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near High Riding?
Healthcare access
3 within 5km- Nearest public
- Sir Lowrys Pass CDC · Community Day Centre · 1 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Vergelegen · Private Hospital · 6.6 km
- Public facilities
- 3
- Private facilities
- 0
This suburb has public healthcare access but no private facilities within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to High Riding is Sir Lowrys Pass, 4.1 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 8.0 km away. The nearest clinic is Sir Lowrys Pass Cdc, 1.0 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Sir Lowrys Pass Cdc · 1 km
- Nearest library
- Sir Lowry'S Pass · 1 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Sir Lowry's Pass Pos · 0.24 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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Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to High Riding. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Property: GV2022 | 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).
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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High Riding, Cape Town