Lagoon Beach
A suburb with moderate reported crime, responsive municipal services, and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.
Data current as of
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Lagoon Beach is a neighbourhood in Northern Suburbs, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is below the city average for reported safety. The dominant commuter mode is private vehicle.
How is the area changing?
In Lagoon Beach, 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 Lagoon Beach. 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 Lagoon Beach safe?
42nd percentile among 744 suburbs · precinct-level data, may not reflect this suburb · Data: Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026) · relative index, not an absolute safety measure
Detailed data
- Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated?
- 36 / 100Limited data — why?
- Contact crime rate
- 1,251,016 per 100k residents
- Station population
- 87 344
- Harm rate (per resident)
- 19/100
- Harm volume (absolute)
- 69/100
- Data period
- Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
- Source
- SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
The safety index shown above reflects the Milnerton precinct as a whole.Lagoon Beach's actual crime conditions may be better than this score suggests.
This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Milnerton precinct, which covers Lagoon Beach and surrounding suburbs. Reported crime may differ from actual crime levels.Full methodology
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Lagoon Beach?
Source: City of Cape Town GV2022
What do utilities cost in Lagoon Beach?
Development activity in Lagoon Beach
Lagoon Beach had 5 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
- 5
- Annual average
- 2/yr
- Avg project value
- R1.9M
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Lagoon Beach?
Lagoon Beach has 57 minibus taxi routes, including routes to the CBD. The most common way people get to work is by private vehicle (67%).
Taxi connectivity
Commute mode share
- Dominant mode
- Private vehicle (67%)
- Source
- CCT Household Survey 2024
Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024
What are living conditions in Lagoon Beach?
Lagoon Beach has a service delivery index of 99 out of 100, above the city median of 84.5. 100% of dwellings are formal structures.
Access to basic services
- Piped water
- 100.0%
- Flush toilet
- 94.8%
- Weekly refuse
- 100.0%
- Grid electricity
- 100.0%
Housing & tenure
- Formal dwellings
- 100.0%
- Owner-occupied
- 45.5%
- Rented
- 40.7%
Environmental risk
- Flooding risk
- 10.4%
- Fire risk
- 0.0%
- Violent crime
- 0.9%
- Non-violent crime
- 8.2%
Economic structure
- Food spending share
- 30.6%
- Share of income spent on food
City median: 35.3%
Comfortable, moderate discretionary income · 71st percentile - Hardship dimensions
- 0
- Areas of material need (out of 8)
- Grant income share
- 14.0%
- of households receiving grants
- Monthly savings
- R958
- Weighted mean per household
Digital inclusion
- Home fibre
- 90.2%
- City median: 46.5%
- Mobile only
- 4.6%
- No access
- 5.2%
Food security
- Adult food insecurity
- 0.9%
- City median: 18.3%
- Child food insecurity
- 0.9%
- City median: 13.0%
- Food insecurity prevalence
- 1.5%
- City median: 22.3%
Demographics & community
- Avg household size
- 3.2 people
- Avg children per household
- 0.7
Asset ownership
- Computer access
- 72.2%
- Fridge ownership
- 94.8%
- Property ownership
- 0.0%
- Geyser ownership
- 93.6%
- Borehole access
- 15.2%
Home-based economy
- Home-based business
- 25.4%
- of households operate a home-based business
- WFH full-time
- 3.0%
Source: City of Cape Town household survey · 2024
How responsive are municipal services in Lagoon Beach?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Lagoon Beach in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 221 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 221
- Requests resolved
- 77% (170 of 221)
- 75% resolved within
- 4 days
- 90% resolved within
- 14 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 1290.8 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 219
- Unresolved
- 23.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (32), Beach Cleaning (13), Street lights out (10)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Lagoon Beach
Total outstanding municipal debt in Lagoon Beach is R2.5M as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- R1 752 682
- Electricity
- R127 749
- Water
- R290 475
- Refuse
- R36 054
- Sewerage
- R208 332
- City-wide cleaning
- R47 837
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Lagoon Beach?
Healthcare access
10 within 5km- Nearest public
- Brooklyn Chest Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 0.7 km
- Nearest private
- Intercare Day Hospital Century City · Private Hospital · 2.9 km
- Public facilities
- 8
- Private facilities
- 2
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Lagoon Beach is Brooklyn, 2.5 km away. The nearest public pool is Kensington Swimming Pool, 3.9 km away. The nearest clinic is Brooklyn Chest Hospital, 0.7 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Brooklyn Chest Hospital · 0.7 km
- Nearest library
- Brooklyn · 1 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Marine Drive Pos · 0.05 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Kensington Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
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Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Lagoon Beach. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Safety: Q4 2025/2026 | Household: CCT Survey Feb-Oct 2024 | 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).
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 Household Survey 2024, 2024 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
City of Cape Town. CCT Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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Lagoon Beach, Cape Town