Mandela Park
A suburb with higher reported crime, more affordable property values, and strong school performance relative to Cape Town.
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The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Mandela Park is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values place it among the more affordable areas in Cape Town. The area's safety profile is among the more challenging areas for reported safety in Cape Town. There is a strong presence of places of worship serving the community.
How is the area changing?
In Mandela Park, crime levels are stable based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have broadly tracked inflation between valuation rolls. The suburb is within a City-designated Development Focus Area, signalling future investment and infrastructure priorities.
What should buyers know?
Mandela Park is well-served by schools, and matric results exceed the city average by a comfortable margin. In this area, service complaint resolution takes around a week on average. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Mandela Park safe?
27th percentile among 744 suburbs · Data: Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026) · relative index, not an absolute safety measure
Detailed data
- Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated?
- 12 / 100
- Contact crime rate
- 1,576,942 per 100k residents
- Station population
- 63 292
- Harm rate (per resident)
- 8/100
- Harm volume (absolute)
- 18/100
- Data period
- Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
- Source
- SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Harare precinct, which covers Mandela Park 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 Mandela Park?
City of Cape Town Development Focus Area
Mandela Park is within the Khayelitsha CBD development focus area. The City of Cape Town has designated this area as a development priority, signalling committed public investment in infrastructure, services, and economic opportunity.
Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development focus areas indicate City planning intent, not guaranteed timelines.
Planned development
9 hectares of land in Mandela Park are earmarked for new development across 4 parcels, primarily High Density Residential (7ha) and Low Density Residential (2ha).
Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development areas indicate planning designation, not construction timelines.
The median property value in Mandela Park is R300K. Property values have grown by 5.2% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R300,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +5.2% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 7th 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
What do utilities cost in Mandela Park?
Development activity in Mandela Park
Mandela Park had 31 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 10 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.
- 3-year approvals
- 31
- Annual average
- 10/yr
- Avg project value
- R702K
3% social housing3% of recent building plans in Mandela Park were for RDP or low-cost housing projects.
How are schools in Mandela Park?
Mandela Park has 6 schools within reach. The area matric pass rate is 95.4%, above the city median of 90.0%. Schools include Thembelihle High School.
- Adjusted pass rate
- 95.4%
- City median: 90.0%
- Schools contributing
- 3
- 632 candidates
- Median quintile
- Q3
- Q3
- Q2Thembelihle High SchoolNo-fee school
- Q3Nomsa Mapongwana Primary SchoolNo-fee school
- Q3Chuma Public Primary SchoolNo-fee school
- Q3Sivuyiseni Public Primary SchoolNo-fee school
- Q3Uxolo High SchoolNo-fee school
- Q3Sizimisele Secondary SchoolNo-fee school
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Mandela Park?
Mandela Park has 3 minibus taxi routes.
Taxi connectivity
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
How responsive are municipal services in Mandela Park?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Mandela Park in a median of 4 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 4,828 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 4 828
- Requests resolved
- 82% (3 952 of 4 828)
- 75% resolved within
- 9 days
- 90% resolved within
- 21 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Places of worship
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 548.1 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 4 789
- Unresolved
- 18.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (1 121), Stolen Bins - 240L (697), Broken leading (395)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Mandela Park
Municipal debt in Mandela Park averages R6 558 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R6 565 346
- Electricity
- R134 507
- Water
- R14 269 103
- Refuse
- R3 883 319
- Sewerage
- R5 688 855
- City-wide cleaning
- R144 377
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Mandela Park?
Healthcare access
12 within 5km- Nearest public
- Khayelitsha Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 0.9 km
- Nearest private
- Melomed Mitchells Plain · Private Hospital · 5.6 km
- Public facilities
- 12
- Private facilities
- 0
This suburb has public healthcare access but no private facilities within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Mandela Park is Khayelitsha, 0.2 km away. The nearest public pool is Khayelitsha Swimming Pool, 0.8 km away. The nearest clinic is Khayelitsha Hospital, 0.9 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Khayelitsha Hospital · 0.9 km
- Nearest library
- Kuyasa Library · 1.1 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Mandela Smart Park · 0.23 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Khayelitsha Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
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Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Mandela Park. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
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Data as of: Safety: Q4 2025/2026 | Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | Matric: NSC 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).
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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