Mountainside Estate
A suburb with above-average property values and responsive municipal services relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Mountainside Estate is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, Cape Town, where property values sit in the middle-to-upper range for Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.
How is the area changing?
In Mountainside Estate, crime levels are stable 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 Mountainside Estate. In this area, the City typically resolves service complaints promptly. The suburb has several healthcare facilities within reasonable distance.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Mountainside Estate safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Mountainside Estate?
The median property value in Mountainside Estate is R2.3M. Property values have grown by 4.9% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R2,300,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +4.9% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 63rd percentile
- Dominant value band
- 1-1.5M
- 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 Mountainside Estate?
Development activity in Mountainside Estate
Mountainside Estate had 35 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 12 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.
- 3-year approvals
- 35
- Annual average
- 12/yr
- Avg project value
- R299K
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Mountainside Estate?
Mountainside Estate has 1 minibus taxi route.
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 Mountainside Estate?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Mountainside Estate in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 968 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 968
- Requests resolved
- 80% (778 of 968)
- 75% resolved within
- 6 days
- 90% resolved within
- 18 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 968
- Unresolved
- 20.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (125), Single street light out (99), Street lights out (56)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Mountainside Estate
Municipal debt in Mountainside Estate averages R8 092 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R1 803 079
- Electricity
- R277 025
- Water
- R650 620
- Refuse
- R198 031
- Sewerage
- R369 689
- City-wide cleaning
- R47 054
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Mountainside Estate?
Healthcare access
4 within 5km- Nearest public
- Gordon'S Bay CDC · Community Day Centre · 0.6 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 6.3 km
- Public facilities
- 4
- Private facilities
- 0
This suburb has public healthcare access but no private facilities within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Mountainside Estate is Sir Lowrys Pass, 5.4 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 6.6 km away. The nearest clinic is Gordon'S Bay Cdc, 0.6 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Gordon'S Bay Cdc · 0.6 km
- Nearest library
- Gordon'S Bay · 1.4 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Temperance Town Dam · 0.23 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
Nearby suburbs
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Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Mountainside Estate. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Facilities: March 2026 | Electricity: Jan 2024 - Feb 2026 | Water billing: Dec 2020 - Feb 2026 | Electricity 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 Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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Mountainside Estate, Cape Town