Paarden Eiland
A suburb with well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Paarden Eiland is a neighbourhood in Northern Suburbs, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.
How is the area changing?
In Paarden Eiland, crime is rising 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 Paarden Eiland. In this area, service complaints are generally resolved within a few days. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Paarden Eiland safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Paarden Eiland?
Source: City of Cape Town GV2022
What do utilities cost in Paarden Eiland?
Development activity in Paarden Eiland
Paarden Eiland 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
- R11.3M
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Paarden Eiland?
Paarden Eiland has 48 minibus taxi routes, including routes to the CBD.
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 Paarden Eiland?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Paarden Eiland in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 2,604 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 2 604
- Requests resolved
- 76% (1 967 of 2 604)
- 75% resolved within
- 6 days
- 90% resolved within
- 14 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 2854500.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 2 595
- Unresolved
- 25.0%
Top issues: Street lights out (295), Sewerage overflow (257), Power outage (234)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Paarden Eiland
Total outstanding municipal debt in Paarden Eiland is R17.8M as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- R5 874 441
- Electricity
- R10 939 005
- Water
- -R348 284 (credit)
- Refuse
- R569 780
- Sewerage
- R735 322
- City-wide cleaning
- R5 234
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Paarden Eiland?
Healthcare access
18 within 5km- Nearest public
- Maitland Clinic · Community Day Centre · 1.9 km
- Nearest private
- Uct Private Academic Hospital · Private Hospital · 3.4 km
- Public facilities
- 13
- Private facilities
- 5
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Paarden Eiland is Brooklyn, 0.9 km away. The nearest public pool is Observatory Swimming Pool, 3.3 km away. The nearest clinic is Maitland Clinic, 1.9 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Maitland Clinic · 1.9 km
- Nearest library
- Maitland · 1.8 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Calcutta Greenbelt · 0.25 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Observatory Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
Nearby suburbs
Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Paarden Eiland. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Related articles
Data as of: Facilities: March 2026 | Electricity: Jan 2024 - 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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Paarden Eiland, Cape Town