Pearl Rise
A suburb with among the highest property values in Cape Town relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Pearl Rise 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 Pearl Rise, 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 Pearl Rise. In this area, service complaints are generally resolved within a few days. The suburb has several healthcare facilities within reasonable distance.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Pearl Rise safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Pearl Rise?
The median property value in Pearl Rise is R3.8M. Property values have grown by 4.4% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R3,800,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +4.4% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 86th percentile
- Dominant value band
- 2.5-3M
- 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 Pearl Rise?
Development activity in Pearl Rise
Pearl Rise had 9 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 3 per year. Most were other approvals.
- 3-year approvals
- 9
- Annual average
- 3/yr
- Avg project value
- R250K
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Pearl Rise?
Pearl Rise has 2 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 Pearl Rise?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Pearl Rise in a median of 3 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 377 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 377
- Requests resolved
- 75% (282 of 377)
- 75% resolved within
- 11 days
- 90% resolved within
- 34 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 373
- Unresolved
- 25.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (63), Power outage (61), Burst pipe (31)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Pearl Rise
Municipal debt in Pearl Rise averages R7 166 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R185 368
- Electricity
- R136 668
- Water
- R58 253
- Refuse
- R21 225
- Sewerage
- R41 264
- City-wide cleaning
- R21 591
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Pearl Rise?
Healthcare access
3 within 5km- Nearest public
- Helderberg Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 1.5 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Vergelegen · Private Hospital · 2.8 km
- Public facilities
- 2
- Private facilities
- 1
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Pearl Rise is Somerset West, 2.0 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 5.9 km away. The nearest clinic is Helderberg Hospital, 1.5 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Helderberg Hospital · 1.5 km
- Nearest library
- Somerset West · 1.8 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Louis Botha Avenue Park · 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 Pearl Rise. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Facilities: March 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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Pearl Rise, Cape Town