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Pearl Rise

A suburb with among the highest property values in Cape Town relative to Cape Town.

Neighbourhood data for Pearl Rise
Safety data not available. Property, school, and service data shown below.

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.

These statistics describe the suburb as a whole. Conditions vary between streets and neighbourhoods within any suburb.

For home buyers & families

Is Pearl Rise safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. pearl-rise makes up a very small share of the Somerset West police precinct, so we cannot reliably separate its crime data from the rest of the precinct. Rather than show a score that could be misleading, we have withheld it.

Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026

FOR BUYERS & INVESTORS

What do properties cost in Pearl Rise?

86th percentile

The median property value in Pearl Rise is R3.8M. Property values have grown by 4.4% per year since 2018.

A 4.4% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Pearl Rise properties (GV2022)

Property values are based on the City of Cape Town's 2022 General Valuation roll. GV is an assessed value for municipal rating purposes; transaction prices frequently exceed GV. Recent sales transaction data and rental market data are not available as open data in South Africa.

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

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in Pearl Rise?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R1 606 / month
144% above city median
Electricity
R2 347 / month
24% above median of CoCT-billed suburbs
Water trend:Dec 2025: R2 035Jan 2026: R1 606Feb 2026: R1 336
Electricity trend:Dec 2025: R2 430Jan 2026: R2 347Feb 2026: R2 096

Monthly cost per account from City of Cape Town billing data. Water coverage: 647 suburbs. Electricity coverage: 384 suburbs.

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Pearl Rise

↑ Increasing

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

Building plans approved by the City of Cape Town (2014-2025). Approvals indicate planned investment, not completed construction. This data reflects formal building activity only and does not capture informal construction, backyard dwellings, or building work undertaken without a formal plan submission. In areas with high informality, actual construction activity may be substantially higher than these figures suggest. Source: CoCT Building Development Management (DAMS).

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is Pearl Rise?

Low connectivity

Pearl Rise has 2 minibus taxi routes.

Taxi connectivityRanks this suburb's taxi route access against all 744 Cape Town suburbs. Based on routes matched by name and within 500m of suburb centre. Large suburbs may have higher actual connectivity than shown.Full methodology ›

Low connectivity
2 routes
7th percentile · 4 destinations
Hottentots holland hospital, Rue mount pellar(somerset west), Somerset west, Strand
Based on CCT minibus taxi route data. Routes matched by name and spatial proximity (500m). Methodology ›

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

FOR RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Pearl Rise?

Responsive

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.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 3-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
3
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
12th
Percentile
across Cape Town
24%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (17%)Power outage (16%)Burst pipe (8%)No supply (8%)Single street light out (4%)
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
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Below city average
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 FINANCE

Municipal debt in Pearl Rise

19% below city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Pearl Rise averages R7 166 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R7 166
per account
19% below city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R7 166Apr 2026: R7 210May 2026: R5 048
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R185 368
Electricity
R136 668
Water
R58 253
Refuse
R21 225
Sewerage
R41 264
City-wide cleaning
R21 591
Improvement district
R0

Outstanding municipal arrears from City of Cape Town financial records. Coverage: 741 suburbs. Per-account figures available for 582 suburbs.

FOR FAMILIES

What services are near Pearl Rise?

Some services nearby

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

2
km to nearest
fire station
Somerset West
community station
within-5km
response
category

Cape Town has 32 fire stations serving 744 suburbs. Source: CCT open data.

Public swimming pools

5.9
km to nearest
public pool
0
pools
within 5 km
1
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Strand Swimming Pool

Cape Town operates 35 public swimming pools. Source: CCT open data.

Distances straight-line from suburb centroid.

Source: City of Cape Town facility registry

Nearby suburbs

Goede Hoop201m · R4M
Pearl Marina347m · R3.6M
Montchere476m · R4.2M
Briza501m · R3.3M
100
Highveld535m · R4.4M
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Bordering suburbs

6 adjacent

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).

Data sources & legal attribution
SAPS Crime StatsCCT Open DataStats SACCT Service Requests

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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