Protea Park - Gordon's Bay
A suburb with moderate reported crime relative to Cape Town.
Data current as of
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Protea Park - Gordon's Bay is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is around or above the city median for reported safety. The dominant commuter mode is private vehicle.
How is the area changing?
In Protea Park - Gordon's Bay, crime levels are stable 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 Protea Park - Gordon's Bay. 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 Protea Park - Gordon's Bay safe?
97th percentile among 744 suburbs · based on precinct-level data shared with 20 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?
- 51 / 100
- Contact crime rate
- 58,439 per 100k residents
- Station population
- 19 851
- Harm rate (per resident)
- 49/100
- Harm volume (absolute)
- 54/100
- Data period
- Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
- Source
- SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Gordons Bay precinct, which covers Protea Park - Gordon's Bay 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 Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
Source: City of Cape Town GV2022
What do utilities cost in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
Protea Park - Gordon's Bay has 3 minibus taxi routes. The most common way people get to work is by private vehicle (84%).
Taxi connectivity
Commute mode share
- Dominant mode
- Private vehicle (84%)
- Source
- CCT Household Survey 2024
Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024
What are living conditions in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
Protea Park - Gordon's Bay has a service delivery index of 99 out of 100, above the city median of 84.5. 99% of dwellings are formal structures.
Access to basic services
- Piped water
- 99.0%
- Flush toilet
- 99.0%
- Weekly refuse
- 97.3%
- Grid electricity
- 100.0%
Housing & tenure
- Formal dwellings
- 99.0%
- Owner-occupied
- 63.0%
- Rented
- 25.3%
Environmental risk
- Flooding risk
- 4.3%
- Fire risk
- 0.0%
- Violent crime
- 1.7%
- Non-violent crime
- 0.0%
Economic structure
- Food spending share
- 32.3%
- Share of income spent on food
City median: 35.3%
Comfortable, moderate discretionary income · 67th percentile - Hardship dimensions
- 1
- Areas of material need (out of 8)
- Grant income share
- 23.0%
- of households receiving grants
- Monthly savings
- R406
- Weighted mean per household
Digital inclusion
- Home fibre
- 82.8%
- City median: 46.5%
- Mobile only
- 13.8%
- No access
- 1.7%
Food security
- Adult food insecurity
- 2.8%
- City median: 18.3%
- Child food insecurity
- 2.8%
- City median: 13.0%
- Food insecurity prevalence
- 7.6%
- City median: 22.3%
Demographics & community
- Avg household size
- 2.5 people
- Avg children per household
- 0.6
Asset ownership
- Computer access
- 67.1%
- Fridge ownership
- 93.7%
- Property ownership
- 1.7%
- Geyser ownership
- 75.0%
- Borehole access
- 4.0%
Home-based economy
- Home-based business
- 13.1%
- of households operate a home-based business
- WFH part-time
- 4.3%
Source: City of Cape Town household survey · 2024
How responsive are municipal services in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay in a median of 3 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 16 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 16
- Requests resolved
- 81% (13 of 16)
- 75% resolved within
- 7 days
- 90% resolved within
- 16 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 16
- Unresolved
- 19.0%
Top issues: Single street light out (4), Sewerage overflow (2), Customer phone in reading (2)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay
Total outstanding municipal debt in Protea Park - Gordon's Bay is R38K as of May 2026.
- Property rates
- -R216 267 (credit)
- Electricity
- R359 302
- Water
- -R59 306 (credit)
- Refuse
- -R3 679 (credit)
- Sewerage
- -R41 746 (credit)
- City-wide cleaning
- R0
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Protea Park - Gordon's Bay?
Healthcare access
4 within 5km- Nearest public
- Gordon'S Bay CDC · Community Day Centre · 0.4 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 5.5 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 Protea Park - Gordon's Bay is Strand, 4.8 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 5.6 km away. The nearest clinic is Gordon'S Bay Cdc, 0.4 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Gordon'S Bay Cdc · 0.4 km
- Nearest library
- Gordon'S Bay · 0.7 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Neptune Park · 0.18 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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Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Protea Park - Gordon's Bay. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Safety: Q4 2025/2026 | Household: CCT Survey Feb-Oct 2024 | Facilities: March 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 Household Survey 2024, 2024 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
City of Cape Town. CCT Service Requests (C3), 2025–2026 [dataset]. CCT Open Data Policy 27781.
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Protea Park - Gordon's Bay, Cape Town