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Sandvlei

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

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

For home buyers & families

Is Sandvlei safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. sandvlei makes up a very small share of the Macassar 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 Sandvlei?

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in Sandvlei?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R596 / month
9% below city median
Electricity
This area is supplied by Eskom. City of Cape Town electricity billing data is not available.
Water trend:Dec 2025: R1 126Jan 2026: R596Feb 2026: R427

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

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is Sandvlei?

Low connectivity

Sandvlei has 1 minibus taxi route.

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
1 route
0th percentile · 2 destinations
Lwandle, Sandvlei
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 Sandvlei?

Moderate

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Sandvlei in a median of 4 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 420 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 4-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
4
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
6th
Percentile
across Cape Town
11%
Resolved
same day
Empty conservancy tank (57%)Street lights out (6%)Burst pipe (4%)Water leak (3%)Sewerage overflow (3%)
Service requests logged
420
Requests resolved
76% (319 of 420)
75% resolved within
8 days
90% resolved within
18 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
419
Unresolved
24.0%

Top issues: Empty conservancy tank (240), Street lights out (26), Burst pipe (15)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Sandvlei

936% above city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Sandvlei averages R91 312 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R91 312
per account
936% above city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R90 197Apr 2026: R91 312May 2026: R92 360
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R2 881 459
Electricity
R0
Water
R3 412 034
Refuse
R320 796
Sewerage
R149 260
City-wide cleaning
R71 055
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 Sandvlei?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km
Nearest public
Luvuyo CDC · Community Day Centre · 2.3 km
Nearest private
Melomed Mitchells Plain · Private Hospital · 10.2 km
Public facilities
6
Private facilities
0

This suburb has public healthcare access but no private facilities within 5 km.

The nearest fire station to Sandvlei is Macassar, 2.9 km away. The nearest public pool is Khayelitsha Swimming Pool, 5.4 km away. The nearest clinic is Luvuyo Cdc, 2.3 km away.

Nearest clinic
Luvuyo Cdc · 2.3 km
Nearest library
Nazeema Isaacs · 2.8 km
Nearest park / open space
Carnation Greenbelt · 1.3 km

Fire station

2.9
km to nearest
fire station
Macassar
community station
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

5.4
km to nearest
public pool
0
pools
within 5 km
3
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Khayelitsha 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

Macassar1.2km · R680K
30
Smartie Town1.5km · R400K
Macassar Village1.7km · R332K
Bell Glen1.8km · R540K
New Macassar2.2km · R550K
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Bordering suburbs

1 adjacent

Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Sandvlei. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.

Data as of: Facilities: March 2026 | Water 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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