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Shirley Park

A suburb with responsive municipal services and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

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

What's it like to live here?

Shirley Park is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values are moderate by Cape Town standards. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety. There is a place of worship in the area.

How is the area changing?

In Shirley Park, crime is rising based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have grown above inflation between valuation rolls.

What should buyers know?

School and matric pass rate data is limited for Shirley Park. In this area, the City typically resolves service complaints promptly. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.

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 Shirley Park safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. shirley-park makes up a very small share of the Bellville 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 Shirley Park?

46th percentile

The median property value in Shirley Park is R1.6M. Property values have grown by 6.3% per year since 2018.

A 6.3% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Shirley Park 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
R1,650,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
+6.3% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile
46th percentile
Dominant value band
1-1.5M
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 Shirley Park?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R641 / month
3% below city median
Electricity
R1 552 / month
18% below median of CoCT-billed suburbs
Based on a small number of accounts
Water trend:Dec 2025: R776Jan 2026: R460Feb 2026: R641
Electricity trend:Dec 2025: R1 302Jan 2026: R1 552Feb 2026: R1 696

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Shirley Park

→ Stable

Shirley Park had 4 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 1 per year. Most were new residential builds.

3-year approvals
4
Annual average
1/yr
Avg project value
R258K

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 Shirley Park?

Connected

Shirley Park has 31 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 ›

Connected
31 routes
74th percentile · 24 destinations
Routes pass through Shirley Park but may not originate or terminate here. Connectivity index reflects geographic proximity to route corridors.
7th avenue mitchells plain, Atlantis(wesfleur), Bellville, Bellville railway station, Blackheath, Brentwood park +18 more
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 Shirley Park?

Highly responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Shirley Park in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 237 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Infrastructure problems get fixed fast. The median resolution under one day means Shirley Park residents experience responsive municipal service – a signal of well-maintained infrastructure and efficient complaint routing.
1
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
88th
Percentile
across Cape Town
29%
Resolved
same day
Single street light out (9%)Sewerage overflow (9%)Damaged Bin - 240L (8%)Power outage (7%)Dunning Investigations / Final Accounts (3%)
Service requests logged
237
Requests resolved
76% (179 of 237)
75% resolved within
5 days
90% resolved within
19 days
Source
CCT service request database
Community & faith

Places of worship

1 registered
Christian
1

Places of worship per suburb from City of Cape Town open data, supplemented with OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Coverage: 373 of 744 suburbs.

Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Near city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated?
1980.0 per 1,000 households
Total complaints
237
Unresolved
24.0%

Top issues: Single street light out (22), Sewerage overflow (21), Damaged Bin - 240L (20)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Shirley Park

41% below city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Shirley Park averages R5 202 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R5 202
per account
41% below city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R5 320Apr 2026: R5 125May 2026: R5 202
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R160 457
Electricity
R168 119
Water
R119 772
Refuse
R43 969
Sewerage
R50 822
City-wide cleaning
R8 224
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 Shirley Park?

Well served

Healthcare access

12 within 5km
Nearest public
Stikland Psychiatric Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 1.9 km
Nearest private
Netcare Kuils River Hospital · Private Hospital · 1.7 km
Public facilities
8
Private facilities
4

This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.

The nearest fire station to Shirley Park is Bellville, 2.2 km away. The nearest public pool is Bellville South Swimming Pool, 2.3 km away. The nearest clinic is Netcare Kuils River Hospital, 1.7 km away.

Nearest clinic
Netcare Kuils River Hospital · 1.7 km
Nearest library
Bellville South · 2 km
Nearest park / open space
Barlinka Road Park · 0.02 km

Fire station

2.2
km to nearest
fire station
Bellville
district hq - north
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

2.3
km to nearest
public pool
2
pools
within 5 km
11
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool
Bellville South 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

Meyerhof232m · R1.8M
Loumar477m · R1.6M
Labiance540m · R1.9M
40
Sirrocco's780m · R1.5M
Marinda Park971m · R1.5M
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Bordering suburbs

2 adjacent

Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Shirley Park. 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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