Smartie Town
A suburb with more affordable property values and well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.
The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Smartie Town is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, Cape Town, where property values place it among the more affordable areas in Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.
How is the area changing?
In Smartie Town, 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 Smartie Town. 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 Smartie Town safe?
Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q4 2025/2026
What do properties cost in Smartie Town?
The median property value in Smartie Town is R400K. Property values have grown by 22.6% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R400,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +22.6% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 12th percentile
- Dominant value band
- 0-200k
- 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 Smartie Town?
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Smartie Town?
Smartie Town has 16 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 Smartie Town?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Smartie Town in a median of 2.5 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 86 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 86
- Requests resolved
- 72% (62 of 86)
- 75% resolved within
- 9 days
- 90% resolved within
- 19 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 0.0 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 86
- Unresolved
- 28.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (39), Stolen Bins - 240L (6), Leak at meter/stopcock 20mm below (6)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Smartie Town
Municipal debt in Smartie Town averages R3 530 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R28 402
- Electricity
- R0
- Water
- R156 849
- Refuse
- R36 881
- Sewerage
- R67 513
- City-wide cleaning
- R303
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Smartie Town?
Healthcare access
4 within 5km- Nearest public
- Macassar Clinic · Clinic · 1.4 km
- Nearest private
- Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 10.2 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 Smartie Town is Macassar, 1.4 km away. The nearest public pool is Khayelitsha Swimming Pool, 6.9 km away. The nearest clinic is Macassar Clinic, 1.4 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Macassar Clinic · 1.4 km
- Nearest library
- Macassar · 1.4 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Carnation Greenbelt · 0.06 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Khayelitsha Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
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Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Smartie Town. 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 | 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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Smartie Town, Cape Town