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Winslow

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

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

What's it like to live here?

Winslow is a neighbourhood in Helderberg, 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.

How is the area changing?

In Winslow, crime levels are stable 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 Winslow. In this area, the City typically resolves service complaints promptly. 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 Winslow safe?

Safety index suppressed
Insufficient data. winslow makes up a very small share of the Gordons Bay 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 Winslow?

50th percentile

The median property value in Winslow is R1.8M. 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 – Winslow 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
R1,785,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
+4.4% per year↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile
50th 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 Winslow?

Computed from City of Cape Town billing data
Water
R641 / month
3% below city median
Electricity
R1 689 / month
11% below median of CoCT-billed suburbs
Based on a small number of accounts
Water trend:Dec 2025: R824Jan 2026: R641Feb 2026: R608
Electricity trend:Dec 2025: R1 934Jan 2026: R1 672Feb 2026: R1 689

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in Winslow

↑ Increasing

Winslow had 18 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 6 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.

3-year approvals
18
Annual average
6/yr
Avg project value
R333K

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 Winslow?

Limited connectivity

Winslow has 8 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 ›

Limited connectivity
8 routes
33rd percentile · 9 destinations
Gordons bay, Koggelbaai, Lwandle, Sir lowrys pass town, Somerset mall,somerset west, Somerset west +3 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 Winslow?

Highly responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Winslow in a median of 1 day, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 591 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 Winslow residents experience responsive municipal service – a signal of well-maintained infrastructure and efficient complaint routing.
1
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
98th
Percentile
across Cape Town
31%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (14%)Single street light out (12%)Power outage (7%)Stolen Bins - 240L (4%)Street lights out (3%)
Service requests logged
591
Requests resolved
82% (486 of 591)
75% resolved within
6 days
90% resolved within
23 days
Source
CCT service request database
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Above city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated?
5369.3 per 1,000 households
Total complaints
589
Unresolved
18.0%

Top issues: Sewerage overflow (80), Single street light out (70), Power outage (43)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in Winslow

15% above city median
Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Municipal debt in Winslow averages R10 161 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.

R10 161
per account
15% above city median
Trend:Mar 2026: R10 459Apr 2026: R10 161May 2026: R7 003
Breakdown as of May 2026
Property rates
R420 122
Electricity
R347 624
Water
R80 124
Refuse
R52 178
Sewerage
R50 094
City-wide cleaning
R9 237
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 Winslow?

Some services nearby

Healthcare access

3 within 5km
Nearest public
Gordon'S Bay CDC · Community Day Centre · 0.7 km
Nearest private
Mediclinic Strand · Private Hospital · 5.4 km
Public facilities
3
Private facilities
0

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

The nearest fire station to Winslow is Strand, 4.8 km away. The nearest public pool is Strand Swimming Pool, 5.5 km away. The nearest clinic is Gordon'S Bay Cdc, 0.7 km away.

Nearest clinic
Gordon'S Bay Cdc · 0.7 km
Nearest library
Gordon'S Bay · 0.4 km
Nearest park / open space
Ananchorage Park Greenbelt · 0.12 km

Fire station

4.8
km to nearest
fire station
Strand
district hq - east
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

5.5
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

Protea Park - Gordon's Bay336m
51
Dobson525m · R1.9M
100
Sea Breeze Park585m · R1.4M
100
Mountainside586m · R2.9M
Anchorage Park618m · R1.6M
100
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Bordering suburbs

8 adjacent

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

Data as of: Property: GV2022 | Facilities: March 2026 | Electricity: Jan 2024 - Feb 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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