Woodlands
A suburb with higher reported crime, more affordable property values, and good school access relative to Cape Town.
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The neighbourhood
What's it like to live here?
Woodlands is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town, where property values place it among the more affordable areas in Cape Town. The area's safety profile is below the city average for reported safety. There are several places of worship in the area. The dominant commuter mode is minibus taxi.
How is the area changing?
In Woodlands, crime levels are stable based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have grown above inflation between valuation rolls.
What should buyers know?
Woodlands is well-served by schools, and matric results sit below the city average. In this area, service complaints are generally resolved within a few days. The suburb is well-served by nearby healthcare facilities.
Neighbourhood summary generated from StreetSignal data and reviewed by our team.
Is Woodlands safe?
39th percentile among 744 suburbs · based on precinct-level data shared with 12 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?
- 28 / 100
- Contact crime rate
- 603,187 per 100k residents
- Station population
- 88 238
- Harm rate (per resident)
- 27/100
- Harm volume (absolute)
- 29/100
- Data period
- Q4 2025/2026 (Jan–Mar 2026)
- Source
- SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Lentegeur precinct, which covers Woodlands 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 Woodlands?
Planned development
11 hectares of land in Woodlands are earmarked for new development across 1 parcel, primarily Low Density Residential (11ha).
Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development areas indicate planning designation, not construction timelines.
The median property value in Woodlands is R650K. Property values have grown by 9.0% per year since 2018.
- Median GV2022
- R650,000
- Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022)
- +9.0% per year↑ Growing
- City-wide value percentile
- 19th percentile
- Dominant value band
- 4-600k
- 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 Woodlands?
Development activity in Woodlands
Woodlands had 22 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 7 per year. Most were other approvals.
- 3-year approvals
- 22
- Annual average
- 7/yr
- Avg project value
- R452K
How are schools in Woodlands?
Woodlands has 5 schools within reach. The area matric pass rate is 82.0%, below the city median of 90.0%. Schools include Highlands Primary School.
- Adjusted pass rate
- 82.0%
- City median: 90.0%
- Schools contributing
- 2
- 247 candidates
- Median quintile
- Q5
- Q4-Q5
- Q5Highlands Primary SchoolQuintile 5School fees apply
- Q4Northwood Primary School
- Q4Woodville Primary School
- Q5Woodlands Secondary SchoolQuintile 5School fees apply
- Q5Princeton Secondary SchoolQuintile 5School fees apply
Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025
How connected is Woodlands?
Woodlands has 40 minibus taxi routes, including routes to the CBD. The most common way people get to work is by minibus taxi (39%).
Taxi connectivity
Commute mode share
- Dominant mode
- Minibus taxi (39%)
- Source
- CCT Household Survey 2024
Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024
What are living conditions in Woodlands?
Woodlands has a service delivery index of 95 out of 100, above the city median of 84.5. 86% of dwellings are formal structures.
Access to basic services
- Piped water
- 79.4%
- Flush toilet
- 100.0%
- Weekly refuse
- 100.0%
- Grid electricity
- 100.0%
Housing & tenure
- Formal dwellings
- 85.9%
- Owner-occupied
- 40.0%
- Rented
- 26.6%
Environmental risk
- Flooding risk
- 1.9%
- Fire risk
- 0.0%
- Violent crime
- 5.3%
- Non-violent crime
- 0.0%
Economic structure
- Food spending share
- 35.8%
- Share of income spent on food
City median: 35.3%
Comfortable, moderate discretionary income · 55th percentile - Hardship dimensions
- 2
- Areas of material need (out of 8)
- Grant income share
- 37.0%
- of households receiving grants
- Monthly savings
- R136
- Weighted mean per household
Digital inclusion
- Home fibre
- 63.3%
- City median: 46.5%
- Mobile only
- 31.3%
- No access
- 0.0%
Food security
- Adult food insecurity
- 6.9%
- City median: 18.3%
- Child food insecurity
- 2.6%
- City median: 13.0%
- Food insecurity prevalence
- 21.1%
- City median: 22.3%
Demographics & community
- Avg household size
- 3.7 people
- Avg children per household
- 1.2
Asset ownership
- Computer access
- 41.1%
- Fridge ownership
- 97.4%
- Property ownership
- 9.1%
- Geyser ownership
- 57.7%
- Borehole access
- 17.6%
Home-based economy
- Home-based business
- 7.7%
- of households operate a home-based business
- WFH full-time
- 1.6%
37% of electricity connections in Woodlands receive free basic electricity under the City's indigent support programme. Free basic electricity is a constitutional entitlement providing a monthly allocation to qualifying households. The proportion reflects the reach of the City's indigent support in this suburb, not a measure of poverty.
Source: CCT prepaid electricity data (2025/11/30 to 2026/01/31). Covers prepaid connections only. Credit-metered households are not included. 11,595 connections.
Source: City of Cape Town household survey · 2024
How responsive are municipal services in Woodlands?
The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Woodlands in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 6,942 service requests to the City of Cape Town.
City median: 1
across Cape Town
same day
- Service requests logged
- 6 942
- Requests resolved
- 75% (5 191 of 6 942)
- 75% resolved within
- 7 days
- 90% resolved within
- 20 days
- Source
- CCT service request database
Places of worship
Complaints & top issues
- Complaint rate How is this calculated?
- 842.4 per 1,000 households
- Total complaints
- 6 915
- Unresolved
- 25.0%
Top issues: Sewerage overflow (896), Single street light out (370), Power outage (352)
Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests
Municipal debt in Woodlands
Municipal debt in Woodlands averages R12 068 per account, compared to the city median of R8 815.
- Property rates
- R2 883 063
- Electricity
- R4 977 652
- Water
- R12 596 405
- Refuse
- R2 316 438
- Sewerage
- R4 023 953
- City-wide cleaning
- R48 303
- Improvement district
- R0
What services are near Woodlands?
Healthcare access
15 within 5km- Nearest public
- Lentegeur Clinic · Community Day Centre · 1.2 km
- Nearest private
- Melomed Mitchells Plain · Private Hospital · 2.9 km
- Public facilities
- 14
- Private facilities
- 1
This suburb has access to both public and private healthcare within 5 km.
The nearest fire station to Woodlands is Mitchells Plain, 1.0 km away. The nearest public pool is Lentegeur Swimming Pool, 1.0 km away. The nearest clinic is Lentegeur Clinic, 1.2 km away.
- Nearest clinic
- Lentegeur Clinic · 1.2 km
- Nearest library
- Lentegeur · 1.2 km
- Nearest park / open space
- Eros Way Park · 0.21 km
Fire station
fire station
category
Public swimming pools
public pool
within 5 km
within 10 km
- Nearest pool
- Lentegeur Swimming Pool
Source: City of Cape Town facility registry
Nearby suburbs
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Bordering suburbs
Suburbs that border or sit adjacent to Woodlands. Each has its own safety profile, property market, and service data.
Data as of: Safety: Q4 2025/2026 | Property: GV2022 | Schools: EMIS Q2 2025 | Matric: NSC 2025 | Household: CCT Survey Feb-Oct 2024 | Facilities: March 2026 | Development: DSDF January 2023 | 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).
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.
Department of Basic Education, EMIS (Western Cape Q2 2025; Gauteng Q3 2025). DBE EMIS masterlist and public school data, 2023-2025 [dataset]. Source. CC-BY 4.0.
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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Woodlands, Cape Town