WP Showgrounds

A suburb with well-connected public transport relative to Cape Town.

Neighbourhood data for WP Showgrounds

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

Healthcare17 facilitiesmore access than most suburbs CouncilAbove avg complaints2d median resolution TransportMinibus taxi coveragewell-connected area

The neighbourhood

What's it like to live here?

WP Showgrounds is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is well above the city average for reported safety.

How is the area changing?

In WP Showgrounds, crime is rising based on the most recent quarterly comparison. No recent valuation trend data is available for this suburb.

What should buyers know?

School and matric pass rate data is limited for WP Showgrounds. 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.

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

For home buyers & families

Is WP Showgrounds safe?

Safety index suppressed

Insufficient data. wp-showgrounds makes up a very small share of the Elsies River 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 WP Showgrounds?

Planned development

4 hectares of land in WP Showgrounds are earmarked for new development across 1 parcel, primarily High Density Residential (4ha).

Source: CCT District Spatial Development Framework (January 2023). Development areas indicate planning designation, not construction timelines.

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR RESIDENTS

What do utilities cost in WP Showgrounds?

Utility billing data is not available for WP Showgrounds. This area is not individually billed by the City of Cape Town - services may be delivered through communal infrastructure, prepaid meters, or Eskom supply.More about data coverage

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

INVESTMENT ACTIVITY

Development activity in WP Showgrounds

↑ Increasing

WP Showgrounds had 4 building plans approved in the last three financial years (FY22/23 to FY24/25), averaging 1 per year. Most were renovations and extensions.

3-year approvals: 4
Annual average: 1/yr
Avg project value: R653K

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 WP Showgrounds?

Well connected

WP Showgrounds has 51 minibus taxi routes.

Taxi connectivity

Well connected

51 routes

87th percentile · 39 destinations

Routes pass through WP Showgrounds but may not originate or terminate here. Connectivity index reflects geographic proximity to route corridors.

Bellville, Blaauwberg, Century city, Century city (via bosmansdam road), Century city (via n1 - sable road), Goodwood +33 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 WP Showgrounds?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in WP Showgrounds in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 32 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data

Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 2-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.

Median days to resolve
City median: 1

47th

Percentile
across Cape Town

Resolved
same day

Street lights out (53%)Vagrants (13%)Sewerage overflow (6%)Burst pipe (6%)Pole Knocked: Motor Vehicle Accident (3%)

Service requests logged: 32
Requests resolved: 72% (23 of 32)
75% resolved within: 15 days
90% resolved within: 19 days
Source: CCT service request database

Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Above city average

Complaint rate How is this calculated?: 35200.0 per 1,000 households
Total complaints: 32
Unresolved: 28.0%

Top issues: Street lights out (17), Vagrants (4), Sewerage overflow (2)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

MUNICIPAL FINANCE

Municipal debt in WP Showgrounds

Data available

Computed from City of Cape Town financial data

Total outstanding municipal debt in WP Showgrounds is R177K as of May 2026.

R177K

total

Breakdown as of May 2026

Property rates: R140 086
Electricity: R0
Water: R20 177
Refuse: R0
Sewerage: R16 906
City-wide cleaning: R0
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 WP Showgrounds?

Well served

Healthcare access

17 within 5km

Nearest public: Dirkie Uys Clinic/CDC · Clinic · 1 km
Nearest private: Netcare N1 City Hospital · Private Hospital · 3 km
Public facilities: 15
Private facilities: 2

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

The nearest fire station to WP Showgrounds is Epping, 1.0 km away. The nearest public pool is Ruyterwacht Swimming Pool, 1.0 km away. The nearest clinic is Dirkie Uys Clinic/Cdc, 1.0 km away.

Nearest clinic: Dirkie Uys Clinic/Cdc · 1 km
Nearest library: Goodwood · 0.9 km
Nearest park / open space: Ruyterwacht Greenbelt · 0.42 km

Fire station

km to nearest
fire station

Epping

community station

within-5km

response
category

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

Public swimming pools

km to nearest
public pool

pools
within 5 km

pools
within 10 km

Nearest pool: Ruyterwacht 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

WP Park669m

→

Ruyterwacht938m · R1.3M

33→

Goodrail1.3km · R810K

33→

Townsend Estate1.4km · R1.9M

31→

Thornton1.5km · R2.2M

35→

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Bordering suburbs

6 adjacent

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

Goodwood Estate Maitland Ruyterwacht Thornton Townsend Estate Wp Park

Data as of: Facilities: March 2026 | Development: DSDF January 2023 | 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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