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Monwabisi

Safety 88/100 Safer than 92% of Cape Town suburbs (relative) Healthcare 6 facilities more access than most suburbs Council Below avg complaints 6.5d median resolution

Data current as of

The neighbourhood

What's it like to live here?

Monwabisi is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is below the city average for reported safety. Policing falls under the Macassar SAPS precinct.

How is the area changing?

In Monwabisi, crime is declining 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 Monwabisi. In this area, service complaint resolution takes around a week on average. 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 Monwabisi safe?

Lower reported crime

68th percentile among 744 suburbs · relative index, not an absolute safety measure

Very low Absolute crime volume
6 628 reported crimes per year · city median: 10 468
↓ 8.9% vs Q3 2024
Crime is low and falling. This is one of the safer parts of Cape Town, with violent crime well below the city average and a positive year-on-year trend. Contact crime (assault, robbery) dominates the reported crime profile.

Detailed data

Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated? 88 / 100
Contact crime rate 291,081 per 100k residents
Station population 63 388
Harm rate (per resident) 93/100
Harm volume (absolute) 83/100
Data period Q3 2025/2026 (Oct–Dec 2025)
Source SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0
Precinct population note: This suburb shares Macassar police precinct with Macassar, which accounts for 84% of the precinct's residential population. The safety index is based on the whole precinct, where Macassar accounts for most of the population. This may not fully reflect conditions in Monwabisi specifically.

This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Macassar precinct, which covers Monwabisi and surrounding suburbs. Reported crime may differ from actual crime levels. Full methodology

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Source: SAPS via DataFirst · Q3 2025/2026

FOR BUYERS & INVESTORS

What do properties cost in Monwabisi?

No property valuation data available for this suburb.

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Monwabisi?

Moderate

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Monwabisi in a median of 6.5 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 30 service requests to the City of Cape Town.

Computed from City of Cape Town service request data
Below-average municipal responsiveness. A 6.5-day median resolution is slower than the city median – infrastructure complaints take meaningfully longer to resolve.
6.5
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
1st
Percentile
across Cape Town
13%
Resolved
same day
Vector Control (13%)Leak at standpipe (10%)Illegal dumping (10%)Street Sweeping (10%)Coastal malicious damage to coastal infr (7%)
Service requests logged 30
Requests resolved 53% (16 of 30)
75% resolved within 8 days
90% resolved within 23 days
Source CCT service request database
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Below city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated? 23.2 per 1,000 households
Total complaints 30
Unresolved 47.0%

Top issues: Vector Control (4), WINF: Leak at Standpipe (3), Illegal Dumping (3)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

FOR FAMILIES

What services are near Monwabisi?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km
Nearest public Mayenzeke Clinic · Community Day Centre · 1.8 km
Nearest private Melomed Mitchells Plain · Private Hospital · 8.1 km
Public facilities 6
Private facilities 0

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

The nearest fire station to Monwabisi is Khayelitsha, 3.4 km away. The nearest public pool is Khayelitsha Swimming Pool, 3.8 km away. The nearest clinic is Mayenzeke Clinic, 1.8 km away.

Nearest clinic Mayenzeke Clinic · 1.8 km
Nearest library Kuyasa Library · 2 km
Nearest park / open space Welcome Zenzile Greenbelt · 1.51 km

Fire station

3.4
km to nearest
fire station
Khayelitsha
community station
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

3.8
km to nearest
public pool
1
pools
within 5 km
4
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool Khayelitsha 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

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Bordering suburbs

7 adjacent

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

Driftsands Endlovini Enkanini Harare Kuyasa Macassar Umrhabulo Triangle
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Monwabisi · -34.0680°S, 18.7080°E

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