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What's it like to live here?

Tygerberg Hospital is a neighbourhood in Cape Flats, Cape Town. The area's safety profile is below the city average for reported safety. The dominant commuter mode is private vehicle. Policing falls under the Parow SAPS precinct.

How is the area changing?

In Tygerberg Hospital, crime is declining based on the most recent quarterly comparison. No recent valuation trend data is available for this suburb.

What should buyers know?

Tygerberg Hospital is served by schools within reach. 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 Tygerberg Hospital safe?

Moderate reported crime

80th percentile among 744 suburbs · relative index, not an absolute safety measure

Moderate Absolute crime volume
10 468 reported crimes per year · city median: 10 468
↑ 1.6% vs Q3 2024
Crime sits in the middle range for Cape Town. Contact crime (assault, robbery) dominates the reported crime profile.

Detailed data

Safety index (resident-adjusted) How is this calculated? 42 / 100
Contact crime rate 509,616 per 100k residents
Station population 60 881
Harm rate (per resident) 36/100
Harm volume (absolute) 49/100
Data period Q3 2025/2026 (Oct–Dec 2025)
Source SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0

This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Parow precinct, which covers Tygerberg Hospital 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 Tygerberg Hospital?

Planned development

74 hectares of land in Tygerberg Hospital are earmarked for new development across 1 parcel, primarily Mixed Use (74ha).

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 PARENTS

How are schools in Tygerberg Hospital?

1 school nearby

Tygerberg Hospital has 1 school within reach. Schools include Carel Du Toit Sentrum.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs. Tygerberg Hospital will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›
Carel Du Toit Sentrum
Public · Special needs · 104 learners · 4.2:1 learner-educator ratio
Specialist provision

Quintile 5 is the highest government-funding category - fees apply, but these are the best-resourced public schools in South Africa. Rankings set by the WCED against community socioeconomic index. Learner-educator ratio (LER) is from EMIS Q2 2025; under 30:1 is favourable by WCED standards, over 40:1 indicates strained capacity. What quintile means ›

Source: DBE EMIS · Q2 2025

FOR COMMUTERS

How connected is Tygerberg Hospital?

Private vehicle dominant

Tygerberg Hospital has 27 minibus taxi routes. The most common way people get to work is by private vehicle (93%).

Taxi connectivity Ranks 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 ›

Connected
27 routes
68th percentile · 20 destinations
Atlantis(wesfleur), Bellville, Delft, Delft south, Elsies river, Khayelitsha +14 more
Based on CCT minibus taxi route data. Routes matched by name and spatial proximity (500m). Methodology ›

Commute mode share

Anyone relocating to Tygerberg Hospital needs a car. The 93% private vehicle share is a socioeconomic profile signal, not a walkability score – in working-class Cape Town suburbs the same walking rate indicates structural necessity. Here it is lifestyle choice.
Private vehicle
93%
Walking
4%
Minibus taxi
3%
Cape Town transport context: In South African cities, transport mode is a socioeconomic proxy – high private vehicle = affluent, high minibus taxi = working class, high walking = structural necessity not preference. StreetSignal reports modal share rather than a walkability index, which would misrepresent SA urban mobility. Methodology ›
Dominant mode Private vehicle (93%)
Source CCT Household Survey 2024

Source: City of Cape Town Open Data · 2024

FOR RESIDENTS

What are living conditions in Tygerberg Hospital?

Full municipal services

Tygerberg Hospital has a service delivery index of 99.4 out of 100, above the city median of 84.5. 98% of dwellings are formal structures.

Computed from the City of Cape Town 2024 Household Survey , Bellville survey group (45 households). Indicative: nearest survey group used.

Home fibre internet reaches 88% of households
› Monthly accommodation expenditure (R4,323) is 2.6× the city median of R1,674.› High digital connectivity: 88% of households have home internet access.

Access to basic services

99 City median: 85
Piped water
100.0%
Flush toilet
97.4%
Weekly refuse
100.0%
Grid electricity
100.0%

Housing & tenure – Mixed tenure community

98 City median: 68
Formal dwellings
98.2%
Owner-occupied
46.2%
Rented
41.7%

Environmental risk – Moderate risk exposure

13 risk index · higher = greater risk · City median: 26
Flooding risk
2.3%
Fire risk
0.0%
Violent crime
6.0%
Non-violent crime
3.2%

Economic structure – Moderate material pressure

Food spending share
24.7%
Share of income spent on food
City median: 35.3%
Comfortable, moderate discretionary income · 87th percentile
Hardship dimensions
0
Areas of material need (out of 8)
Grant income share
12.0%
of households receiving grants
Monthly savings
R881
Weighted mean per household

Spending priorities – top priority: Food

Food
90.7%
of households prioritise
Petrol/transport
74.0%
of households prioritise
Electricity
70.7%
of households prioritise
Rent/bond
33.3%
of households prioritise
School fees
14.5%
of households prioritise

Digital inclusion – Fibre-connected suburb

Home fibre
88.5%
City median: 46.5%
Mobile only
8.0%
No access
1.5%

Food security

Adult food insecurity
2.5%
City median: 18.3%
Child food insecurity
2.5%
City median: 13.0%
Food insecurity prevalence
6.9%
City median: 22.3%

Demographics & community

Avg household size
2.9 people
Avg children per household
0.6

Asset ownership

Computer access
67.1%
Fridge ownership
95.9%
Property ownership
2.1%
Geyser ownership
96.2%
Borehole access
11.2%

Home-based economy

Home-based business
12.6%
of households operate a home-based business
WFH full-time
3.6%
WFH part-time
14.4%

How Tygerberg Hospital compares

Food insecurity 86% below the city average for adult food insecurity
Material hardship 73% below the city average for material hardship
Income 4.0× the city average for median household income
Food spend share 30% below the city average for food expenditure share

Source: City of Cape Town 2024 Household Survey. Survey group: Bellville. Indicative: nearest survey group used.

Source: City of Cape Town household survey · 2024

FOR RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Tygerberg Hospital?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Tygerberg Hospital in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 53 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.
2
Median days to resolve
City median: 1
44th
Percentile
across Cape Town
24%
Resolved
same day
Low pressure (11%)Illegal dumping (9%)Vagrants (9%)Power outage (6%)Leak at fire hydrant (6%)
Service requests logged 53
Requests resolved 87% (46 of 53)
75% resolved within 7 days
90% resolved within 25 days
Source CCT service request database
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Below city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated? 227.8 per 1,000 households
Total complaints 53
Unresolved 13.0%

Top issues: WAT: Low Pressure (6), Illegal Dumping (5), Vagrants (5)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

FOR FAMILIES

What services are near Tygerberg Hospital?

Well served

Healthcare access

16 within 5km
Nearest public Tygerberg Hospital · Provincial Hospital · 0.2 km
Nearest private Mediclinic Louis Leipoldt · Private Hospital · 1.2 km
Public facilities 13
Private facilities 3

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

The nearest fire station to Tygerberg Hospital is Bellville, 2.3 km away. The nearest public pool is Bellville Swimming Pool, 1.0 km away. The nearest clinic is Tygerberg Hospital, 0.2 km away.

Nearest clinic Tygerberg Hospital · 0.2 km
Nearest library Bellville · 1.4 km
Nearest park / open space Coniston Park 3 · 0.88 km

Fire station

2.3
km to nearest
fire station
Bellville
district hq - north
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

1
km to nearest
public pool
6
pools
within 5 km
15
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool Bellville 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

4 adjacent

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

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Tygerberg Hospital · -33.9114°S, 18.6138°E

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