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What's it like to live here?

Uitzicht is a neighbourhood in Northern Suburbs, Cape Town, where property values sit in the middle-to-upper range for Cape Town. The area's safety profile is among the more challenging areas for reported safety in Cape Town. Policing falls under the Durbanville SAPS precinct.

How is the area changing?

In Uitzicht, crime levels are stable based on the most recent quarterly comparison. Property values have broadly tracked inflation between valuation rolls.

What should buyers know?

Uitzicht 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 Uitzicht safe?

Moderate reported crime

93rd percentile among 744 suburbs · relative index, not an absolute safety measure

Low Absolute crime volume
9 036 reported crimes per year · city median: 10 468
↓ 1.3% 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? 61 / 100
Contact crime rate 419,461 per 100k residents
Station population 66 873
Harm rate (per resident) 64/100
Harm volume (absolute) 59/100
Data period Q3 2025/2026 (Oct–Dec 2025)
Source SAPS via DataFirst · CC-BY 4.0

This data reflects crimes reported to SAPS Durbanville precinct, which covers Uitzicht 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 Uitzicht?

62nd percentile

The median property value in Uitzicht is R2.3M. Property values have grown by 5.2% per year since 2018.

A 5.2% annual growth rate (CAGR) over the valuation period.
Value band distribution – Uitzicht 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 R2,280,000
Value growth (CAGR 2018–2022) +5.2% per year ↑ Growing
City-wide value percentile 62nd percentile
Dominant value band 1.5-2M
Source CCT GV 2022 · Open Data Policy 27781

Source: City of Cape Town GV2022

FOR PARENTS

How are schools in Uitzicht?

1 school nearby

Uitzicht has 1 school within reach. Schools include Curro Uitzicht Independent School.

Matric results: pass rate data currently covers 157 of 744 suburbs. Uitzicht will surface when DBE suburb-level data is processed in the next pipeline run. About coverage ›
IND
Curro Uitzicht Independent School
Independent · Grades R–12 · 125 learners · 5.7:1 learner-educator ratio
PrivateNo-fee schoolFavourable class size

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 RESIDENTS

How responsive are municipal services in Uitzicht?

Responsive

The City of Cape Town resolves service requests in Uitzicht in a median of 2 days, compared to the city-wide median of 1 day. This is based on 2,630 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
45th
Percentile
across Cape Town
26%
Resolved
same day
Sewerage overflow (12%)Single street light out (11%)Noise Nuisance (5%)Power outage (4%)Damaged Bin - 240L (4%)
Service requests logged 2 630
Requests resolved 77% (2 018 of 2 630)
75% resolved within 5 days
90% resolved within 15 days
Source CCT service request database
Municipal complaints

Complaints & top issues

Near city average
Complaint rate How is this calculated? 1840.2 per 1,000 households
Total complaints 2 622
Unresolved 23.0%

Top issues: SEW: Blocked/Overflow (319), Street Lights - Single Light Out (275), Noise Nuisance (118)

Source: City of Cape Town C3 service requests

FOR FAMILIES

What services are near Uitzicht?

Well served

Healthcare access

6 within 5km
Nearest public Brighton Street Clinic · Community Day Centre · 3.1 km
Nearest private Mediclinic Durbanville · Private Hospital · 3.2 km
Public facilities 4
Private facilities 2

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

The nearest fire station to Uitzicht is Kraaifontein, 3.0 km away. The nearest public pool is Morning Star Swimming Pool, 3.2 km away. The nearest clinic is Brighton Street Clinic, 3.1 km away.

Nearest clinic Brighton Street Clinic · 3.1 km
Nearest library Kraaifontein · 3 km
Nearest park / open space Uitzicht Park 6 · 0.09 km

Fire station

3
km to nearest
fire station
Kraaifontein
community station
within-5km
response
category

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

Public swimming pools

3.2
km to nearest
public pool
1
pools
within 5 km
1
pools
within 10 km
Nearest pool Morning Star 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

8 adjacent

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

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Uitzicht · -33.8184°S, 18.6882°E

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