Cape Town in numbers
Charts on Cape Town's crime, water, weather, property, energy and more. Every chart has a source.
11% Cape Town · Highest
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Cape Town is not only the most expensive big city. Its prices are also rising faster than in the other big cities shown.
Source: Statistics South Africa · All bars start at zero
29sales Camps Bay · Highest
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Cape Town’s sales above R20 million cluster on the Atlantic Seaboard and at the waterfront. Camps Bay alone had almost two in five of these sales.
Source: Seeff Atlantic Seaboard and City Bowl · All bars start at zero
4.3% 2024 · Highest
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The foreign share rose 72% in four years, yet it still accounts for fewer than one purchase in twenty across the city.
Source: City of Cape Town · All bars start at zero
1,241,456R R13,310,000 purchase · Highest
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The tax rises much faster than the price. A home six and a half times more expensive pays nearly 37 times the tax.
Source: South African Revenue Service (SARS) · All bars start at zero
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