Compare two areas
Compare SAPS crime data for any two of the 34 Cape Town areas we cover, across the Atlantic Seaboard, City Bowl, Southern and Northern Suburbs, West Coast, and Helderberg & False Bay. Figures are for each area's police precinct, since SAPS publishes per precinct, not per suburb.
Crime volume is high for the Western Cape, up 11% year on year.
3,703
Precinct crimes, 2025-2026
+11%
Change vs prior year
96
Residential burglaries
336
Contact (violent) crimes
- Theft from vehicles1,002
- Common robbery115
- Residential burglary96
Crime volume is high for the Western Cape, down 10% year on year.
2,757
Precinct crimes, 2025-2026
-10%
Change vs prior year
107
Residential burglaries
298
Contact (violent) crimes
- Theft from vehicles373
- Shoplifting243
- Residential burglary107
SAPS publishes crime statistics per police precinct, not per suburb. Several suburbs we cover share one precinct, so a suburb itself may be safer or worse than its precinct-wide figures shown here.
Source: SAPS annual crime statistics (via safesuburb.co.za).