Cape Town Household Survey
We have now completed data collection for the City’s first large-scale socio-economic household survey. Over 8 300 households were interviewed across Cape Town. Data from the survey will help us to understand our residents and communities better, and will greatly assist in informing our planning decisions to better address residents’ needs.
About
The City of Cape Town plans to conduct a household survey every two to three years to obtain accurate, reliable, frequent and up-to-date data on households across the city. Interviews for the first Cape Town Household Survey took place from mid-February to early October 2024. Results of the survey will help us with the information we need to deliver better services and know when to adapt service delivery and redesign or scale up our programmes.
What information was collected?
We asked questions related to socio-economic and demographic information, including:
- Age, gender and general health and wellbeing of each household member
- Current employment, level of education, migration, and mobility
- Home ownership or rental status, household income and expenditure, access to services and use of public amenities
The survey is POPIA compliant, and any personal information collected is treated as confidential. All information gathered is used only for statistical and research purposes. Participation is voluntary and any participant has the right of access to and the right to rectify or request the removal of the information collected.
Who was interviewed?
Households from across the City of Cape Town were selected randomly to provide a spatially representative sample of each suburb and the city as a whole. Selected households came from a variety of dwelling types including formal housing (freestanding and semi-detached houses, apartments/flats, townhouses, security complexes, Residential Development Programme (RDP)/Breaking New Ground (BNG) homes, etc.), informal settlements, and formal and informal backyard structures.
Survey results
Explore insights from the City’s first large scale household survey (2024). Access high-level results at suburb level through suburb profiles and the publicly available dashboard. De-identified and disaggregated data for individual households is also available on our Open Data Portal.
Dashboard
Access the
Cape Town Household Survey Dashboard - capturing some of the insights at both the metro level and suburb level. The dashboard contains a variety of themes that you can use to make comparisons to the 2022 Census and 2023 General Household Survey, as well as comparisons between different suburbs.
Open Data Portal
Disaggregated de-identified data can be explored on the
Open Data Portal. A csv file and other material are available for download for a majority of variables.
Researcher dataset
To access the full dataset, email
ct.survey@capetown.gov.za.
The research-accessible dataset includes:
- disaggregated data on individual household members,
- sub-place level data, and
- additional variables not released on the Open Data Portal.
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