Cape Town Household Survey
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?
- 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
Access high-level results at suburb level through the publicly available dashboard. Some de-identified data is also available on our Open Data Portal. A more comprehensive dataset (also de-identified) is available upon request. Some responses were excluded due to low reliability or inconsistent answers.
Suburb profiles and dwelling unit profiles will be released towards the end of 2025.
- Access the Cape Town Household Survey Dashboard - capturing some of the insights from the City’s first large scale household survey (2024)
- Aggregated data is available on the Open Data Portal.
- This dataset includes:
- Household characteristics
- Household head demographics
- Shapefile of suburb boundaries - Email ct.survey@capetown.gov.za to request the research-accessible dataset with aggregated household member and sub-place data
FAQs
Read our FAQs for more information.
Contact us
For more information, email
CapeTown.Survey@capetown.gov.za.
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