Rankings

Top neighbourhoods — Worldwide

The best-scoring suburbs by category. 9,327 neighbourhoods ranked.

🌍 All 🇿🇦 ZA 9,327 🇬🇧 UK 41,395 🇺🇸 USA 29,585 🇩🇪 DE 10,813 🇳🇱 NL 7,684

Overall

9,327 ranked

954	Sparrebosch George, Eastern Cape	73
956	Spookietown Stellenbosch, Western Cape 10.4%	73
948	Stupereng Tzaneen, Limpopo	73
940	Sunningdale Cape Town, Western Cape 14.1%	73
942	Sunnyridge Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 17.6% QoL 67	73
943	Sunnyrock Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 17.6%	73
932	Sunnyside Pretoria, Gauteng 8.9% QoL 65	73
949	Sunridge George, Eastern Cape	73
959	Sunridge Park Gqeberha, Eastern Cape	73
934	Sweet Valley Cape Town, Western Cape 8.9%	73
950	The Heads George, Eastern Cape	73
933	Thornton Cape Town, Western Cape	73
955	Uitkyk Gqeberha, Eastern Cape 31.1%	73
931	Umhlanga Rocks Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 21.8%	73
952	Upper Central Town George, Eastern Cape	73
953	Upper Old Place George, Eastern Cape	73
944	Van Riebeeck Park Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 4.5% QoL 64	73
935	Van Riebeeckstrand Cape Town, Western Cape	73
947	Veekraal Tzaneen, Limpopo 24.8%	73
960	Vondwe Tzaneen, Limpopo	73
945	Vorna Valley Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 17.8% QoL 70	73
936	Waterfront Cape Town, Western Cape 20.3%	73
957	Westhill Gqeberha, Eastern Cape	73
951	Westhill George, Eastern Cape	73
939	Wijndal Stellenbosch, Western Cape 16.7%	73
937	Windsor Estate Stellenbosch, Western Cape 10.1%	73
946	Wonderboom Pretoria, Gauteng	73
938	Woodbridge Island Cape Town, Western Cape 10.4%	73
941	Woodhaven Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 8.9%	73
958	Alice East London, Eastern Cape	72

How these rankings are calculated

Rankings are sorted by the metric selected above — overall score, safety, schools or affordability — computed the same way for every suburb in our database, so the ordering reflects the underlying data rather than editorial judgement. Overall score is a weighted blend across all scored dimensions; each individual metric (e.g. safety) is scored independently on its own 0-100 scale.

Safety scores for South African suburbs are built from official SAPS crime statistics at police-precinct level, weighted toward violent and property crime categories. International safety scores use the equivalent national source — data.police.uk reports in the UK, BKA and Landeskriminalamt statistics in Germany, and CBS data in the Netherlands.

School scores weigh the number and proximity of nearby primary and secondary schools, drawn from the Department of Basic Education's National Masterlist; affordability compares typical rent against local median household income. Filter by country or province above to compare rankings within a specific region, or open any suburb to see the full seven-dimension breakdown behind its rank.