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

1318	Overbaakens Gqeberha, Eastern Cape	71
1317	Pari Park Gqeberha, Eastern Cape	71
1311	Patensie Gqeberha, Eastern Cape 9.6%	71
1320	Peninghotsa Tzaneen, Limpopo	71
1306	Pezulu Private Estate George, Eastern Cape	71
1305	Philip Nel Park Pretoria, Gauteng 19.4% QoL 67	71
1297	Pine Town Informal Settlement Stellenbosch, Western Cape 26.8%	71
1301	Plantation Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 13%	71
1315	Pookate Mahikeng, North West	71
1312	Port Alfred East London, Eastern Cape	71
1307	Postmasburg Kimberley, Northern Cape 28.8%	71
1292	Premier Estate Stellenbosch, Western Cape 10.4%	71
1293	Protea Vallei Cape Town, Western Cape 9.9%	71
1298	Puntans Hill Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 9.7%	71
1296	Rasta Kamp Informal Settlement Stellenbosch, Western Cape 26.8%	71
1310	Reebok George, Western Cape 36.1%	71
1299	Riverside Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 7.8%	71
1291	Roodepoort Johannesburg, Gauteng 21.6% QoL 65	71
1304	Rosedene Ekurhuleni, Gauteng 5.2%	71
1302	Rosettenville Johannesburg, Gauteng 2.1% QoL 56	71
1303	Rosettenville Ext Johannesburg, Gauteng 13.3%	71
1313	Royal Alfred Marina East London, Eastern Cape	71
1314	Saki East London, Eastern Cape	71
1300	Sea View Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 4.8%	71
1316	Seferela Mahikeng, North West	71
1319	Sekhiming Tzaneen, Limpopo	71
1308	Seoding Kimberley, North West 3.9%	71
1295	Sercor Park Stellenbosch, Western Cape 26.8%	71
1294	Sillery Cape Town, Western Cape 13.5%	71
1309	Simondium Stellenbosch, Western Cape 16.7%	71

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.