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Matlabas

Moderate

Rustenburg, Limpopo

Peri Urban

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Worth shortlisting Based on 7 scored dimensions

Best reasons

100

Property confidence

Safety — 46 reported incidents in the latest period

Affordability

Trade-offs

Schools

Transport

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Transport — no source available yet

Amenities — no source available yet

Lifestyle — no source available yet

What's happening

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Mpumalanga couple arrested after 200 people found at unregistered rehab centre Sunday World

About 200 people were rescued from an unregistered rehabilitation centre in Mpumalanga on Friday, police said. Reports indicate that some had

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Mpumalanga couple arrested after 200 people found at alleged illegal rehab centre Sowetanlive

The couple face charges of kidnapping, operating an unregistered treatment centre and failing to comply with health and

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Mpumalanga couple arrested after 200 people found at alleged illegal rehab centre Timeslive

The couple face charges of kidnapping, operating an unregistered treatment centre and failing to comply with health and

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Final four a battle of history and heartache in Pick n Pay Gold Cup Ebnewsdaily

All club roads will lead to the Bushveld and Surf City on Saturday as the Pick n Pay Gold Cup reaches the semi-final stage after three weeks of nail-biting action from club venues across...

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Tharisa signs PGM offtake deal with Valterra Platinum subsidiary Mining Technology

Tharisa Minerals, a fully owned subsidiary of Tharisa, has signed a binding sale agreement with Rustenburg Platinum Mines, a subsidiary of Valterra Platinum, for the offtake of platinum group metals (PGM) concentrate. The post Tharisa signs PGM offtake deal with Valterra Platinum subsidiary appeared first on Mining Technology.

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Data confidence

Moderate coverage

Coverage confidence reflects geographic matching, source authority, freshness, record coverage, and demographic alignment. It is not a liveability score.

geography

25 pts

source authority

20 pts

freshness

20 pts

record coverage

0 pts

demographic alignment

5 pts

Reliable enriched schools, amenity details, ratings, and official area demographics are not available for this suburb yet. Existing evidence elsewhere on this page remains visible; missing facts are not estimated.

Score dashboard

SAPS 2022-2023 · modelled

Safety

Top 2%

2022-2023

Affordability

Top 37%

modelled

Schools

Bottom 1%

2020

Transport

Bottom 45%

pending

Amenities

Bottom 44%

pending

Lifestyle

Bottom 42%

pending

100

Property Confidence

Top 8%

RPPI 2010-2023

Flood & earthquake history

🌊 Flood: None on record

🌍 Earthquake: None on record

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Municipal service delivery

Real Stats SA General Household Survey (GHS 2022) — based on 2,295 households surveyed. for the wider municipality/province this suburb sits in.

Flush toilet access

29%

Pit/bucket toilet (backlog)

69%

Has electricity

98%

Regular refuse removal

18%

Water interruptions (past yr)

71%

Less happy than last year

33%

What residents are complaining about

% of households reporting each problem as present in their area.

Illegal rubbish dumping 11%

Littering 24%

Water pollution 10%

Air pollution 11%

Land degradation 36%

Noise pollution 8%

Source: Stats SA GHS 2022.

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Load-shedding

No load-shedding

National status

✓ No load-shedding

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Safety & crime

SAPS Precinct

Hoopdal

Total incidents

Violent crime

32 +6

Burglary & robbery

1 -2

Property crime

6 -2

Vehicle crime

0 0

Other

7 +2

Most reported crimes

Kidnapping

Drug Crime

Contact Sexoff

Common Assault

Other Theft

Sexual Offences

Rape

Stock Theft

Reporting history (2008–2023)

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2022

Total Burglary share Latest period

Source: SAPS crime statistics, SAPACR dataset (2008–2023). South African Police Service.

Nearest police stations

Hoopdal 2.5 km

Straight-line distances from suburb centre. Source: OpenStreetMap.

Flood & earthquake

🌊 No flood history

🌍 No earthquake history

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Nearby schools

DBE National Masterlist 2020 · within 5km

No schools from the DBE National Masterlist found within 5km.

Amenities & transport

OpenStreetMap

Amenity data is being gathered from OpenStreetMap.

Natural hazards & flood/earthquake history

GDACS

No significant hazards on record

No notable floods or earthquakes recorded near this area since 2006.

Affordability

Estimated

Estimated figures — modelled from NeighbourhoodIQ score and area type. No suburb-level Stats SA survey exists. Use as a rough planning guide, not a valuation.

Avg monthly rent

R10,670

Median income

R32,980

Avg property price

R1,309,500

Price trend YoY

+2.4%

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Monthly income

Deposit available

Median household income in Limpopo (Stats SA GHS 2022) R3,560/mo

Official house price index — Limpopo Stats SA RPPI, 2010–2023

Price index by period: 2010-01: 66.4, 2010-02: 65.4, 2010-03: 64.4, 2010-04: 63.5, 2010-05: 62.8, 2010-06: 62.2, 2010-07: 62.1, 2010-08: 62.3, 2010-09: 62.4, 2010-10: 62.6, 2010-11: 62.7, 2010-12: 62.9, 2011-01: 63.0, 2011-02: 63.3, 2011-03: 63.6, 2011-04: 63.9, 2011-05: 64.3, 2011-06: 64.8, 2011-07: 65.6, 2011-08: 66.8, 2011-09: 68.4, 2011-10: 69.9, 2011-11: 71.1, 2011-12: 72.0, 2012-01: 72.6, 2012-02: 73.1, 2012-03: 73.6, 2012-04: 74.4, 2012-05: 75.4, 2012-06: 76.1, 2012-07: 76.3, 2012-08: 76.1, 2012-09: 75.6, 2012-10: 75.3, 2012-11: 75.2, 2012-12: 75.3, 2013-01: 75.3, 2013-02: 75.2, 2013-03: 74.6, 2013-04: 73.5, 2013-05: 72.3, 2013-06: 71.5, 2013-07: 71.4, 2013-08: 71.7, 2013-09: 72.3, 2013-10: 72.9, 2013-11: 73.3, 2013-12: 73.6, 2014-01: 73.8, 2014-02: 74.2, 2014-03: 75.0, 2014-04: 76.2, 2014-05: 77.7, 2014-06: 78.9, 2014-07: 79.5, 2014-08: 79.2, 2014-09: 78.3, 2014-10: 77.1, 2014-11: 76.3, 2014-12: 76.2, 2015-01: 77.0, 2015-02: 78.1, 2015-03: 79.1, 2015-04: 79.8, 2015-05: 80.1, 2015-06: 80.3, 2015-07: 80.5, 2015-08: 80.7, 2015-09: 81.1, 2015-10: 81.3, 2015-11: 81.2, 2015-12: 80.6, 2016-01: 79.8, 2016-02: 79.2, 2016-03: 79.1, 2016-04: 79.2, 2016-05: 79.4, 2016-06: 79.2, 2016-07: 78.9, 2016-08: 78.8, 2016-09: 79.2, 2016-10: 80.4, 2016-11: 82.4, 2016-12: 85.0, 2017-01: 87.0, 2017-02: 87.9, 2017-03: 87.6, 2017-04: 86.6, 2017-05: 85.7, 2017-06: 85.5, 2017-07: 86.5, 2017-08: 88.3, 2017-09: 90.3, 2017-10: 91.4, 2017-11: 91.5, 2017-12: 90.5, 2018-01: 89.4, 2018-02: 88.7, 2018-03: 89.1, 2018-04: 90.3, 2018-05: 91.6, 2018-06: 92.2, 2018-07: 92.2, 2018-08: 91.8, 2018-09: 91.4, 2018-10: 91.5, 2018-11: 92.2, 2018-12: 93.1, 2019-01: 93.9, 2019-02: 94.1, 2019-03: 93.6, 2019-04: 92.7, 2019-05: 92.3, 2019-06: 92.6, 2019-07: 93.3, 2019-08: 94.0, 2019-09: 94.2, 2019-10: 93.9, 2019-11: 93.4, 2019-12: 93.0, 2020-01: 93.3, 2020-02: 94.5, 2020-03: 96.2, 2020-04: 98.0, 2020-05: 99.0, 2020-06: 99.3, 2020-07: 99.0, 2020-08: 98.4, 2020-09: 98.0, 2020-10: 98.0, 2020-11: 98.7, 2020-12: 100.0, 2021-01: 101.4, 2021-02: 102.8, 2021-03: 103.9, 2021-04: 104.7, 2021-05: 105.2, 2021-06: 105.3, 2021-07: 105.4, 2021-08: 105.6, 2021-09: 106.3, 2021-10: 107.5, 2021-11: 108.0, 2021-12: 109.3, 2022-01: 111.7, 2022-02: 112.9, 2022-03: 113.8, 2022-04: 114.7, 2022-05: 116.0, 2022-06: 117.8, 2022-07: 120.5, 2022-08: 123.6, 2022-09: 126.4, 2022-10: 128.2, 2022-11: 128.8, 2022-12: 128.5, 2023-01: 127.7

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