Residential Robbery in South Africa
SAPS records this as "Robbery at residential premises", a component of aggravated robbery, one of SafeSuburb's 14 crime-type pages. This page breaks it out on its own, which that category page does not.
SAPS recorded 20,420 cases of robbery at residential premises nationally in Apr 2025–Mar 2026, down 12.7% vs Apr 2024–Mar 2025.
Robbery vs burglary: robbery is a contact crime — someone is present, and force or the threat of force is used. Burglary at residential premises is entering a property to steal without confronting anyone, a separate property-crime category on its own page. The two figures are never added together.
How SAPS counts this: robbery at residential premises is a subcategory of robbery with aggravating circumstances in SAPS statistics. The counts on this page are already included in the aggravated robbery figures shown on precinct and suburb pages across this site, so never add the two together.
Note: Raw reported counts, not adjusted for population. Areas with more residents will naturally record more cases.
Is house robbery rising or falling in South Africa?
Which provinces record the most house robberies?
Bars coloured by direction vs the previous financial year: green = fewer cases, red = more, grey = within 2%. Sorted by Apr 2025–Mar 2026 count.
| Province | Apr 2025–Mar 2026 | vs Apr 2024–Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | 6,864 | -14% |
| KwaZulu-Natal | 5,171 | -4% |
| Eastern Cape | 2,020 | -16.8% |
| Western Cape | 1,852 | -22.5% |
| Mpumalanga | 1,372 | -18.2% |
| North West | 1,251 | -2.5% |
| Limpopo | 1,106 | -13.8% |
| Free State | 634 | -19.4% |
| Northern Cape | 150 | -10.7% |
Which precincts record the most house robberies?
The 50 SAPS precincts with the most recorded robbery-at-residential-premises cases in Apr 2025–Mar 2026. Click a precinct for its full crime breakdown. Counts are precinct-level SAPS subcategory figures and are already part of each precinct's aggravated robbery total.
| # | Precinct | District | Province | Apr 2025–Mar 2026 | vs Apr 2024–Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inanda | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 440 | +25.7% |
| 2 | Ntuzuma | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 270 | +39.9% |
| 3 | Mpumalanga (KZN) | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 222 | +46.1% |
| 4 | Ivory Park | Ekurhuleni | Gauteng | 215 | +32.7% |
| 5 | Umlazi | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 197 | -19.9% |
| 6 | Kwazakele | Nelson Mandela Bay | Eastern Cape | 170 | -36.6% |
| 7 | Mariannhill | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 157 | +27.6% |
| 8 | Tembisa | Ekurhuleni | Gauteng | 157 | -36.2% |
| 9 | New Brighton | Nelson Mandela Bay | Eastern Cape | 155 | -25.5% |
| 10 | Verulam | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 152 | -22.1% |
| 11 | Plessislaer | Umgungundlovu | KwaZulu-Natal | 149 | -19.5% |
| 12 | Evaton | Sedibeng | Gauteng | 145 | +33% |
| 13 | Nyanga | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 141 | +24.8% |
| 14 | Kwadukuza | Ilembe | KwaZulu-Natal | 140 | -20% |
| 15 | Mamelodi East | Tshwane | Gauteng | 139 | +3.7% |
| 16 | Dobsonville | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 138 | +35.3% |
| 17 | Temba | Tshwane | Gauteng | 130 | +16.1% |
| 18 | Dawn Park | Ekurhuleni | Gauteng | 129 | +41.8% |
| 19 | Orange Farms | Sedibeng | Gauteng | 128 | +5.8% |
| 20 | Lenasia | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 121 | +57.1% |
| 21 | Pienaar | Ehlanzeni | Mpumalanga | 121 | -18.8% |
| 22 | Rietgat | Tshwane | Gauteng | 119 | +3.5% |
| 23 | Loate | Tshwane | Gauteng | 117 | -25% |
| 24 | Honeydew | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 115 | -7.3% |
| 25 | Akasia | Tshwane | Gauteng | 113 | +3.7% |
| 26 | Roodepoort | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 111 | -53.9% |
| 27 | Empangeni | King Cetshwayo | KwaZulu-Natal | 110 | -6% |
| 28 | Kwadwesi | Nelson Mandela Bay | Eastern Cape | 106 | +19.1% |
| 29 | Protea | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 104 | +36.8% |
| 30 | Khayelitsha | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 102 | -43.6% |
| 31 | Boitekong | Bojanala | North West | 100 | +58.7% |
| 32 | Kwadabeka | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 100 | +3.1% |
| 33 | Kwanobuhle | Nelson Mandela Bay | Eastern Cape | 100 | -23.7% |
| 34 | Atteridgeville | Tshwane | Gauteng | 96 | +33.3% |
| 35 | Delft | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 96 | -5% |
| 36 | Mabopane | Tshwane | Gauteng | 96 | -18.6% |
| 37 | Kraaifontein | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 95 | -12.8% |
| 38 | Sandton | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 95 | +14.5% |
| 39 | Kabokweni | Ehlanzeni | Mpumalanga | 94 | -26% |
| 40 | Cosmo City | Johannesburg | Gauteng | 92 | -41.4% |
| 41 | Hillcrest | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 92 | -3.2% |
| 42 | Vosloorus | Ekurhuleni | Gauteng | 92 | +61.4% |
| 43 | Motherwell | Nelson Mandela Bay | Eastern Cape | 90 | 0% |
| 44 | Mfuleni | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 89 | -36% |
| 45 | Hebron | Bojanala | North West | 88 | +18.9% |
| 46 | Vanderbijlpark | Sedibeng | Gauteng | 88 | -18.5% |
| 47 | Kwamashu E | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 87 | -9.4% |
| 48 | Pinetown | eThekwini | KwaZulu-Natal | 86 | -3.4% |
| 49 | Kwamsane | Umkhanyakude | KwaZulu-Natal | 85 | -3.4% |
| 50 | Philippi East | City of Cape Town | Western Cape | 84 | -13.4% |