Fact-a-day

Safe?

January 28th, 2010 by admin

Just over half (51%) of South African households with a monthly household income of R20,000 or more use a home security service. For all households, the proportion is 13%. (AMPS2009A)

This week’s theme: Crime and safety

Related facts:

  1. Let there be light 82% of households in South Africa with a household income of...
  2. Income: rural vs urban 54% of rural households in South Africa have a monthly household...
  3. Redistribution 10.6% of adults earning R30,000 or more per month said they...
  4. Newspaper readership by household income The average monthly household income of Business Day readers is over...
  5. Cool. Shareholder's too About 76,000 households with a household income less than R1,600 per...

2 Responses to “Safe?”

  1. Ayanda says:

    I am a 31 year old black man. None of the privately owned houses that i have ever visited has a safe and houses that i visit are owned by people with a monthly income that is above 20K. maybe i just visit the other 49 %

  2. Giles says:

    Ayanda, I’m sure you’re right about safes but I read it as 51% of houses using a security service like ADT, Chubb, Star, GSS or smaller neighbourhood equivalents etc… which IS an interesting statistic, I think. So half of those that earn over R20,000 pay someone to look out for criminal intent and come running when it hits… THAT says something about how we live, sadly. I wonder what percentage of households – of any income – have alarms. Bet that would be far higher. Conclusion? The business to be in is security…

Comment on this fact

Speak your mind