Eighty20 Townships Insights 2011

According to the Neighbourhood Development Partnership Grant at Treasury a Township is an underdeveloped residential area reserved for non-whites created during apartheid.

Generally we cannot see ‘townships’ in survey data because surveys often do not have the required level of detail geographically, although there are a few exceptions. In addition, we are sometimes not sure what a ‘township’ is as many things on the ground are changing. In order to use recent surveys, we develop a working proxy using population group and community size. Furthermore, other data can be explored such as deeds data, which is summarised in the Affordable Land and Housing Data centre (www.alhdc.org.za).

Analysis is then done on this market, including:

• Income and employment
• Living standards
• Housing
• Shopping and entertainment