In FY 2022/2023, the suburb of Johannesburg Central in the Gauteng province of South Africa had the highest number of contact crime recorded incidents, with 4,208 reports. Nyanga (Western Cape) followed with 4,045 reports. Combining the number of incidents in all 15 hot-spot areas accounts for around eight percent of the total number of contact crimes in the observed period.
Locations with the highest number of contact crimes in South Africa in 2022/2023
The South African fiscal year runs from April 1 to March 31.
The values were taken from quarterly South African Police Service reports from 2022/2023, and have been aggregated by Statista in order to get the total values.
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