Two official sources side by side: SAPS recorded crime (reported to police, by station and province) and Stats SA's Victims of Crime Survey (household interviews, including a sex breakdown). Click a province on the map or in the chart to drill in.
SAPS source: SAPS official recorded crime statistics, RAW Data sheet - 2024-2025 Annual (Financial Year) crime statistics workbook | Coverage: 2015-2016 to 2024-2025 (10 financial years) | 60 stations. Gender data: Stats SA P0341, Victims of Crime Survey 2025/26.
17 community-reported serious crimes, national total per financial year.
Geography
Crime hotspot map - 2024/25
Bubble size & color = recorded crime volume by province. Orange dots = highest-volume metro stations.
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Geography
Geography
Crime by province - 2024/25
Sorted by total recorded crimes. Click a bar to select that province.
Composition
Crime category mix - 2024/25
National totals grouped by SAPS crime category, latest financial year.
Composition
Composition
Top crime categories - national, 2024/25
Highest-volume individual crime types across all stations.
Overview
SAPS · latest release
Latest quarter update
April-June 2026 vs the same quarter a year earlier, using the 17 community-reported serious crimes (the same series as the national trend above). This is a fixed quarterly comparison and isn't affected by the year picker.
Latest release
Latest release
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Latest release
Change by category - Apr-Jun 2026 vs Apr-Jun 2025
Sorted by percentage change. Red = increased, green = decreased.
Quarterly, national only
Cross-check · SAPS vs Stats SA
Murder in two independent counts
SAPS counts murders reported to the police (financial year 2024/25). Stats SA counts deaths certified as assault from death notification forms (calendar year 2024). They measure the same harm through different systems.
Cross-check
Cross-check
Cross-check
By province: murders vs assault deaths
Sorted by SAPS murders. Different years (2024/25 vs 2024), so compare shape rather than exact counts.
Not scoped by the filters
SAPS murders, 2024/25Stats SA assault deaths, 2024
SAPS murders are about 3.3 times the assault deaths in death notifications. Stats SA warns that over three-quarters of non-natural deaths are not precisely classified (most are coded as accidental injury or undetermined), so its assault count is likely an undercount of homicide. Gauteng is the outlier: first for SAPS murders but fourth for assault deaths, about 5.2 times higher in police records against 1.5 to 3.6 times elsewhere.
Cross-check
Stats SA · Victims of Crime Survey 2025/26
Who experiences crime, by sex
SAPS station data above counts crimes reported to police. This section comes from a separate household survey that also captures unreported crime, and breaks it down by sex.
Gender lens
Gender lens
Gender lens
Gap by crime category - 2025/26
Estimated victims, thousands. Sorted by the size of the gap between men and women.
National survey - no province breakdown
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Gender lens
Trend by crime type
2018/19 to 2025/26. Select a category.
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Safety
Safety
Feel "very unsafe" walking alone after dark
Percentage of individuals 16+, by sex, 2021/22 to 2025/26.
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Safety
Assaults by a spouse or partner
Share of assault incidents committed by a spouse or intimate partner, by the victim's sex, 2025/26. A share of incidents, not of people: someone assaulted twice counts twice.
31.4% women 2.2%men
Men are assaulted more often overall (see the gap chart), but women's assaults are far more likely to happen at the hands of a spouse or intimate partner — a 14× gap on this one measure.
Explore the data
Police station leaderboard
Top recorded-crime stations nationally, FY2024/25 vs FY2023/24. Click column headers to sort.
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Ranked by total of the 17 community-reported serious crime categories recorded at that station in FY2024/25.