{"id":253151,"date":"2018-07-01T15:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=253151"},"modified":"2018-06-29T16:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:45:02","slug":"the-cheapest-south-african-cities-for-transport-and-how-long-it-will-take-you-to-get-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/253151\/the-cheapest-south-african-cities-for-transport-and-how-long-it-will-take-you-to-get-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"The cheapest South African cities for transport – and how long it will take you to get to work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Statistics South Africa has released its latest General Household Survey<\/a><\/strong>, looking at key statistics across South Africa’s eight major metros.<\/p>\n

The target population of the survey consists of all private households in all nine provinces of South Africa and residents in workers’ hostels – meaning it is representative of current population groups and living arrangements.<\/p>\n

One of the largest parts of the survey focuses on transport, and how South Africans choose to travel every day.<\/p>\n

When looking at public transportation options, minibus taxis remain by far the most popular choice, with an average of 32.9 million passenger trips made every month across the eight metros.<\/p>\n

In comparison, a much smaller amount of people use buses (5.29 million passenger trips every month), and trains (5,22 million passenger trips every month).<\/p>\n

Passenger trips made each month (‘000)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n
Mode of transport<\/th>\nCape Town<\/th>\nBuffalo City<\/th>\nNelson Mandela Bay<\/th>\nMangaung<\/th>\neThekwini<\/th>\nEkurhuleni<\/th>\nJohannesburg<\/th>\nTshwane<\/th>\nAll metros<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Minibus\/taxi<\/strong><\/td>\n4 311<\/td>\n680<\/td>\n1 538<\/td>\n888<\/td>\n5 655<\/td>\n5 471<\/td>\n10 093<\/td>\n4 279<\/td>\n32 915<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bus<\/strong><\/td>\n1 642<\/td>\n85<\/td>\n357<\/td>\n371<\/td>\n628<\/td>\n422<\/td>\n1 077<\/td>\n706<\/td>\n5 286<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Train<\/strong><\/td>\n1 703<\/td>\n175<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n33<\/td>\n772<\/td>\n991<\/td>\n954<\/td>\n562<\/td>\n5 220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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% of the household’s income spent on transport per month<\/strong><\/p>\n

The survey also found that transport is still relatively costly for many South Africans, with a large number spending 30% or more of their household income on travelling costs.<\/p>\n

According to the data,\u00a0eThekwini is the worst in this regard with over a third of all\u00a0 households (36.3%) spending 30% or more of their income on transport every month.<\/p>\n

In comparison, the majority of Capetonians (57%) spend just 1%-10% of their household incomes on transport every month.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Percentage spent<\/th>\nCape Town<\/th>\nBuffalo City<\/th>\nNelson Mandela Bay<\/th>\nMangaung<\/th>\neThekwini<\/th>\nEkurhuleni<\/th>\nJohannesburg<\/th>\nTshwane<\/th>\nAll metros<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1-10%<\/strong><\/td>\n57.6%<\/td>\n50%<\/td>\n42.4%<\/td>\n50.9%<\/td>\n25.0%<\/td>\n47.2%<\/td>\n40.1%<\/td>\n41.8%<\/td>\n43.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11-20%<\/strong><\/td>\n22.3%<\/td>\n25%<\/td>\n34.4%<\/td>\n25.3%<\/td>\n28.0%<\/td>\n24.8%<\/td>\n20.6%<\/td>\n26.0%<\/td>\n24.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21-30%<\/strong><\/td>\n8.5%<\/td>\n11.1%<\/td>\n11.1%<\/td>\n11.2%<\/td>\n10.7%<\/td>\n9.6%<\/td>\n11.4%<\/td>\n13.0%<\/td>\n10.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30% or more<\/strong><\/td>\n11.6%<\/td>\n13.9%<\/td>\n12.2%<\/td>\n12.6%<\/td>\n36.3%<\/td>\n18.4%<\/td>\n27.9%<\/td>\n19.3%<\/td>\n21.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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% of workers travelling for longer than 30 minutes to their place of work\/school<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course costs are not the only way to measure the impact of transport on South African households, with most motorists having to navigate traffic on their daily work and school commutes.<\/p>\n

Stats SA found that the City of Tshwane was the worst in this regard, with 52% of workers\u00a0travelling for longer than 30 minutes to their place of work.\u00a0In comparison less than\u00a06.9% of commuters in Nelson Mandela Bay said that it takes them longer than half an hour to get to work.<\/p>\n

Similar patterns can be seen in the amount of time it takes to get to school, with just 3.2% of Nelson Mandela Bay residents stating it takes longer than half an hour to get to their place of education, while 21.1% of\u00a0Tshwane residents said it took them more than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nCape Town<\/th>\nBuffalo City<\/th>\nNelson Mandela Bay<\/th>\nMangaung<\/th>\neThekwini<\/th>\nEkurhuleni<\/th>\nJohannesburg<\/th>\nTshwane<\/th>\nAll metros<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
School<\/strong><\/td>\n15.6%<\/td>\n16.6%<\/td>\n3.2%<\/td>\n12.3%<\/td>\n15.2%<\/td>\n16.5%<\/td>\n18.9%<\/td>\n21.1%<\/td>\n16.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Work<\/strong><\/td>\n48.5%<\/td>\n22.7%<\/td>\n6.9%<\/td>\n25.9%<\/td>\n36.5%<\/td>\n42.1%<\/td>\n50.8%<\/td>\n52.0%<\/td>\n43.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here’s how much time South Africans spend on transport every month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":57817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26,1809],"class_list":["post-253151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline","tag-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253151"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255489,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253151\/revisions\/255489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}