{"id":302124,"date":"2019-03-02T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=302124"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:06:34","slug":"the-cities-in-south-africa-that-offer-the-best-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/302124\/the-cities-in-south-africa-that-offer-the-best-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The cities in South Africa that offer the best quality of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

When compared to cities globally, Cape Town stands out as offering the best quality of life in South Africa.<\/p>\n

This is according to Numbeo’s quality of life index, which assesses\u00a0 a number of factors that impact the lifestyle of a city’s residents – from the cost of living (and purchasing power), to safety and security, healthcare and pollution.<\/p>\n

In the mainline global ranking, four South African cities are ranked, with enough comparable data to be judged among other major global cities.<\/p>\n

Here, Cape Town is ranked number one in the country, offering the best quality of life – also ranking 123rd overall, with an index score of 148.40.<\/p>\n

Cape Town is followed by Durban (133rd), then Pretoria (147th) and finally Johannesburg (152nd).<\/p>\n

Globally, South Africa ranks 40th out of 71 countries measured, pointing to a middling quality of life, when compared to other countries.<\/p>\n

Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Switzerland and Finland top the ranking, offering the highest quality of life – while nations like Iran, Egypt and Kazakhstan are the bottom of the rankings.<\/p>\n

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However, looking at more localised data, several other cities not included in the global ranking have enough information to formulate a local ranking – where Cape Town sinks down to fourth, below its coastal cousins: George, Knysna and Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

George offers the overall highest quality of life, Numbeo’s data shows, with the highest safety rating, a good climate, a relatively affordable cost of living, low traffic and low levels of pollution.<\/p>\n

This is in stark contrast to the lowest quality of life among the South African cities ranked – Vanderbijlpark – which has the lowest safety rating, the worst healthcare rating, and one of the highest pollution ratings.<\/p>\n

The table below outlines how the South African cities scores in each quality of life category, and their overall score.<\/p>\n

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Reading the numbers above, for purchasing power, safety, healthcare and climate, the higher the number, the better the score – for cost of living, property to income, traffic and pollution, the opposite is true.<\/p>\n

Across all the South African cities assessed, in general safety levels are poor, but purchasing power is quite strong – while the climate stands out as being quite pleasant.<\/p>\n

Numbeo’s data relies on user-submitted information, which is supplemented with other external data. The group’s data is used to compile the Deutsche Bank’s Cost of Living report, as well as in other research reports.<\/p>\n

Where not enough data is available to make a comparison, Numbeo does not give that city a score, and has been excluded.<\/p>\n

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Read: The most expensive cities in South Africa in 2019: Joburg vs Cape Town vs Pretoria<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When compared to international cities, Cape Town stands out as offering the highest quality of life in South Africa – but when looking locally, a few other cities stand out as being better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":301980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,9625],"class_list":["post-302124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-numbeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302124","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=302124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302844,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302124\/revisions\/302844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}