Common areas where contact crime occurs in South Africa 2022/2023
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.
