3.4 Number of rooms by province, with specified number of rooms*
Eastern Cape |
Free State |
Gauteng |
Kwazulu- |
Mpuma- |
Northern Cape | Northern Province |
North West |
Western Cape | South Africa | |
1** |
251,463 |
122,314 |
480,399 |
255,804 |
82,363 |
30,174 |
108,265 |
112,674 |
100,583 |
1,544,039 |
2 |
265,422 |
109,814 |
221,513 |
234,147 |
85,312 |
34,924 |
174,638 |
124,698 |
125,045 |
1,375,514 |
3 |
220,230 |
77,880 |
171,775 |
224,005 |
84,259 |
23,938 |
184,438 |
89,269 |
130,743 |
1,206,537 |
4 |
281,162 |
131,684 |
421,385 |
364,208 |
121,557 |
40,145 |
164,091 |
157,693 |
238,401 |
1,920,326 |
5 |
128,069 |
67,925 |
214,113 |
220,334 |
72,912 |
20,886 |
116,216 |
80,360 |
195,232 |
1,116,046 |
6 |
78,235 |
54,623 |
180,400 |
154,849 |
68,157 |
16,258 |
89,211 |
71,790 |
87,141 |
800,663 |
7 |
41,286 |
26,221 |
101,530 |
78,175 |
36,664 |
9,376 |
54,300 |
38,354 |
45,455 |
431,360 |
8 |
24,798 |
15,053 |
64,449 |
47,094 |
22,397 |
5,018 |
33,114 |
20,978 |
26,698 |
259,599 |
9 |
18,505 |
8,886 |
42,363 |
31,351 |
12,440 |
2,815 |
20,566 |
11,636 |
15,815 |
164,376 |
10 + |
14,429 |
7,580 |
37,673 |
32,996 |
11,700 |
2,192 |
16,600 |
8,895 |
12,864 |
144,929 |
Unspecified |
8,751 |
3,032 |
28,569 |
17,971 |
6,250 |
1,258 |
21,018 |
4,296 |
5,039 |
96,183 |
Total |
1,332,348 |
625,011 |
1,964,168 |
1,660,934 |
604,010 |
186,984 |
982,457 |
720,643 |
983,015 |
9,059,571 |
* Excluding institutions and hostels
** Including households living in one room and households sharing a room with other
households. For example the Eastern Cape column shows that, among 1,3 million households,
251 463 live in a single room, some of these households sharing.