3.4 Number of rooms by province, with specified number of rooms*

 

Eastern Cape

Free State

Gauteng

Kwazulu-
Natal

Mpuma-
langa

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
/Other

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.