Buildings completed in South Africa: floor area and dwellings by province and type of building
How many new homes, and how much new floor space, larger municipalities recorded as completed each month since January 2000, for South Africa and each of the nine provinces. It counts completed dwelling-houses (smaller than 80 square metres, and 80 square metres or more) and flats and townhouses, and gives the floor area in square metres of these and of other completed buildings: other residential buildings, office and banking space, shopping space, industrial and warehouse space, and additions and alterations. Because it measures buildings actually finished rather than planned, it shows the new supply of homes and commercial space reaching the market, and the split by house size shows the balance between smaller and larger homes.
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The data
3,200 rows, 17 columns.
- year Year
- Year of the data 2000 – 2026
- month Number
- Month of the data (1–12) 1 – 12
- year_month Date
- Year and month of the data as YYYY-MM-DD. The day (01) is a placeholder. 2000-01-01 – 2026-08-01
- geography Category
- South Africa (the national total) or the province. The nine provincial rows for a month add up to the South Africa row. South Africa, Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo
- number_houses_under_80m2 Number
- Number of dwelling-houses smaller than 80 square metres in buildings reported as completed 0 – 5783
- number_houses_80m2_plus Number
- Number of dwelling-houses of 80 square metres or more in buildings reported as completed 0 – 2302
- number_flats_townhouses Number
- Number of flats and townhouses in buildings reported as completed 0 – 3747
- area_houses_under_80m2 Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for dwelling-houses smaller than 80 square metres, in square metres 0 – 237078
- area_houses_80m2_plus Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for dwelling-houses of 80 square metres or more, in square metres 0 – 532888
- area_flats_townhouses Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for flats and townhouses, in square metres 0 – 581589
- area_other_residential Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for other residential buildings, in square metres 0 – 113841
- area_offices_banks Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for office and banking space, in square metres 0 – 205257
- area_shopping Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for shopping space, in square metres 0 – 379887
- area_industrial_warehouses Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for industrial and warehouse space, in square metres 0 – 303597
- area_other_non_residential Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for other non-residential buildings, in square metres 0 – 150605
- area_additions_alterations_houses Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for additions and alterations to dwelling-houses, in square metres 0 – 261264
- area_additions_alterations_other Number
- Floor area of buildings reported as completed for additions and alterations to other buildings, in square metres 0 – 216569
Latest rows
| year | month | year_month | geography | number_houses_under_80m2 | number_houses_80m2_plus | number_flats_townhouses | area_houses_under_80m2 | area_houses_80m2_plus | area_flats_townhouses | area_other_residential | area_offices_banks | area_shopping | area_industrial_warehouses | area_other_non_residential | area_additions_alterations_houses | area_additions_alterations_other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Limpopo | 7 | 16 | 1 | 425 | 4631 | 619 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2225 | 0 | 495 | 251 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Mpumalanga | 15 | 51 | 0 | 1031 | 10259 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 566 | 454 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Gauteng | 203 | 163 | 37 | 10167 | 43755 | 3907 | 0 | 0 | 11170 | 1868 | 0 | 8476 | 4943 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | North West | 3 | 29 | 1 | 170 | 7277 | 158 | 0 | 0 | 675 | 1200 | 0 | 3728 | 1747 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | KwaZulu-Natal | 5 | 41 | 37 | 284 | 11233 | 3650 | 0 | 0 | 4890 | 34751 | 1002 | 7085 | 4349 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Free State | 3 | 12 | 0 | 133 | 4042 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 175 | 291 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Northern Cape | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1103 | 1234 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Eastern Cape | 5 | 36 | 4 | 312 | 7768 | 713 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1198 | 3249 | 0 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | Western Cape | 262 | 274 | 116 | 11337 | 61933 | 12490 | 3408 | 17651 | 57405 | 40513 | 3667 | 22996 | 16827 |
| 2026 | 8 | 2026-08-01 | South Africa | 503 | 623 | 196 | 23859 | 151038 | 21537 | 3408 | 17651 | 74140 | 80557 | 5867 | 47873 | 30096 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2026-07-01 | Limpopo | 1 | 21 | 4 | 55 | 4622 | 1002 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1852 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 7 | 2026-07-01 | Mpumalanga | 1 | 17 | 11 | 65 | 4832 | 2971 | 0 | 0 | 480 | 0 | 0 | 656 | 0 |
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