City of Johannesburg Household Municipal Bills
A typical Johannesburg household’s monthly municipal account under the city’s tariffs: property rates, electricity, water, sanitation and refuse removal, plus VAT. These figures are provided in the City of Joburg's budget books: Under the Municipal Finance Management Act, South African municipalities must include 'Table SA14: Household bills' to show what a typical household’s monthly municipal account would be under the city’s tariffs These example municipal bills are provided by the City of Joburg for 3 tiers of household types: 'middle-income', 'affordable', and 'indigent' household. The city defines the hypothetical household they use for each case - Johannesburg’s “middle-income” sample household owns a property valued at R700,000 and uses 1,000 kWh of electricity and 30 kilolitres of water a month. Affordable = property value R500,000; 500 kWh electricity; 25 kl water usage Indigent = property value R300,000; 350 kWh electricity and 20 kl water usage Because the household stays the same each year, changes in the bill reflect changes in tariffs, not in how much people use.
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The data
30 rows, 14 columns.
- date Number
- calendar year the financial year begins 2019 – 2028
- metric Category
- Middle income, Affordable, Indigent
- fin_year Category
- Budget year. Financial year runs 1 July - 30 June 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27, 2027/28, 2028/29
- figure_type Category
- audited, adjusted_budget, budget, projection
- property_rates Number
- 96.86 – 351.07
- electricity_basic_levy Number
- 548.84 – 1068.54
- electricity_consumption Number
- 356.08 – 3555.14
- water_consumption Number
- 241.04 – 1524.88
- sanitation Number
- 213.94 – 880.09
- refuse_removal Number
- 134 – 296.31
- water_dsm_levy Number
- 31.08 – 122.43
- subtotal Number
- 659.3 – 7798.46
- vat_on_services Number
- 98.9 – 1117.11
- total Number
- 758.2 – 8915.57
First rows
| date | metric | fin_year | figure_type | property_rates | electricity_basic_levy | electricity_consumption | water_consumption | sanitation | refuse_removal | water_dsm_levy | subtotal | vat_on_services | total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Middle income | 2019/20 | audited | 226.01 | 548.84 | 1439.75 | 625.14 | 416.47 | 177 | 3433.21 | 481.08 | 3914.29 | |
| 2019 | Affordable | 2019/20 | audited | 96.86 | 548.84 | 670.4 | 460.39 | 213.94 | 134 | 2124.43 | 304.14 | 2428.57 | |
| 2019 | Indigent | 2019/20 | audited | 418.26 | 241.04 | 659.3 | 98.9 | 758.2 | |||||
| 2020 | Middle income | 2020/21 | audited | 235.05 | 583.03 | 1529.45 | 698.01 | 443.96 | 186 | 3675.5 | 516.07 | 4191.57 | |
| 2020 | Affordable | 2020/21 | audited | 100.74 | 583.03 | 712.15 | 506.01 | 228.06 | 141 | 2270.99 | 325.54 | 2596.53 | |
| 2020 | Indigent | 2020/21 | audited | 356.08 | 314.01 | 670.09 | 100.51 | 770.6 | |||||
| 2021 | Middle income | 2021/22 | audited | 239.75 | 668.01 | 1752.35 | 745.47 | 474.15 | 194 | 4073.73 | 575.1 | 4648.83 | |
| 2021 | Affordable | 2021/22 | audited | 102.75 | 668.01 | 815.95 | 540.42 | 243.57 | 147 | 2517.7 | 362.24 | 2879.94 | |
| 2021 | Indigent | 2021/22 | audited | 407.98 | 335.37 | 743.35 | 111.5 | 854.85 | |||||
| 2022 | Middle income | 2022/23 | audited | 251.39 | 717.92 | 1883.25 | 849.22 | 520.38 | 204 | 31.08 | 4457.24 | 630.88 | 5088.12 |
| 2022 | Affordable | 2022/23 | audited | 107.74 | 717.92 | 876.9 | 593.09 | 267.32 | 154 | 31.08 | 2748.05 | 396.05 | 3144.1 |
| 2022 | Indigent | 2022/23 | audited | 438.45 | 368.04 | 806.49 | 120.97 | 927.46 |
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