South African Demographic Maps

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I finally got around to understanding Stats SA's pretty fantastic (albeit a bit clunky) database with census 2011 (or other survey stuff) things; and it reports all census variables to the ward level and allows you to filter the results using control variables (you can control for race, for example). It's pretty great and allows for some cool maps (which can compliment local election maps too, which also use wards).

To begin with, some basic stuff - JHB and Cape Town by race





The census has stuff for language, education, tenure, housing amenities, unemployment, energy sources, migration/place of birth, income (no data on average HH income though, just income groups), family size, type of dwelling and some other stuff. I can do ward maps for individual municipalities; or a national map by municipality.

So - requests?

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Pretoria:



Port Elizabeth:

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Any interest for more? Any specific requests?

[Zanas]

Could you make Durban ? I guess it will be a lot more pink-red.

[Jimross187]

Yeah Durban would be cool, as would rural Northern Cape and Western Cape. Thanks this is awesome!

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Durban



These maps aren't generated, I do them by hand; so I obviously can't do single maps for entire provinces or large regions. The largest I can do, I guess, are specific district municipalities.

I can also do maps for stuff other than race, naturally; if anybody cares...

[Benj]

Do you have data on income? I imagine the figures look similar, but it would be interesting to compare to see where there might be middle class or wealthy Coloured or Black areas (or low income White areas, for that matter, though I suppose any low-income Whites probably live in rural White settlements rather than the cities).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The Durban map is really, really fantastic.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

People need to see this stuff.

[bgwah]

Here are some dot maps I found online. They really show just how packed and dense most black neighborhoods are. Whites have almost completely abandoned the central cities post-apartheid and overwhelmingly live in suburbs. There are often a fair number of blacks in white neighborhoods --- but absolutely no whites in black neighborhoods.

In southwest Cape Town, you'll notice all it takes is one tiny but heavily populated village to make the entire ward black, even if whites dominate most of the land area with spread out mansions. As far as I know, Sea Point is the only densely populated white neighborhood left in the entire country.

Link to 2001 maps: http://datalens.org/post/35117601723/mapping-south-africa-racial-divides

Link to 2011 maps: http://adrianfrith.com/2013/09/08/dot-maps-of-racial-distribution-in-south-african-cities

[bgwah]

Zoomable dot map for the entire country for race, language, and income.

http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/

Have fun!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Great stuff also.

[Indy Texas]

Ignorant American here...what is the difference between Black African and Coloured?

[DC Al Fine]

Ignorant American here...what is the difference between Black African and Coloured?

Coloured's have some European ancestry while blacks do not.

[palandio]

It's a bit more complicated than that. The four-race scheme was implemented by the Apartheid regime in a somehow interesting way. The following description is simplified:
Whites were not only whites of European descent, but also Japanese and maybe sometimes even Coloured Americans for diplomatic reasons (though I'm not sure about the latter). Their language was normally Afrikaans or English.
Asians were mainly Indians and Chinese. Language was mostly English.
Black African referred to "Bantu tribes". In the Apartheid ideology they were immigrants that had to be confined to Bantustan territories and segregated townships. Language was mostly "Bantu" languages except for a few urban Blacks.
Coloureds were the most diverse group. People of both White and "Bantu" ancestry formed only a small part of them. Most were of mixed White and Khoi-Khoi ancestry. But also pure Khoi-Khoi (the Aborigenes of South-Western Africa), Cape Malays (why not Asians?) and even some Mozambican Portuguese (Whites?) were counted among them. Coloureds form the majority in the Western and Northern Cape (where the Khoi-Khoi lived before the Whites arrived). Most of them speak Afrikaans.

[minionofmidas]

The vast majority of the Coloreds have little or no non-Khoi ancestry, actually.

[Хahar 🤔]

What's the dark red ward in Johannesburg?

[minionofmidas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenasia

[Kosmos]

I am loving your maps, very informative.

Would it be possible to ask for maps of other cities, such as Kimberley, Mafikeng, Mangaung, Pietermaritzburg, etc?

[Kosmos]

Zoomable dot map for the entire country for race, language, and income.

http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/

Have fun!

I saw that map as well. Was going to post about it, but you beat me to it lol. He must have put a lot of work into that.

The map really highlighs the extreme levels of segregation in SA.

[Asian Nazi]

Zoomable dot map for the entire country for race, language, and income.

http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/

Have fun!

I saw that map as well. Was going to post about it, but you beat me to it lol. He must have put a lot of work into that.

The map really highlighs the extreme levels of segregation in SA.

Look up dot maps of US cities, especially east of the Mississippi, and it's not much better.  The biggest difference is the insane density of black neighborhoods in South Africa.