Chapter 11 - Sedibeng District Municipality

Table 4.1: Employment Status
Region
Number
Analysis Area Employed Unemployed
Economically
Inactive
Total
Unemployed(
%)
1 Ev aton / Sebokeng 71629 93419 99497 264545 35.3
2 Iscor / Vanderbijlpark 24707 3543 17869 46119 7.7
3
Vlakplaas / Mooiwater
AH
14401 14101 13000 41502 34.0
4 Vlakf ontein Farms 30569 23925 35254 89748 26.7
5
Vereeniging /
ThreeRiv ers
12347 2122 7262 21731 9.8
6 Mey erton 13033 3665 7612 24310 15.1
7 Suikerbosrand 11773 3707 6582 22062 16.8
8 Ratanda / Heidelberg 13308 7470 12453 33231 22.5
9 Dev on / Viskuil 4176 2897 3969 11042 26.2
10 Dev on / Viskuil AH 2866 582 1467 4915 11.8
TOTAL 198809 155431 204965 559205 27.8
(b)
Vehicle Ownership
The vehicle ow nership in SDM averages less than 0,4 vehicles per household in the
entire area. Vehicles include all forms of motorised transport. A slightly larger
number of households, namely 0,44 stated that a vehicle is available to the household
for use, including company ow ned vehicles.
(Source: 2002 Household surveys)
(c)
Mode of Travel
From the three municipal areas w ithin SDM, it w as found that motorised transport w as
the predominant mode of travel to w ork. The modal split betw een motorised and nonmotorised
trips is 78:22. 42% of motorised trips to w ork are made by public transport,
i.e. 6% by train,7% by bus and 29% by taxi.
TABLE 4.2 shows the prevalence of non-motorised transport (NMT) modes in SDM
as compared to other modes of travel to w ork.
SDM DITP, 2008 to 2013 29 31 Aug 2010