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Police station precinct

Kwamaqoma

raymond mhlaba · amathole · Eastern Cape

Latest year 2025/263 financial years of records

Recorded crime, 2025/26

1 364

+7.5%(+95) increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Across the 17 community-reported serious crime categories.

Years of data

3

2023/24 to 2025/26. The South African Police Service reports crime by financial year, which runs from 1 April to 31 March. 2024/25 therefore covers 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

Area snapshot

The 2025/26 total compared with this precinct's own history. Averages skip years the source does not provide rather than treating them as zero.

2025/26Latest financial year
1 364
5-year average2023/24–2025/26
1 300
10-year average2023/24–2025/26
1 300
Historical high2025/26
1 364
Historical low2023/24
1 267

The latest figure is the highest in the available dataset.

What the figures show

Plain-English statements generated from the calculations on this page. They describe what was recorded and nothing beyond it.

  • Recorded crime increased 7.5% year-on-year, from 1 269 in 2024/25 to 1 364 in 2025/26.
  • The latest figure is the highest recorded in the available dataset (1 364 in 2025/26).
  • Assault (GBH) accounted for 25.5% of recorded incidents in 2025/26 (348 of 1 364).
  • The latest figure is 4.9% above the ten-year average of 1 300.

Crime profile

Types of recorded crime that make up this precinct's latest-year total. This is a composition of what was recorded, not a judgement of how dangerous the area is.

Shares are of the 1 364 recorded crimes across the 17 community-reported serious crime categories. Selecting a category focuses the historical chart on that grouping. How this total is defined

Historical context

Recorded crime over the last 5 years, 10 years, or the full available series. Choose a category to match the profile above.

The total_recorded_crime aggregate.

What's changing

Categories with the largest movements between 2024/25 and 2025/26. A change is only listed when it is large enough in both absolute and proportional terms.

Recorded more often

  1. Common assault124 → 161+29.8% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  2. Common robbery30 → 38+26.7% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  3. Stock theft22 → 27+22.7% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  4. Sexual offences44 → 51+15.9% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  5. Residential burglary174 → 201+15.5% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Recorded less often

  1. Murder17 → 7−58.8% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.
  2. Commercial crime80 → 59−26.2% decreased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Crime history

Highest and lowest recorded years for Kwamaqoma, and the largest comparable year-on-year movements in the dataset.

Highest recorded year
2025/26 — 1 364 incidents
Lowest recorded year
2023/24 — 1 267 incidents
Largest year-on-year increase
2025/26 — +7.5%

Unusual movements

The latest year-on-year change compared with this precinct's own earlier comparable movements, not with a national ranking.

Latest movement · recorded crime

Not classified

At least 5 earlier comparable year-on-year movements are required before a latest movement is described as unusual. This series has 1.

Nearby stations

Geographic context only. CrimeMap SA does not assign a suburb to an official precinct.

Other police stations near Kwamaqoma. Distances are from the station coordinates in the source file. A suburb or neighbourhood is not necessarily the same as a police precinct.

Crime detected through police action

Reported separately because these figures largely reflect how much policing activity took place, not how much crime was reported by the public. They are not part of the total above.

2025/26

Total detected through police action210+400.0% increased. Compared with the previous financial year.

Source and methodology

These are crimes recorded by police in the Kwamaqoma precinct, not all crime that occurred there. Cases that were never reported do not appear, and reporting rates differ between areas and between categories.
Figures are counts, not rates. The source data contains no population figure for a precinct, so CrimeMap SA cannot show crime per 100,000 people and does not estimate one. A precinct covering a dense area will usually record more of everything.
Precinct boundaries change over time as stations are opened, closed or redrawn. A large movement in a single year can reflect a boundary change rather than a change in recorded crime.

Figures are crimes recorded by the South African Police Service. Read the full methodology.

Where this precinct is

The source file has a point for the police station, not an official precinct outline. Nearby stations are shown for context.

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