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Lower-risk driving routes in Ekurhuleni

Ekurhuleni is the East Rand: Kempton Park, Benoni, Boksburg, Germiston, Springs, and the belt around OR Tambo. Most drivers pass through it without thinking, because the airport run and the N12 and N17 freight routes cut straight across. It also has the highest share of top-band areas of anywhere we map.

742risk zones mapped
431in the highest band
3ratings per zone, by time of day

What the data looks like here

742 mapped areas across Ekurhuleni.

Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. The split below is how Ekurhuleni's 742 zones fall across the bands at their highest rating.

Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for.

  • Highest 431 58%
  • Elevated 198 27%
  • Caution 80 11%
  • No penalty 33 4%
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Ekurhuleni: 742 mapped zones by risk band
BandZonesShareHow routing treats it
Highest43158%avoided by default on the safest setting
Elevated19827%always costed, avoided on the safest setting
Caution8011%costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
No penalty334%checked and carries no routing cost

Driving here

What matters on Ekurhuleni's roads

  • The R21 and N12 around OR Tambo carry a lot of drivers who do not know the area. That is exactly who this is for.
  • More than half of the flagged areas here sit in the top band rather than the middle ones, which is not true anywhere else we cover.
  • Freight matters here in a way it does not elsewhere. Truck hijacking shows up in the crime data along the N12 and N17, and those roads are rated accordingly.

Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.

Questions

Common questions about Ekurhuleni

Does Tsamaya cover the drive to OR Tambo?

Yes. The approaches on the R21, N12 and the roads around them are mapped, with separate ratings for day, evening and night.

Is the East Rand the same as Ekurhuleni?

Effectively yes. Ekurhuleni is the municipality covering what most people still call the East Rand, so Kempton Park, Benoni, Boksburg, Germiston and Springs.

Also mapped

Other metros

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