Demography
Although the number of residents is believed to have grown to about 130,000 today, the latest available official figures come from the census of 2001, which showed that there were then 71,439 people living in the municipal area, of which 48.51% were coloured (mixed race), 28.46%, were white, 22.67% were black African, and 0.36% were Indian or Asian. About 77% of counted individuals were employed, and less than 8.5% were illiterate.
Approximately 73.17% spoke Afrikaans at home, 18.83% spoke IsiXhosa, 5.17% spoke English, 0.34% spoke Sesotho, 0.09% spoke Setswana, 0.06% spoke IsiZulu, 0.03% spoke Sepedi, 0.02% spoke Tshivenda, and 0.01% spoke SiSwati.
The population lived in 15,419 households, of which 78.86% were formal dwellings, 48.32% had telephones in the home, 87.86% had electricity, 89.24% had sanitation, and 68.47% had piped water to their dwellings.
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