Average maintenance ratio3,51%Only municipalities with reported inputs
Public facts preserved733 90821 datasets · Import coverage incomplete
The national picture · Other public sources
Oversight and services. Beside the money.
Current geography · all municipality types. Each source uses its latest independent period. Local and district responsibilities overlap; observed municipal sums and official source totals are shown separately.
AGSA · 2024/25
Audit outcomes among reported municipalities
5
Adverse
2
Audit not finalised at legislated date
8
Disclaimer
87
Qualified
116
Unqualified with findings
39
Unqualified with no findings
257 reported audit opinions / 257 eligible municipalities. Missing audit opinions are separate from outcomes.
Served consumer units and free basic domestic provision.
Water
Observed served consumer units
15 766 721
Observed free basic domestic units
2 480 126
Official source total · served
15 766 721
Official source total · free basic
2 480 126
Served count: 257 / 257 eligible codes. Free basic: 257 / 257. 154 explicit municipal providers.
Electricity
Observed served consumer units
13 261 834
Observed free basic domestic units
1 849 746
Official source total · served
13 261 834
Official source total · free basic
1 849 746
Served count: 257 / 257 eligible codes. Free basic: 257 / 257. 182 explicit municipal providers.
Sewerage and sanitation
Observed served consumer units
13 990 522
Observed free basic domestic units
2 189 099
Official source total · served
13 990 522
Official source total · free basic
2 189 099
Served count: 257 / 257 eligible codes. Free basic: 257 / 257. 154 explicit municipal providers.
Solid waste management
Observed served consumer units
11 761 128
Observed free basic domestic units
1 981 200
Official source total · served
11 761 128
Official source total · free basic
1 981 200
Served count: 257 / 257 eligible codes. Free basic: 257 / 257. 211 explicit municipal providers.
Consumer units combine domestic and non-domestic units; free basic units are domestic. These counts do not measure resident access, service reliability or quality. The source’s 2023 figures are preliminary; 2022 figures are revised.
Observed financial-reporting consultant costs: R 1,6B · 257 reporting municipalities. Creditor days are not added across municipalities.
Source coverage and qualification notes
Public AGSA website JSON is an undocumented source contract; refresh failures preserve the last verified publication.
66 municipality-service-year records have positive served counts and false municipal provider flags; source values are preserved separately, without attributing an alternative provider.
Only 2022 revised and 2023 preliminary municipal provider data is captured. Consumer units are not household access or service quality.
Changing reporting coverage can affect national totals. These are nominal amounts, without inflation adjustment.
What the numbers tell us
Evidence worth paying attention to.
Evidence note 01
A national picture, with visible gaps
246 of 257 current municipalities have comparable expenditure for 2024. Treasury catalog coverage and dashboard coverage are different; the full import is still incomplete.
Evidence note 02
Financial evidence for better questions
These figures describe municipal finances. They do not establish corruption, individual road conditions, or political causation.
Evidence note 03
Audit coverage
257 municipalities have source audit opinions for 2024.