According to latest statistics, vehicle owners in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal face the highest probability of being carjacked or having their vehicle stolen, while those in the Northern Cape, Free State and Limpopo appear to be at the lowest statistical risk.
These statistics are based on an analysis from AI-driven car insurance provider, Naked, which overlays the eNatis database of registered vehicles (cars and motorcycles) on the 2018/9 crime statistics from the South African Police Service (SAPS) to understand vehicle theft patterns across all nine provinces.
Independent Media reported that Kwa-Zulu Natal, with just over 1 million registered cars and motorcycles, also shows a theft/hijack probability of 1%. It accounts for 13.5% of the vehicle population and almost 17% of stolen and hijacked vehicles in 2018/9. The Western Cape has nearly 1.4 million registered cars/motorcycles on the road, which is 18% of the country’s total, but this only accounted for 14% of the country’s hijackings and car thefts during the 2018/2019 period.
The province with the lowest probability of a crime related vehicle incident is Northern Cape, where only 0.2% of cars were affected during the period.
Click here to read more about the analysis as reported by Independent Media.
