Economic impacts of COVID-19
This Map of the Month marks two years since GCRO published its March 2020 map on risk factors that might exacerbate the spread and the socio-economics impact of COVID-19. Using the CSIR mesozone layer, it contrasts the percentage of QoL 6 (2020/21) respondents per mesozone that reported reduced salaries and working hours, or lost jobs, between March 2020 and May 2021.
Date of publication:
April 2022
Gauteng’s urban land cover growth: 1990-2020
This map of the month provides a visual representation of urban sprawl in Gauteng over a three decade period. The analysis shows that urban sprawl in Gauteng was more rapid in the 1990s than it was in the 2000s and 2010s.
Date of publication:
March 2022
Economic and commuting connections in the northern GCR
This Map of the Month illustrates some of the ways through which the core areas of the Gauteng City-Region (GCR) are interconnected with their peripheries, including those that are outside the Gauteng Province, but are within commuting distance. These flows signify disparate types of relationships between the city region peripheries and core areas, involving the transporting of mining supplies from Gauteng to Rustenburg mining operations. They also indicate relationships of dependency, including daily commutes from northern Tshwane and former KwaNdebele to the City of Tshwane.
Date of publication:
February 2022
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Voting patterns in the 2021 local government elections
Following previous elections in 2014, 2016 and 2019, GCRO mapped the distribution of votes for the main political parties. Here we repeat this exercise for the November 2021 local elections, this time focusing mainly on the spatial dynamics of a dramatically lower turnout. We also once again plot the votes for the main political parties – the ANC, DA, EFF, and newcomer ActionSA – using the same dot density technique deployed in previous Maps of the Month.
Date of publication:
December 2021
Distribution of population vs economic activity across the GCR
This Map of the month highlights the relative location of concentrations of urban economy and concentrations of people across the extended Gauteng City-Region. It shows that in many core areas the share of total urban economic gross value add exceeds the share of the population, while in many peripheral areas share of population exceeds share of the urban economic gross value add.
Date of publication:
August 2021
