George Local Municipality (LM) is situated in the Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It has a land area of 5,191 km2 that covers the Southern Cape and Little Karoo Regions of the Western Cape (George Municipality, 2025b).
The municipality has a population of 294,929 people in 85,931 households (Stats SA, 2022). George LM has 28 municipal wards.
99% of households in George LM have access to some sort of sanitation technology. 0.5% of George LM households have damaged, failed, collapsed or flooded toilets. These are plain pit toilets, assumed to be damaged, and include "other toilet provision, below min. service level". 0.5% of household within the municipality practise open defecation.
- Prepared by: George Local Municipality (GLM)
- Date of production: 09/12/2025
- Last update: 09/12/2025
