All categories
September 2026
Housing and utilities
Covers rent, maintenance and repairs, water services, electricity, gas and other fuels.
Stats SA definition
Stats SA classifies these groups under this category:
- 04.1 Actual rentals for housing
- 04.2 Owners' equivalent rent
- 04.3 Maintenance and repair
- 04.4 Water supply and miscellaneous services
- 04.5 Electricity, gas and other fuels
Source: Stats SA, Consumer Price Index: Sources and Methods, Report No. 01-41-01 (2026), section 2.2 and Annexure 1 – CPI basket of goods and services (COICOP 2018)
Year on year
5.2%
Month on month
+0.5%
Basket weight
24.1%
Contribution to annual inflation
+1.26 pp
percentage points of the 4.5% year-on-year headline
CPI history
History vs headline
Latest year-on-year
Housing and utilities: by province
- 1Western Cape6.6%
- 2South Africa5.2%
- 3Eastern Cape5.1%
- 4Free State4.9%
- 5Mpumalanga4.8%
- 6Gauteng4.7%
- 7North West4.7%
- 8KwaZulu-Natal4.5%
- 9Northern Cape3.9%
- 10Limpopo3.8%