West Rand District Municipality


West Rand District Municipality is one of the districts of Gauteng province of South Africa, that covers the West Rand area, with the exception of Roodepoort. The seat of the district municipality is Randfontein. The most spoken language among its population of 820,995 is Tswana. The district code is CBDC8.

Geography

Neighbours

West Rand is surrounded by:
The district contains the following local municipalities:
NameCodeSeatArea
Population
Pop. density
Merafong CityGT484Carletonville1,631188,843115.8
Mogale CityGT481Krugersdorp1,342383,864286.0
Rand West CityGT485Randfontein1,115265,887238.5

Demographics

The following statistics are from the 2011 census.

Gender

Ethnic group

Age

Politics

Election results

Election results for West Rand in the South African general election, 2004.