Berea, Gauteng

Berea
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Coordinates: 26°11′06″S 28°03′11″E / 26.185°S 28.053°E / -26.185; 28.053
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1893
Area [1]
• Total	1.01 km2 (0.39 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	42,801
• Density	42,000/km2 (110,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	97.1%
• Coloured	0.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.9%
• White	0.7%
• Other	0.4%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	32.9%
• Southern Ndebele	18.7%
• English	13.0%
• Northern Sotho	5.0%
• Other	30.4%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	4001

Berea is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the South African province of Gauteng. It is east and adjacent to the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

It is located in between Yeoville and Hillbrow to the east and west respectively. It was designated as a "white" area during apartheid, under the Group Areas Act. For much of the twentieth century it was a middle-class Jewish area.^[2][3] In the years preceding and after the repeal of the Group Areas Act in 1991, white residents had begun to migrate to the northern suburbs.^[2] The neighbourhood has been home to mostly black Africans since the 1990s.^[2] It became notorious for high levels of crime and population density.^[2] There have, however, been attempts to regenerate the area in recent years.^[4]