Yeoville

Yeoville
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Coordinates: 26°10′S 28°3′E / 26.167°S 28.050°E / -26.167; 28.050
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1892
Area [1]
• Total	0.97 km2 (0.37 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	18,884
• Density	19,000/km2 (50,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	96.5%
• Coloured	1.1%
• Indian/Asian	0.5%
• White	1.6%
• Other	0.4%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	29.1%
• English	21.2%
• Southern Ndebele	15.1%
• Xhosa	4.5%
• Other	30.0%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2190
PO box	2143

Yeoville is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa. It is located in Region F (previously Region 8). Originally intended as a "well-to-do" neighbourhood, it instead developed into a white working class and lower middle class area as the city expanded northwards and public rail access improved.^[2] From the 1920s onwards it became a significant enclave of German Jewish and Eastern European Jewish immigrants.^[3][2] It was designated as a "white area" under the Group Areas Act during the apartheid era.^[2] It became a "grey area" in the 1980s, as a limited number of non-white residents began to rent in the area.^[2] From the end of the 1970s, a growing number of night clubs and galleries opened in Yeoville, or relocated from Hillbrow. This led to the neighbourhood becoming the leading nightspot in the city.^[2]The white population began to decline in the 1970s, and this white flight accelerated in the early to mid 1990s, with most residents migrating to the northern suburbs.^[4][5] Today, it is widely known and celebrated for its diverse, pan-African population but notorious for its high levels of crime, poverty and degradation.^[6]

It is part of Greater Yeoville, a greater territory combining Bellevue, Bellevue East and Yeoville itself and its size, crime, poverty and population density levels is somewhat comparable to nearby Hillbrow. Yeoville is home to Yeoville Boys Primary School, Yeoville Market and Yeoville recreational centre.