Demographics The inner city has 217 000 residents in 37 000 dwelling units. Some 800 000 commuters enter the city every day, and 300 000 - 400 000 migrant shoppers visit the city each year. The city has 7-million m² of floor space and 3-million m² of office space. The office buildings represent a R19-billion investment, and the housing a R1.2-billion capital investment.

JOHANNESBURG grew from a gold rush tent town in 1886 to the financial and commercial hub of Africa at the pace of an historical wink of an eye. In less than two decades from its formal proclamation, the broad outlines of the inner city as we know it today, was already well established.

Johannesburg's great symbolic landmarks are all to be found in the inner city: Hillbrow tower, Diagonal Street, the Carlton Centre, Constitution Hill and the Nelson Mandela Bridge.

The inner city is home to many of the great mining houses and financial institutions that anchor the city's and the country's economy.

It is also a key location and a transportation hub. It is the biggest transport interchange in the country, with many different modes - car, taxi, bus and train, both local, national and international - coming together in the same place. It is estimated that well over 800 000 people pass through the City daily as they go to their different destinations.

The inner city covers Yeoville and Braamfontein in the north to Marshalltown and Benrose in the south, and Vrededorp and Fordsburg in the west to Jeppestown, Bertams and Troyeville in the east.

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