Greenstone Hill | |
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| Coordinates:26°07′05″S28°09′22″E / 26.118°S 28.156°E /-26.118; 28.156 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.02 km2 (0.78 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 6,122 |
| • Density | 3,030/km2 (7,850/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 29.3% |
| • Coloured | 3.2% |
| • Indian/Asian | 17.8% |
| • White | 48.1% |
| • Other | 1.6% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 69.6% |
| • Afrikaans | 10.7% |
| • Zulu | 5.2% |
| • Sotho | 2.5% |
| • Other | 12.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 1609 |
| PO box | 1609 |
Greenstone Hill is a suburb on theEast Rand in theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in theGauteng province ofSouth Africa. It is betweenEdenvale to the south andModderfontein to the north.
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Greenstone Hill, along with its neighboring town ofEdenvale, is near four major roads — theN3 freeway (Johannesburg Eastern Bypass), theR24 freeway (which runs fromJohannesburg city centre toO. R. Tambo International Airport), theModderfontein Road (R25), and theN12 highway.
TheGautrain rapid rail line passes to the east and the north of Greenstone Hill and the closest stations areRhodesfield andMarlboro. As of October 2018, a midibus service links Greenstone Hill to Marlboro station with buses every 30 minutes during peak times and every hour during off-peak times.[2][3]
Greenstone Hill is also the location of theGreenstone Shopping Mall, which was opened in 2007. Expansions of this mall and the nearby Stoneridge Centre, along with other smaller shopping center's such as Eden-Meadows, Greenstone Crescent, and Stoneridge Centre has made Greenstone Hill a big drawcard for shoppers and entertainment seekers from all over the city.[citation needed]
The nearby Longmeadow Business Park has made Greenstone Hill a convenient place to purchase residential property and as a result, a lot of residential development has been constructed or is still under construction here.[when?] These properties are mostly in the form of town houses and apartments within a Body Corporate, but there are also many free standing houses within residential estates. A three-bedroom, two-bathroom town house can be purchased for around R1 550 000 (approx. US$110,000).[when?] The free standing house can be purchased from R2 800 000 up to R6 000 000 (approx. $200k - $428k).[when?]
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The population of Greenstone Hill is generally younger, typically persons who have recently left home or those who have young families. A typicaltownhouse or apartment complex ranges from 600 to 1100 units where these apartments offer renters or homeowners options from 1 bedroom-1 bathroom through to 3 bedroom-2 bathroom variations. Free standing houses are situated within the 5 residential estates (Thorn Valley Estate, Bushwillow Park Estate, Emerald Estate, Pebble Creek Estate and Waterstone Park Estate). All of which are considered to be a very secure living option.Although the square kilometre radius of Greenstone Hill may seem quite small when compared to the neighbouring suburbs, there is a sense of luxury living associated with the area hence a high level of affluent residents and property investors are found in the area.Greenstone Hill seems to portray a fairly decent active lifestyle where a large contingency of joggers and cyclists are noticeable, this is over and above the advent of a number of gyms and crossfit boxes opening up within the area.
