By multiplying the number of households with the city's average household size according to census 2011 data, we get a sense of how many people live inbackyarder shacks.

The number of households residing in backyarder shacks across the entire city.

This figure represents the proportion of the city's population living in backyarder shacks. In other words, a bit less than one in ten people live in an informal settlement.

Every city with a significant proportion (more than 5% of total city population) of backyarders should have a strategy to improve the living conditions of people living in backyarder shacks articulated in their core municipal doucmentation.

This figure indicates that 47% of backyard shacks in the Eastern Cape Province is located in East London.

A leading department needs to take responsibility for the strategy.

The growth rate of households living in backyarder shacks is calculated by comparing census 2001 and 2011 data.

Every strategy should be clearly state, without ambiguity and uncertainty, what the city's strategy of improving backyard shacks is. In this way, citizens can hold their governments to account.