Cato Ridge
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Coordinates: 29°42′58″S 30°36′58″E / 29.716°S 30.616°E / -29.716; 30.616
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
Municipality	eThekwini
Area [1]
• Total	20.18 km2 (7.79 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	3,874
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	92.2%
• Coloured	1.0%
• Indian/Asian	0.9%
• White	5.4%
• Other	0.4%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	78.5%
• English	7.2%
• Afrikaans	4.1%
• Xhosa	3.0%
• Other	7.2%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	3680
Area code	031

Cato Ridge is a town in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa named after George Christopher Cato (1814-1893), the first mayor of Durban.^[2] Organisationally and administratively it is included in the Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality as a suburb of the Outer West region.

Geography

Situated in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, Cato Ridge is the westernmost town of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (Greater Durban metropolitan area) and is actually closer to the city of Pietermaritzburg, 30 km (19 mi) north-west than the city of Durban, 50 km (31 mi) south-east.

Transport

Cato Ridge lies on the N3 freeway which passes the small town to the north, leading north-west to Camperdown and Pietermaritzburg and south-east to Pinetown and Durban. In passing Cato Ridge it gives access to the small town through the R103 interchange (exit 53).

Local arterial routes through Cato Ridge include: The R103 regional route leading eastwards to Camperdown and Pietermaritzburg and westwards to Inchanga and Hillcrest and the M50 metropolitan route leading south-east to Mpumalanga.