Abbotsford is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

This suburb lies north-east of the Johannesburg CBD next to Oaklands, Highlands North and Melrose.

It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

It was established in 1902 and the suburb is named after Sir Walter Scott's house called Abbotsford a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed.

[2] In the early 2000s prominent public figures Hazel Crane and Brett Kebble were murdered in the suburb.