Vehicle registrations in Bellville start with CY which also covers the Tygerberg areas of Durbanville, Parow and Goodwood.

Founded as a railway station on the line from Cape Town to Stellenbosch and Strand, it was renamed Bellville in 1861 after the surveyor-general Charles Bell.

Other sports an entertainment includes Bellville library,[10] Bellville swimming pool[11] , Cool Runnings,[12] and PP Smit Sport fields[13] Bellville is one of the main business nodes in the Greater Cape Town metropolitan area, home to the headquarters of major corporations such as insurance giant, Sanlam and its subsidiary Santam, Metropolitan, Pioneer Foods, Cipla South Africa, Medi-Rite, Footgear, Afrimat and the Bible Society of South, with most of these companies headquartered in the Tyger Valley commercial node.

[16] Bellville forms the centre of the Northern Suburbs, and is situated between the low-lying Cape Flats to the south and the rolling hills of Tygerberg to the north.

The town borders Durbanville to the north, Parow to the west, Brackenfell to the east, Kuilsrivier to the southeast and Belhar to the south.

[17] The central business district of Bellville, also known as Bellville Central, situated along Voortrekker Road, is the traditional commercial hub of the town and contains several high-rise buildings and structures, with the Telkom communications tower dominating the skyline.

The R300 (Kuils River Freeway) connects the N1 at the Stellenberg Interchange with Mitchells Plain to the south.

The town is also served internally by metropolitan routes including the M11 (provides a bypass to the south of Bellville Central), M30, M121 and M189.

The shield was divided into twelve horizontal bars of red and gold, representing the original village name of "Twaalfmyl".

Some time later, the blue shield was removed, and the wheatsheaf was placed directly on the black pale.

This version of the arms, re-drawn by Ivan Mitford-Barberton, was registered with the Cape Provincial Administration in February 1959.

[35] The registered blazon was : Barry of twelve Gules and Or, on a pale Sable three church bells Argent.