Batu Caves: Condos, Apartments and Area Guide

The town grew around the caves, which sit on a 325 m limestone hill. It now covers housing areas such as Taman Sri Gombak, Taman Batu Caves, Taman Samudera, Taman Selasih, Kampung Laksamana, Kampung Nakhoda and the Taman Industri Bolton industrial area.

Batu Caves is in Selangor and is run by the Selayang Municipal Council. Sentul and Setapak to the south are in Kuala Lumpur.

Batu Caves is in the Gombak seat (P.098), in the Sungai Tua state seat. DOSM gives income for the whole seat, which also covers Gombak town and Hulu Kelang. Its median household earned RM 10,570 a month in 2024, up from RM 10,756 in 2022, against a Selangor median of RM 10,726. About 367,600 people lived in the seat in 2024.

In NAPIC sales in the 12 Batu Caves buildings we matched, a condominium or apartment sold for a median of RM 349 psf in 2024 and a flat for RM 257 psf. For all high-rise sales in Gombak district the 2024 median was RM 328 psf. There were too few matched sales in 2025 for a reliable median.

• Symphony Heights: condos in Batu Caves.
• Radius Residence: apartments in Batu Caves.
• Batu Caves Centerpoint: apartments at Taman Industri Bolton.
• Laksamana Puri: apartments in Kampung Laksamana.
• 168 Park Residensi Selayang: apartments on the Selayang side of Batu Caves.
• Pangsapuri Wira Damai: apartments in Kampung Bahtera.

• Secondary schools: SMK Seri Gombak, SMK Hillcrest, SMK Taman Selayang and SMK Seri Selayang.
• Primary schools include SK Taman Seri Gombak, SK Taman Samudera and SJK (T) Batu Caves.

• Selayang Hospital, the government hospital for the area, on the Selayang-Kepong highway with a Batu Caves address.

• Batu Caves temple: the Murugan shrine in the largest cave, the 42.7 m golden Murugan statue unveiled in 2006, and the Ramayana Cave.
• Thaipusam: the yearly festival draws large crowds and Jalan Batu Caves is closed to traffic.
• Rock climbing on nearly 160 routes at the Damai side of the hill.

• Batu Caves Komuter station, reopened in August 2010, is the northern end of the KTM Batu Caves-Pulau Sebang Line and sits next to the caves.
• Buses: Rapid KL and Selangor Omnibus.
• Roads: the MRR2 (Federal Route 28) runs past the town, with nearby links to the Duta-Ulu Klang Expressway and the East Coast Expressway.

No. Batu Caves is in Gombak district, Selangor, about 13 km north of central Kuala Lumpur.

Batu Caves is in the Gombak seat (P.098). The whole seat had a median household income of RM 10,570 a month in 2024 (DOSM).

In NAPIC sales in the Batu Caves buildings we matched, condos and apartments sold for a median of RM 349 psf in 2024.

Take the KTM Komuter Batu Caves-Pulau Sebang Line to Batu Caves station, which ends next to the caves.