Adailiya houses a campus of Kuwait's Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) and, temporarily, the colleges of Architecture and Life Sciences at Kuwait University as well as the Kazma Sport Club and religious, cultural, and commercial places.

[3] Before the oil boom, Adailiya was one of the scattered settlements outside of Kuwait City mainly focused on farming wheat and barley.

It bought land from multiple people in 1958, whose names were published in the official Kuwait Today journal.

The ʿAdailiya campus of Kuwait's Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAEET) is located in blocks 1 & 4.

The ʿAdailiya Co-Op Society is the main supermarket and commercial shopping centre in the area.