Orchard Grove, an important access road through the suburb, was named so for this reason.

Kinkuna Post Office on Vicki Street near Blackburn Road opened on 8 October 1960 and closed in 1979.

Other smaller parks are also tucked away in the suburb, including Edinburgh Patch and one at Wardle Close, a green corridor between McCracken Avenue and Shawlands Avenue and the Fulton Road – Finch Place link.

These were Blackburn South (demolished to build housing), Killoura (now the Blackburn English Language School), Mirrabooka (the site that Orchard Grove Primary now sits) and Warrawong (demolished to build housing, although the art room still stands and is now the Eley Park Community Association Warrawong Annex).

Blackburn East Primary School, which was not part of the initial amalgamation, closed in 1993.

Blackburn South itself features shops along Canterbury Road, including a Woolworths Supermarket and a McDonald's Restaurant.