It is located immediately north-east of Adelaide Airport and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) base on Sir Donald Bradman Drive (the Boulevard of Honour [2]) .

[3][5] The intersection of Marion Road and Sir Donald Bradman Drive (in the southeast corner of Brooklyn Park) was allocated 45 million dollars by the Federal and State Governments for upgrades in 2022.

CoreLogic's "Best of the Best" report released in late December 2020 identified Brooklyn Park on the national list of suburbs around Australia with higher growth in value than any other capital city location in 2020.

[13] The real estate industry cites the location between the city and the sea in addition to the rarity of homes in this area being put up for sale as some of the reasons for this demand.

Reasons for the shift include proximity to Adelaide Airport, encroaching suburbia, and the perceived need to upgrade to more powerful transmitters and a taller, more efficient antenna.

Trees For Life delivers conservation, revegetation, carbon offsetting[35] community engagement, training programs and services to assist the environment.

[43] The club joins a growing number of other boutique dining and coffee places in Brooklyn Park, including the[44] pizza and cocktail bar "Chicco Palms" which has proven to be a drawcard across the Adelaide metro area since 2017.

[45] The 1950s styled "Chicco Palms" boasts a wood oven for cooking pizzas that was custom made in Naples, Italy.

1888)[47] on Marion Road, Brooklyn Park has recently been purchased to develop into a vegetarian restaurant, wine bar, distillery and craft brewery.

[48] This site will be home to a restaurant,[49] which are expected to add a modern dining and wine bar to the metro area along with the new brewery and beer tasting room next door.

[59] Jack's sons Bill and John were successful horsemen, with John (also a district cricketer for the Adelaide Cricket Club)[60] at one point riding 7 winners in a row[52] and winning 22 hurdle and steeple races in one year which was a record[61] while one of Jack's daughters, Mary McGowan, was a well known pioneer horsewoman and jockey of great skill [55][62] who won 16 trophies in 16 races in the 1920s.

[72] Malcolm Allan's nephew and Jack McGowan's grandson Steven Mowday (who was raised and schooled in Brooklyn Park as an inaugural St John Bosco Primary School student in 1954) was understudy to and took over from Allan, collecting his first harness racing win on the same horse "Mamre" in 1971.

[72] Notable Brooklyn Park residents in recent years have included multiple ARIA winning classical guitarist Slava Grigoryan and his cellist wife Sharon, who was a member of the Australian String Quartet.