[4][5][6][7] The head offices of Draper Tools,[8] B&Q,[9] Utilita Energy, Selwood and Ahmad Tea[10] are located in Chandler's Ford.

It was later sold to Cranbury Park Estate and stopped being a working farm in the late 1970s, when the surrounding area was developed.

In the mid 19th century, Bell's brickfields was one of the biggest in England, producing 35 million bricks for the construction of the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand.

Chandler's Ford used to be a town with mainly housing estates, however there are now various developments of shops and schools that have been built in the area.

Chandler's Ford is considered to be the development to the West of the M3 motorway and now forms the majority of the Eastleigh urban area.

[14] In 2018, an Aldi supermarket opened in replacement of the old Homebase DIY store in the retail park on Chestnut Avenue - introducing new jobs and competition with Asda (located opposite on the main roundabout).

It now has an hourly service run by South Western Railway, from Romsey to Salisbury via Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh and Southampton stopping at all stations in between.

The name Chandler's Ford is used for the civil parish, some (but not all) individual electoral wards, and sometimes a wider geographic area; the boundaries are not entirely consistent.

[18] Two wards on Eastleigh Borough Council, Chandler's Ford and Hiltingbury, cover most of the parish and lie fully within it.

But a significant portion, made up of the Chandlers Ford West and Velmore parish wards, is located in the Eastleigh South division.

[21] As at November 2024 the Parish and Borough councils are both controlled by the Liberal Democrats, with members of both parties representing Chandler's Ford.

Xelabus X6/X7 runs between Hiltingbury and Eastleigh and X5 connects Southampton Parkway and Chandlers Ford stations.

Chandler's Ford made national headlines in September 2007 when an armed bank robbery was foiled: On 13 September 2007, the Metropolitan Police's Flying Squad, in conjunction with the Hampshire Constabulary, foiled the robbery outside the HSBC bank in the central precinct on Winchester Road in Chandler's Ford.