It is a relatively small residential and business area, inhabited by 2 703 (99,4%) an overwhelming Black majority, according to the 2011-census.

[1] It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

The suburb lies in the Johannesburg CBD with Marshalltown to the west and Jeppestown to the east.

Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms that make up Johannesburg, called Doornfontein.

[2] Lying close to the Main Reef gold deposits, parts of the farm were proclaimed as gold claims with this suburb was settled by prospectors from Natal and hence called Natal Camp, one of two original camps established, prior to the surveying of Johannesburg, the other being Ferreirasdorp.