The Northern Ireland Housing Executive, the public housing authority for Northern Ireland, commissioned and published a report about segregation in the estates; the report was based on national census data gathered between 1971 and 2001 and used 100m cells as the smallest unit.

[3]: 80 Robert Bell Primary School was built to serve about 180 students; as of 1984 it was slated to be closed.

[9] Clarawood has its own park called Clarawood Millennium Park[10] that was improved in the late 1990s under a program called "Belfast 2000: A city with a landscape (Northern Ireland)" that was run by the city government in conjunction with the Millennium Commission; the program developed 6 parks, 3 in West Belfast and three in the east, all in areas "which suffered through the Troubles and four of the six are in areas with high levels of deprivation.

[15][16] As a result, the Rivers Agency the city government created a flood alleviation scheme.

[17] The estate is served by Translink Metro bus route number 4e Gilnahirk via Bloomfield & Clarawood[18] and an Easibus service to Connswater.