It is bordered to the south by St. Boniface, to the west by Elmwood, to the north by Rossmere, and to the east by Radisson.

Concordia is an ethnically diverse riding, with 16% of its human population born outside Canada.

Thirty-two percent of the riding's residents are listed as low-income, and 21% of its households are single-parent families.

Gary Doer was its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from 1986, leader of the NDP from 1988, and Premier of Manitoba from 1999; he gave up all three of these positions when he was appointed as Ambassador to the United States in 2009.

[1] In the event, Matt Wiebe, who previously worked for Doer as a constituency assistant, retained Concordia for the NDP,[2] and he has continued to represent it since.