The original Hunt Club building still stands on Ballarat Road, next to the Deer Park sports oval and is now a community centre.

In the 1920s, Nobel constructed a number of houses around its factory for workers and managers, expanding the former rural village into a substantial industrial suburb.

The station is also served by trains running via the Regional Rail Link which forms part of the Geelong line.

The electrification of the train line to Deer Park was expected to occur in the 1980s, however the project has been ignored by successive State Governments.

Many residents believe the delay in upgrading the train line is related to the fact that Deer Park is situated in one of the safest Labor seats in the country.

Due to more recent development of the Cairnlea estate and improved vegetation on the banks of Kororoit Creek, native species of frogs have taken advantage and have taken up residents in the new wetlands and lakes.

The Deer Park Metropolitan Women's Correctional Centre, which opened on 15 August 1996, was the first privately owned and -operated prison in Victoria.

This area surrounds Mount Derrimut, which saw the relocation of the Sunshine Golf Club to allow its former location, east of Fitzgerald Road, to be redeveloped as housing.