Its communities include Hunting Ridge, Uplands, Rognel Heights, Wildwood, West Mulberry, Allendale, Edgewood, and Lower Edmondson Village.

In 1947, Joseph and Jacob Meyerhoff built Edmondson Village Shopping Center, which featured a bowling alley, movie theatre, and acres of free parking.

[1] Retail establishments at the shopping center included Hess Shoes, Food Fair, Tommy Tucker, Whelan's Drugs, and Hochschild, Kohn & Co.[2] Racial succession and white flight occurred in Edmondson Village as a result of the real estate sales process of blockbusting between 1955 and 1965.

Bunk Moreland and Omar Little, both fictional characters from HBO's The Wire, grew up in the Edmondson Village area.

Edmonson Village Shopping Center was a featured location of interest in the Netflix 2017 documentary series The Keepers about the disappearance and murder of Catherine Cesnik.