In 1873, the village got its own railway station on the Frankfurt am Main-Darmstadt line, and in 1955 the airport was built.

The community benefits from a central location in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region and good transport connections.

With its roughly 77,000 flights (2007), it relieves and complements Frankfurt Airport in the field of general aviation.

The policymakers gave the concept of budget consolidation some thought early on, and then implemented and updated it.

Near the Baggersee (lake) at 50°0′13″N 8°36′39″E / 50.00361°N 8.61083°E / 50.00361; 8.61083 is an American military transmission facility, the European Communications Research Center, with various antenna setups.

[3] The Ernst-Reuter-Schule (Hauptschule and Realschule) was dissolved at the end of the 2003/2004 school year and the remaining classes were merged into the Albert-Einstein-Schule in Langen.

The Egelsbach Swimming Pool Promotional Club (FVFE) is, with its more than 400 members, a charitable club whose goal, through active work and collecting donations, is to keep the outdoor swimming pool on Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße (Egelsbach) running for its users.

Thanks to some active citizens’ initiative, 4,000 signatures were gathered within a few weeks from those favouring maintaining the pool.

A board was formed whose job was to prepare the founding of a promotional club for the maintenance of the swimming pool.