Ellenabad Municipal Committee has total administration over 8,387 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage.

It is also authorize to build roads within Municipal Committee limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.

Ellenabad was founded by Robert Hutch, the Commissioner of Hisar during the British Raj, whose wife gave birth to a child in the area.

Ellenabad is situated on state highway number 23 and is 42 kilometres (26 mi) from Sirsa, the district headquarters.

Ellenabad also administrates small villages like Kashi ram ka Bass, Mithanpura, Kishanpura, Karamshana, Dhani Sheran under its greater extended urban region.

The Ellenabad Municipal Committee has a population of 44,452 of which 23,559 are males while 20,893 are females as per a report released by Census India 2011.

Ellenabad has a majority Hindu population, with a significant minority of Sikhs and small Muslim and Christian communities.

Its grain market provides support to farmers from surrounding villages and daily trains connect Ellenabad to Mumbai, Gurgaon, Firozpur, Jaipur, Bathinda, Ajmer, New Delhi, Sri Ganganagar, Abu Road, Ahmedabad, Surat, Sikar, Hanumangarh, Churu and Jhunjhunu.

A lot of students translocate to Delhi, Chandigarh and Jaipur for higher degrees due to lack of these institutions.

A significant number of students also do daily updown in buses and trains for colleges in Sirsa, Sri Ganganagar, Hisar and Bhatinda.

School level education upto 12th grade is considerably good here compared to other cities and towns nearby.

Students not only from the city but nearby villages and towns from Haryana and Rajasthan like Talwara, Tibi, Mallekan, Rania, Nohar, Chaiya, Rawatsar, Chahuwali, Thalarka and Masita Head come here daily for their school studies notably in private institutions for better English medium education.