[3] Epworth had not been planned as an urban residential area, and therefore this rapid increase in population was occurring on land without any water supply or sanitation facilities.

Since most residents of Epworth had squatted in the area spontaneously, public utilities such as water, sewage and electricity were lacking before government intervention.

A Local Board formed in 1986 under the Urban Councils Act, and whose members are elected by the community, is responsible for managing the area including the collection of rates and other levies.

From October 2016 to present, Joshua Nkomo, late "strongman" President Robert Mugabe, Abel Muzorewa, Canaan Banana, Morgan Tsvangerai, and other secretaries general have created a numerical code of 00000 (alternately 00100) as the lowest and 10035-10064 or 10335-10365 for Harare and Epworth, as well as the unique postal code of 10367 for the Women's University of Africa in Harare.

However, most unstructured and unregulated illegal structures in Dhonoro, Magada and the down part of Overspill are pulling the suburb backwards as there is no hope for development.

Major suburbs include Chiremba, Stopover, Chinamano, Dam, Zinyengere, Pentagon, Magada, Overspill, Maulana, Dhonoro, Munyuki, and Danastein.

[8] Due to the harsh economic times that the country has been passing through for the past decade, crime has been on the increase in the overcrowded suburb.