To the east of the village are the Devizes Road and Stourton Park housing areas, and Paxcroft, a small industrial hamlet.

The area transferred to Trowbridge, lying south of Hilperton Drive, has around 260 houses, The Mead primary school, and a local shopping centre with a Budgens supermarket and the Red Admiral pub.

Internal changes were made in the 1890s, including relocation of the organ to an enlarged vestry, the addition of stained glass windows, and the installation of the 12th-century font bowl from the church at Whaddon,[12] mounted on a 19th-century shaft and base.

[12][14] St Mary's church at Hilperton Marsh was built as a chapel of ease in 1889, using prefabricated corrugated iron components.

[15][16][17] Whaddon's Church of St Mary is from the 12th and 14th centuries; a chapel for the Long family (later of Rood Ashton House) was added in 1770, and the chancel and bellcote were rebuilt in 1879.

Hilperton electoral division has the same boundaries as the parish, and elects one member of Wiltshire Council;[26] it has been represented by Ernie Clark (Independent) since 9 May 2005.

For Westminster elections, Hilperton is part of the South West Wiltshire constituency,[27] which has been held since 2010 by Andrew Murrison for the Conservatives.

[28] Boundary changes which came into effect at the 2024 general election transferred the parish out of the Chippenham constituency to join Trowbridge in South Wiltshire.

The post office and general stores closed in 2004, though a petrol station (with a small shop) remains in place.

The Kennet and Avon Canal crosses the rural northern section of the parish and forms the western boundary of Hilperton Marsh, where there is a marina.