Hinsdale is located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago and is bordered by Oak Brook to the north, and Burr Ridge and Willowbrook to the south, Western Springs to the east, Clarendon Hills and Westmont to the west.

Hinsdale's downtown area is a National Register Historic District.

[11] The downtown area is located in the center of town and is remarkably little changed considering the many teardowns that have occurred over time.

There are restaurants, different types of shops, and various services including the primary train station.

The Robbins Park district just east of downtown, bounded by Garfield Street and County Line Road, and Hinsdale Avenue and 9th Street, is a National Register Historic District also.

[12] The six individual Hinsdale buildings on the National Register of Historic Places are the Orland P. Bassett House at 329 E. Sixth St., the Robert A. and Mary Childs House at 318 S. Garfield Ave., Immanuel Evangelical Church at 302 S. Grant St., the Francis Stuyvesant Peabody House at 8 E. Third St. and the William Whitney House at 142 E. First St.[11] Another significant architectural landmark is the R. Harold Zook Home and Studio, which was originally located at 327 S. Oak Street and was saved from demolition in 2005 by relocation to the Katherine Legge Memorial Park, 5941 S. County Line Road.

[17] The community is served by the United States Postal Service Hinsdale Post Office.

St Isaac Jogues is a K-8 Catholic Grade School also located in Hinsdale.

[22] The Hinsdale Public Library is located in the west wing of the Memorial Building.

[citation needed] In 1988, the Memorial Building received an addition on the west side, and the library and the village administration swapped places.

According to Hinsdale's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,[26] the top employers in the city are: The Katherine Legge Memorial Park and Lodge, located on 52 acres (21 ha) of woodland, was donated to the Village of Hinsdale in 1973.

The lodge, built in 1927, may be rented for private and corporate events such as banquets, meetings, parties, picnics, receptions, and weddings.

[27] The park has a clubhouse with meeting rooms, a football/soccer field, a picnic area, playground apparatus, a scenic open space, a shelter, a frisbee golf course, a sledding hill, and four platform tennis courts.

The 14.50-acre (5.87 ha) Robbins Park has a football/soccer field, a playground apparatus, and two tennis courts.

The 2.33-acre (0.94 ha) Stough Park has ice skating, a playground apparatus, and two tennis courts.