Farming (mainly in fat lamb, beef and dairy industries) continues and is now complemented by a diverse range of small businesses.

This was renamed Glen Alvie in 1893 when the railway arrived and a new Jumbunna office was opened near the station.

The shopping precinct at that time had amongst its businesses three grocers, two butchers, two bakers, two drapers, two boot repairers, one fancy goods shop, one barber, one wine saloon, one hotel, one iron mongery, three blacksmiths and several boarding houses, as well as a coffee salon.

(The Store building now has Category 1 heritage listing with the South Gippsland Shire Council.)

After the miners' strike of 1903 to 1904, the town began to decline and many houses were shifted by bullock dray to Wonthaggi.