It has both expensive and large detached properties as well as more modest town houses built in a variety of architectural styles.

Measuring about 80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft), the site lay along a caravan route linking India and China to Oman and Iraq.

[2][3][4] Historically, Emirati people living in Jumeirah were fishermen, pearl divers and traders.

At the turn of the 20th century, it was a village of some 45 areesh (palm leaf) huts, inhabited mainly by settled Bedouin of the Bani Yas and Manasir tribes.

[7] The locale's peculiar name had its origins in the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company which at one time welded giant floating oil storage tankers called "Kazzans" on the site.