It was the oldest road in Jurong area, having been first constructed between 1852 and 1853 during the early British colonial period to create a proper road link between the rural areas of Jurong and the rest of Singapore.

The only stretches of road remaining which include "Jurong Road" in their names are Old Jurong Road (Chinese: 旧裕廊路), which runs between the former Bukit Timah Fire Station and Jalan Jurong Kechil, and Upper Jurong Road (Chinese: 裕廊上路), which starts from the western end of Boon Lay Way and ends at Pasir Laba Flyover of the Pan Island Expressway (PIE), after which it continues briefly towards Pasir Laba Camp and the SAF Multi-Mission Range Complex (MMRC).

[f] The stretch of the original alignment between Bukit Batok East Avenue 2 and Jalan Jurong Kechil remains preserved as a park connector in the southern part of Bukit Batok Nature Park.

[g] The section of Upper Jurong Road south of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim[h] was closed on 14 March 1980.

[k] With the construction of the PIE's extension to Tuas, Jurong Road's 1991 alignment was split by the Hong Kah Flyover in 1993.

The former PIE stretch between Jalan Boon Lay and the Hong Kah Flyover was renamed Jurong West Avenue 2 sometime between 1995 and 1998.