Today, Karlova Ves has approximately 33,000 inhabitants and university dormitories in Mlynská dolina house an additional 15,000 students at the total area of 7874 meters squared.

The city part also features the Bratislava Water Museum, the Slávičie údolie cemetery, numerous schools and three Roman-Catholic churches.

The original village lied on the western slopes of the Bratislava Foothills, the southernmost part of the Devín Carpathians mountain range, in the valley of the Karloveský stream, on both of its sides.

[1] Karlova Ves is divided into five local parts: Dlhé diely, Mlynská dolina, Kútiky, Rovnice and island Sihoť.

A settlement pit containing the ritual burial of a child with an adult's skull dating from the year 5,000 BCE was discovered in the area above the Bratislava Botanical Garden.