[3] Nowadays this neighbourhood is mostly tenement and maisonette apartments with a few shops and a local public house, as well as the old church – by 2017 it was no longer being used for services, with its congregation having merged with that of St Andrew's Church located in the modern centre of the town; proposals were made for it to be sold to a local nursery school and converted for their use.

Down the hill towards Hamilton Road is a supermarket (built on the site of Gateside Secondary School),[5][6] the town's medical clinic and bowling club (Whitefield B.C., who play on the former ground of 19th century football club Cambuslang F.C.)

A further expanse of wide streets lined with sandstone villas, running east–west between West Coats Primary School and Cambuslang Public Park (containing many of the town's most affluent residences), is also loosely referred to as Kirkhill due to the commuter train station serving the area[7] – Kirkhill railway station opened on 1 August 1904 - but historically this was two farms and mining hamlets known as West Coats and East Coats.

In a reorganisation as part of the 2017 Scottish local elections, both areas were included in Cambuslang West.

[12][13] The popular Kirkhill Golf Club[14][15] is not actually within the district; it is located about one mile away up the hill to the south.