Kogarah Bay is in the local government area of the Georges River Council.

A small group of shops is located on the intersection of Park Road and the Princes Highway.

Kogarah is from an aboriginal word meaning rushes or place of reeds.

It had also been written as 'coggera' or 'cogerah' but the current spelling was settled when the railway line came through the area in the 1880s.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were Eastern Orthodox 26.3%, Catholic 24.7%, No Religion 18.1% and Anglican 6.9%.