The town itself is small but services a considerable agricultural region in the eastern Shire of Dumbleyung.

[2] However, in local languages, words such as karkar mean "east", and the townsite is near the eastern edge of country traditionally owned by the Wiilman people.

[2] The primary school and hall were built in 1914, and Kukerin Hotel began trading in 1928—all are still open to this day.

[5][6] It functions as a service town for the surrounding agricultural area, and contains a general store, primary school, hotel, newsagency/post office, and the Nenke Park sports fields.

[7] In recent years this has transformed into the Kukerin Creekbed and Burnout Competition,[8] which is held during the Queen's Birthday long weekend and is hosted at Nenke Park.