KwaDabeka occupies an extensive area and is subdivided into multi-sections which are primarily in the form of letters.

The predominant problems in this community are poverty, HIV/AIDS, unemployment and lack of economic opportunity, crime, drugs, domestic violence and rape.

The M5 East (Dumisani Makhaye Drive, recently opened in 2017) links it to King Shaka International Airport via the neighbouring suburbs of KwaMashu, Newlands (East and West) and Verulam, to meet the N2 at Sea Cow Lake (R102) or Mount Edgecombe (M41).

It is also linked to the N3 (and Pietermaritzburg) via Wyebank Road, which meets the M13 (King Cetshwayo Highway) at Kloof.

However Wyebank Road is in desperate need of upgrades if it is to serve as the main arterial route linking Durban's Inner West suburbs with King Shaka International.