The district is residential and primarily middle-class, and has become an increasingly fashionable address in recent years.

The area South of the village, on what is now Mansionhouse Road, was a popular location for villas in the mid 19th century and included houses designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson and Rawcliffe, a villa which was built in Scottish Baronial style: it was later used as a convent and has recently been converted to flats.

The Camphill Estate was bought by the Glasgow Corporation in 1893 and now forms the basis of Queen's Park.

In the late 19th century as Glasgow expanded South during the rapid growth of the industrialisation in the city, the area was built up with tenements.

House prices are typically higher here than in neighboring boroughs like Shawlands or Battlefield to the west and east respectively, while Langside is also bordered by Queens Park to the north, and the Cathcart Circle train line to the south.