There is a burial pile from the Bronze Age in the Leppävaara sports park, near the exercise path leading to Karakallio.

The medieval village hill of Konungsböle is located near the golf practice ground on Säterinniitty at the end of Leppävaarantie.

[1] After the railway line from Helsinki to Turku was completed in 1903 Leppävaara began to develop as a manor neighbourhood.

During World War I, Krepost Sveaborg, a fortification system of trenches and artillery batteries defending Helsinki was built, passing through Leppävaara.

In Eliel Saarinen's 1915 "Suur-Helsinki" plan the architect proposed considerably large scale buildings around the Leppävaara railway station.

A total of 25 new apartment buildings were built in Puustellinmäki and Vallikallio, until the new construction in the entire area was forbidden in 1964.

Maxi-Market, the first hypermarket in Finland, was built in Leppävaara by Rake Oy and Osuusliike Elanto and was opened on November 4, 1971.

Before this, the southern side of the railway tracks only contained the Maxi hypermarket, a few detached houses and a large amount of farmland.

Southern Leppävaara has been built fairly rapidly and has developed into an urban central area in a short time.

In the 2000s large office blocks and high-rise buildings have been built in southern Leppävaara, such as the Panorama Tower (2008) and Sellonhuippu (2011).

Stops are (from East to West): Ravitie - Vermo - Perkkaa - Leppävaara station / Leppävaaran asema - Albergan esplanadi - Linnoitustie.

The Metropolia University of Applied Sciences previously had its premises in Pohjois-Leppävaara but has since moved to Karamalmi after the city of Espoo announced that the campus had seriously deteriorated.

[8] The national special academy and training facility Live University of Applied Sciences is located in Puustellinmäki.

The park also has a football field, a skiing stadium, a race track, an ice hockey hall with two rinks, the Leppävaara swimming pool and a summertime lido opened in 2016.

South of the railway is one of the largest golf practice fields in Finland, also hosting green card courses.