Apart from Pialligo, Majura District includes Canberra Airport, three business parks and some farming but little residential development.

A large IKEA store opened on non-airport land opposite the Airport on Majura Road on 16 November 2015.

[5] The Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy lie to the south of Fairbairn Avenue on the edge of the Majura district.

"[6] However, since 2011 properties such as Majura House have begun engaging with the community through sustainable paddock to plate farming including free range eggs, spring lamb, and corn.

The company was known as Majura Valley Free Range Eggs has become a recognised and respected brand within the Capital and surrounds and an important preserver of farming within the region.

Settlements were scarce, and recent surveys show that this was likely a transitory camping area during nomadic journeys between Lake George and the upper Yass River catchments.

His compensation grant was 4,000 acres (16 km2) of land and 710 sheep, after Campbell's ship the "Sydney" was lost off the coast of New Guinea while chartered to the New South Wales government.

[12] A cadastral map of 1 June 1904 shows the name of Campbell's property as "Madura", the British spelling of Madurai.