Mira Road is situated in the north-western portion of Salsette Island, Maharashtra state, India.

The rise of Mumbai's real estate prices has been instrumental in the development of the Mira-Bhayandar region.

From 1947 onwards, primarily developed by Bharat Shah the rise in real estate prices prompted several largely lower and middle-income families to migrate to the satellite cities of Mumbai like Virar, Vasai and Nalasopara.

At that time, the Mira-Bhayandar area was part of a Gram Panchayat and was consisted primarily of agricultural land, majorly rice.

Mira Road is in the Northern part of Mumbai City and lies in the North west ward within the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation Mira Road has three dominant languages with large Gujarati community residing in most of the suburbs of Northern Mumbai that stretches from Bhayander to Bandra, it is also shown in the linguistic demography of the suburb, while the official language Marathi is spoken by the natives of the land and migrants from other parts of Maharashtra, Hindi is the main language of communication and in trade and commerce in the suburban region of Mumbai and Mumbai Metropolitan region, is spoken by most of the North Indian Community as their native language.

The western part of the city is completely made up of barren lands, where salt pans were situated in the past.

In the north lies Vasai Creek, to the east Sanjay Gandhi National Park and the Uttan coast, to the west.

The bus services from MSRTC which are the state transport buses are available to connect with Thane city and Manori.