Adjacent neighborhoods are Glenham-Belford (north), Cedmont (northeast), Cedonia (east), Pulaski Industrial Area (south), Armistead Gardens (southwest), Orchard Ridge (southwest), Lower Herring Run Park (southwest), Parkside (west), Belair-Edison (west), Arcadia (northwest), Wilson Heights (northwest), and Waltherson (northwest).

[4] The unincorporated communities of Overlea and Rosedale in Baltimore County are also adjacent to Frankford to the east.

The neighborhood's housing stock differed from those south of it, consisting of single-family homes rather than rowhouses which were prevalent throughout the core of the Baltimore City.

[7] Today, Frankford has densified and some of what were once single-family houses have now been converted into multi-family units.

The area remains predominantly residential with Belair Road along its edge serving as a retail corridor for the neighborhoods which converge along it.