Due to its proximity to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, it is a rapidly growing city.

Nilai is almost halfway between the state capital Seremban and Kajang, Selangor, and lies on the railway linking these two cities.

There are also suku of Minangkabau people concentrated on other luak in Negeri Sembilan before settling in Lenggeng Village.

The state would also benefit from the construction of the RM1.2B Education Ministry complex which would, among others, house the Aminuddin Baki Institute, Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Pendidikan Teknik, English Language Institute, Tunku Kurshiah College and Nilai Polytechnic as well as the International Islamic University Malaysia’s medical faculty and the International University College of Nursing.

Nilai is also the southern end of ELITE North–South Expressway Central Link which connects it to Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor.

Motorists from western Selangor are thus able to get to Negeri Sembilan, Malacca or Johor while bypassing Kuala Lumpur.

Nilai is part of the Seremban constituency of the Dewan Rakyat of the Malaysian Parliament, currently represented by Anthony Loke Siew Fook of the Democratic Action Party.

[5] On the provincial level, Nilai is represented in the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly by Arul Kumar a/l Jambunathan, also from the Democratic Action Party.