Its modern boundaries are largely man-made, being formed by the M77 motorway to the west and northwest with the open land of Pollok Country Park and the Dumbreck neighbourhood beyond, by the Inverclyde Line railway and other branches which separate its territory from the largely industrial areas of Kinning Park, Kingston and Port Eglinton, and by the Glasgow South Western Line running from the east to south, bordering Govanhill, Strathbungo, Crossmyloof and Shawlands residential areas.

However, this ended in 1891 when, after being offered favourable tax terms, the residents of the burgh agreed for it to become a suburb of the growing city of Glasgow.

In March 2004, local white youth Kriss Donald was abducted from Kenmure Street in Pollokshields, then tortured and murdered in a racially motivated attack.

[10] The area was subject to local youths causing disorder relating to fireworks in the period around Bonfire Night (5 November),[11][12] to the extent that council approval was granted in 2024 for a Fireworks Control Zone (FCZ) to be issued prohibiting their use (the first of its kind in Glasgow); however, the deadline for submission of the relevant paperwork was missed.

[13] Although some explosives were seized by police and efforts made to clear streets of flammable debris, more widespread disorder was seen that year, including a car being set alight, rockets being fired at moving vehicles and the setting of a bonfire in the middle of Albert Drive which burned for several hours and had fireworks added to it periodically which exploded at random in the direction of residential homes.

[16][17] Pollokshields had a total population of 27,983 as of 2015,[18] however this referred to the wider council ward encompassing several other neighbourhoods (Crossmyloof, Craigton, Strathbungo and parts of Shawlands).

[4][18] The architecture in Pollokshields is predominantly a mixture of Victorian tenements and large detached and semi-detached properties dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[4] One of the more significant residential developments outwith this style is a group of seven 1960s brutalist eight-storey cube-shaped blocks on either side of St Andrew's Drive (west of Shields Road) and an L-shaped complex of contemporary deck-access flats, managed by the Southside Housing Association and refurbished in the 2010s.

[19] At that time most of a larger deck-access complex on the south side of the road[20] constructed in two adjoining 'T' shapes[21] was demolished in stages to be replaced by new properties.

The architecture is mixed Gothic with an early English tower with tabernacles above the broaches of the spire at the southwest comer of the building.

Built in Ballochmyle Red Freestone, it was opened in 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell, whose coat of arms is depicted in the entrance porch in the stone of the Hall and is recorded in marble in the floor.

The lodge house adjacent comprises two flats; the Sanitary Inspector and the Park Gardener used these facilities as living accommodation, and they are currently privately let by the Burgh Hall trust.

The lower ground floor has since attracted further funding and what was once little more than cellar space has been converted to a contemporary conference room, which can be directly accessed from the outside.

Founded in Kinning Park in 1848 by Archibald Campbell, it was formed by members of two previous clubs which played on Glasgow Green, to cater for the burgeoning residential developments south of the river Clyde.