It is approximately located 52 kilometres (40 minutes) north-east of Durban and 19 km south-east of KwaDukuza.

Over the past twenty years, there have been residential and commercial developments in the greater area of Salt Rock beyond the original village on previously sugarcane land.

[2][3][4] New Salt City, a precinct envisioning to be a "new city" currently includes the Mount Richmore Village Estate, New Salt Rock Shopping Centre, which launched in 2018 and a private school, Curro Salt Rock (previously Curro Mount Richmore), owned by South Africa’s largest independent school network, Curro have been built within the precinct.

Nightlife in the village is limited with a handful of pubs and restaurants offering a variety of food and drinks.

Salt Rock lies just off the N2 toll freeway passing from KwaDukuza in the north to Durban in the south.