Currently represented on municipal council are three parties, the SPD, the CDU and the FWG (a citizens' coalition).

The current mayor is an SPD member whose support on council derives from an SPD-FWG coalition.

Moreover, the district rubbish tip, administered by the ZAV (Zentralstelle für Arbeitsvermittlung, or "Central Post for Work Placement"), lies in the community's outlying countryside.

In the constituent community of Hopfgarten is one of Hesse's few knacker's yards (where old horses are slaughtered and the by-products are sent for rendering).

Renzendorf is home to the community's only railway station, and a location of the Bäckerei Karl (bakery) whose head office is in Storndorf.