Adjacent areas are Cathcart, King's Park, Croftfoot and Castlemilk.
Linn Park is to the south-west of Simshill.
The area had a high concentration of residents of Irish heritage in the postwar period, as members of the city's Irish community moved out to the suburbs from the inner city Gorbals.
[1] Kings Park Secondary School is in the immediate area.
Former residents of Simshill include Sir Alex Ferguson[2] and Carol Smillie.