The town lies directly on the route E92 and includes an aerosport facility run by the Poznań flying club, Wanda Modlibiowska.

In addition a bicycle path from Poznań runs through the Dębiniec nature reserve and finally through the town to Pobiedziska.

The etymology of Swarzędz is often taken as a proof for the area's importance in the pre-Christian cult of Svarog.

Administratively it was located in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown.

[7] The local furniture factory was seized by the occupiers and handed over to Germans, while its owner was expelled to Warsaw, and later also imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died of exhaustion in 1945.

[4] Tadeusz Staniewski, mayor of Swarzędz, was imprisoned and tortured by the Germans in the infamous Fort VII in Poznań and afterwards deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was killed in August 1940.

[8] Stanisław Kwaśniewski, commander of the 1919 Swarzędz insurgent unit, was killed by the Germans in Fort VII.

The town has railway connections with major Polish cities such as Poznań, Warsaw, Łódź and Szczecin.