Though it is a village, it is now a suburb of the city due its close proximity and rapid urbanisation.

Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College, sahayog educational campus are located there Following table shows distance of Vishnupuri from various cities.

Vishnupuri is a part of Nanded South constituency for the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

As of 2019[update], the Member of the Legislative Assembly representing Vishnupuri was Mohanrao Hambarde of the Congress party.

For elections to the Parliament of India, the village is a part of Nanded constituency and has Prataprao Patil Chikhalikar, a former MLA as its representative in the Lok Sabha.