Futrther, Vrapčići border to Potoci in the north, the city neighborhood of Zalik in the south, to Kuti and Livač in the northeast, whereas the Podveležje village of Dobrč is located eastern.

The flourishing development of the factory was followed by a boom in the neighborhood around it, as new houses and residential areas for the workers were built, alongside appropriate public infrastructure.

Later, the JNA handed over its positions to the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS), the armed forces of the Bosnian Serbs and their secessionist leadership.

During its withdrawal, the VRS and local Serb paramilitary forces committed the Uborak and Sutina massacre, in which 114 non-Serb civilians where killed as an act of revenge.

[6][7] After winning the Serbs, the northern suburbs where controlled by the Croat Defense Council (HVO) and the 4. corps of the Bosnian Army (ARBiH).

After the HVO attacked the ARBiH on the 9th of May 1993 and the Cosnian-Croat war in Mostar broke out, Vrapčići became part of the secessionist republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.

However, on June 30, 1993, the Bosnian Army launched a successful operation to deblocade Mostar, liberating Vrapčići and most of the rest of the Bijelo polje.

The communal waste deposite site Uborak also has its headquarters here, but its further destiny is uncertain among concerns from local NGOs and the abolishment of its environmental permit (status: 27 December 2022).

From there, express trains towards Sarajevo (e.g. the northern part of the country) and Čapljina depart, as well as long-distance busses towards all other major Bosnian cities and abroad.

In Vrapčići, there is one elementary school, a post office and an outpatient clinic of the Mostar Old Town Health Center (bos.