Playgrounds are located throughout the new subdivisions in the suburb, as well as walking and bike paths leading to newly created artificial lakes.[timeframe?]

Hartfield Recreation Centre, located nearby, provides gymnasium facilities[8] as well as opportunities for playing AFL football,[9] rugby league, soccer, baseball, cricket and tennis.

Wattle Grove has one major retail facility within its boundaries, containing Aldi, 7-Eleven and various other stores e.g. a bakery, a sushi shop and a gym.

It has two vets, a motel, a number of nurseries, landscape suppliers, agistment paddocks, boarding kennels and a bird, fish and reptile shop.

In 1827 the colonial botanist Charles Fraser and Captain James Stirling explored the region to evaluate its suitability for farming.