West Albury covers the slopes of Nail Can Hill on the Murray River floodplain, and is bordered by Central Albury to the east, Splitters Creek to the west, Glenroy to the north, and the Murray River and Victoria to the south.

Like the rest of Albury, the area is part of traditional Wiradjuri country, and was known as Bungambrawatha.

Padman Park was cleared, the area on the river known as McKenzies flat was grazed and several fruit orchards were grown.

By the 1990s Pemberton Park, a housing estate on the east side of West Albury, was begun.

The War Memorial was built at the end of Dean Street on Monument Hill on Anzac Day, 1925, and remains the most visible landmark in the city.