CP is Delhi's best-connected commercial core. Rajiv Chowk metro station, directly beneath Central Park, interchanges the Blue and Yellow Lines and is among the network's busiest stations; a Magenta Line extension toward Indraprastha is under survey to add a second interchange.

New Delhi Railway Station is about 2 km away, and CP sits at the hub of radial and ring roads linking Parliament Street, Barakhamba Road and Janpath to the rest of Delhi-NCR, with frequent DTC buses and autos supplementing metro access.

CP itself hosts Lady Hardinge Medical College and its associated Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, a Delhi University-affiliated women's medical college on the Parliament Street side of the district. Just outside CP's circles are two of Delhi's oldest schools: Modern School, Barakhamba Road (founded 1920) and the all-girls Convent of Jesus & Mary near Gol Dak Khana (founded 1919), both long-established CBSE institutions.

CP itself is overwhelmingly commercial, so most other schooling options lie in surrounding New Delhi district areas.

Connaught Place is one of Delhi's largest financial, commercial and business centres, housing headquarters of major Indian firms plus international banks and corporates concentrated along Barakhamba Road and Kasturba Gandhi Marg.

Its CBD has repeatedly ranked among the world's and Asia-Pacific's costliest office markets in CBRE and Knight Frank surveys (9th-most-expensive globally in 2018-19, about $144/sq ft/year), reflecting sustained demand from BFSI, legal, aviation and consulting occupiers alongside a dense retail and hospitality trade.

CP is a major Delhi tourism draw in its own right, prized for its Lutyens-era circular Georgian architecture around Central Park. It directly hosts or borders the 1724 Jantar Mantar observatory (on Parliament Street), the historic Hanuman Temple, the step-well Agrasen ki Baoli, and Birla Mandir just to its west; India Gate and Parliament House lie a short distance away.

Palika Bazaar and Janpath's handicraft markets add to its status as a must-visit shopping-cum-heritage stop for visitors.

CP has been New Delhi's entertainment hub since the 1930s-40s, when the Regal, Plaza, Rivoli and Odeon cinemas opened; Plaza and Rivoli now run as PVR multiplexes, and the former Regal Building houses Madame Tussauds Delhi.

Central Park regularly hosts cultural festivals (Urdu Heritage Festival, youth and music events), while legacy eateries like Wenger's, United Coffee House and the Embassy Restaurant sit alongside modern restaurants, cafes and bars that keep the circles busy into the evening.

CP sits within the well-serviced NDMC area, which manages its roads, water, sewerage, electricity and heritage upkeep. NDMC is currently executing a multi-crore renovation of the Inner, Middle and Outer Circle roads and footpaths, following earlier heritage facade restoration and earthquake-retrofitting studies (SPA, RITES), plus an automated multi-level car park (Capitol Point, about 1,400 vehicles) built via a DLF-NDMC public-private partnership.

A Magenta Line metro extension near CP is also under survey to ease congestion.