With relatively few residents, Irwindale consists mostly of rock quarries, which are the major revenue source for the city.
The IrwindaleSpeedway is also located in the city, as is the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area and a plant of the Miller Brewing Company.
The housing is centered near the southeast corner of Arrow Highway and Irwindale Avenue, with a small tract of housing in the southwest corner of the city near Cypress Avenue.
IrwindaleSpeedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California.
It is also the home of the Turkey Night races, a Thanksgiving sprint car tradition in southern California since it debuted at the now-closed Ascot speedway in the 1950s.
The venue is also known for drift events, when it hosted D1 Grand Prix's first oversea event in 2003, with a sell-out crowd attendance of 10,000, it had surpassed all other event Irwindale hosted in the past, the previous being 8,700.