The Eden district covers an area of 23,331 square kilometres (9,008 sq mi) in the southeastern part of the Western Cape, covering the regions known as the Garden Route and the Little Karoo. It stretches to the Breede River mouth and the Langeberg mountains on the west, where it abuts the Overberg District Municipality and (for a short distance) the Cape Winelands District Municipality. To the north the boundary with the Central Karoo District Municipality runs along the Swartberg mountains. In the east the municipality runs up to the Eastern Cape provincial boundary.

The district is divided into seven local municipalities, described in the following table.

The following statistics are from the 2011 Census. Note that due to fuzzing applied to statistics, columns may not sum to exactly the indicated total.

The council of the Eden District Municipality consists of thirty-five councillors, of whom fifteen are directly elected by party-list proportional representation, and twenty are appointed by the councils of the constituent local municipalities: six by George, four by Mossel Bay, three by Oudtshoorn, two each by Hessequa, Bitou and Knysna, and one by Kannaland. As of August 2012^[update] there are seventeen councillors from the Democratic Alliance (DA) representatives, thirteen from the African National Congress (ANC), two each from the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) and the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) and one from the Congress of the People (COPE). The mayor is Vernatt van der Westhuizen and the deputy mayor is Lionel Esau; both are members of the DA.

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