Güzelbahçe's administrative history reflects both the rapid pace of transformation in the last eighty years in İzmir and its vicinity and administrative measures and arrangements inspired by momentary considerations.
There are seven officially constituted neighborhoods in Güzelbahçe and the district center has one depending settlement (Yelki) with its own municipality and around two thousand inhabitants, as well as three depending villages located close, the total population of which slightly exceeds a thousand.