The level of service in Gärsnäs is high. There are childcare facilities, a primary school, a health centre, a retirement home, shops, a bakery, a grocery store, a car dealership, mechanical workshops and craftsmen of various kinds.
Gärsnäs has been put on the world map, above all by the village's very successful company Gärsnäs AB, the company that has furnished a wide range of public environments such as parliament buildings and embassies around the world. Not least, good communications have made the station community of Gärsnäs one of Simrishamn's larger villages.
National road 11 runs through the village as does the railway Simrishamn-Malmö. Bus services are well developed and the popular Skåne Express, which runs between Simrishamn and Lund via Tomelilla and Sjöbo, passes Gärsnäs. The village has mixed buildings, both villas, terraced houses and rental properties, most of which were built in the 20th century.
The distance to Simrishamn is just over a mile, to Tomelilla a little further and it is just under three miles to Ystad. Anyone who feels like a refreshing swim can reach Kyhl's beach in a quarter of an hour.
