The cemetery is an Orthodox Jewish Cemetery and is 1.3 acres in size. The cemetery started as a burial society. The entrance off Sunset Avenue is shared with the Chesed Chel Emmes Cemetery. Although Hirsch Hoffert Cemetery is part of the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati (JCGC), Chesed Chel Emmes is not. There are no physical barriers between the adjacent Chesd Chel Emmes Cemetery and the adjacent Judah Touro Cemetery.

The cemetery is owned and operated by:

Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati
3400 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati, OH 45027
Phone: 513-961-0178
Fax: 513-961-2021

On their website under the heading Genealogy, the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati offer a search of burials at all of their cemeteries.

The cemetery is located in the Price Hill neighborhood of the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and is # 4556 (Hirsch Hoffert Cemetery) in "Ohio Cemeteries 1803-2003", compiled by the Ohio Genealogical Society.
The cemetery is registered with the Ohio Division of Real Estate and Professional Licensing (ODRE) as Hirsh Hoffert with registration license number CBR.2010001443.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID 1044764 (Price Hill Cemeteries) has a map location within the Price Hill United Jewish Cemetery but is a collective designation for the group of Jewish cemeteries located in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. That group of cemeteries, which have entrances off Sunset Avenue and/or Rosemount Avenue, includes the Hirsch Hoffert Cemetery as well as the Adath Israel Cemetery, Beth Tefyla / Schachnus Cemetery, Price Hill United Jewish Cemetery, Montefiore Cemetery, Judah Toro Cemetery, Love Brothers Cemetery, Chesed Chel Emes Cemetery and the Spanish-Hebrew Separdic Beth Shalom Cemetery. The term Lick Run Cemetery (or Cemeteries) has also been used to refer to these cemeteries because of their proximity to Lick Run (Creek).