We show that the intersection dimension of graphs with respect to several hereditary properties can be bounded as a function of the maximum degree. As an interesting special case, we show that the circular dimension of a graph with maximum degree Δis at most O(ΔlogΔ/log logΔ) . It is also shown that permutation dimension of any graph is at most Δ(log Δ)1+o(1). We also obtain bounds on intersection dimension in terms of treewidth. © 2021 N.R. Aravind et al., published by Sciendo.