Economically, the municipality is known for extensive greenhouse farming of tomatoes and manufacture of trailers for trucks.

Närpes is a bilingual municipality with Finnish and Swedish as its official languages.

Before that, Närpes was the last unilingual Swedish-speaking municipality in mainland Finland.

[6] Most residents speak a variant of Ostrobothnian Swedish which is known to be difficult to understand for other Swedish-speakers.

Närpes has a history that can be dated back to 1331, when Klas Bengtsson in "Nærpes" pawned goods to bishop Bengt in Turku.