State Highway 8, which links Central Otago with Dunedin city, passes through the town.

An important centre during the Otago gold rush of the 1860s, in more recent times Roxburgh has relied on a mixture of livestock and stone fruit production for its economic survival.

It is one of the country's most important apple growing regions and other stone fruit such as cherries and apricots are also harvested locally.

There is also an opencast lignite mine located just north of town at Coal Creek.

The railway never actually reached the town itself as the terminus was located about 2 km south of Roxburgh at the small settlement known as Hercules Flat.

Today, relics of the town's former status as a railway terminus still exist, including a turntable pit, a water tower for steam locomotives, and the station building has been converted into a hayshed and workshop.

It is a square obelisk and lists the names of the 42 men from the town and local region who died in both World War One and Two.

The Mortar was captured by the 12th Company ( Nelson ) 2nd Canterbury Infantry Battalion on 2 August 1918, and returned to New Zealand as a war trophy.

[7][8] The Maxim Gun was stolen some time during the 1970s and the mortar was relocated on 16 March 2003 when a new Memorial Plaque was placed outside the Council Building & Returned Services Association club-rooms.

[10] Teviot Valley statistical area covers 1,302.44 km2 (502.87 sq mi)[1] and also includes Lake Roxburgh village, Millers Flat and Ettrick.

[12] Roxburgh had New Zealand's oldest operating cinema which opened 11 December 1897 on Scotland Street.