Wallacetown is a small town in Southland, in the South Island of New Zealand.

It is served by State Highway 99, which skirts the town's northern edge.

Wallacetown is described as a rural settlement by Statistics New Zealand.

It is part of the much larger Wallacetown statistical area.

The percentage of people born overseas was 8.4, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 53.2% had no religion, 37.6% were Christian, 0.3% had Māori religious beliefs, 0.5% were Muslim and 1.3% had other religions.