Wangoom hosts a general store and post office (first registered in 1877) which provides a range of services including Tea Rooms.

Also located in the main thoroughfare is a memorial town hall, two tennis courts, CFA Fire Station and a disused milk depot.

The Wangoom Uniting Church (formally Presbyterian) on Hughs Road continues to conduct regular services.

Family names that have long associations with Wangoom over the period 1852 to 2011 include Melican, Adams, Crothers, Lee, Flett, Giles, Rea, O'Keefe, Trigg, Dixon, Wright, Mahood, Wickham, Glasgow, Henderson and Bell.

During this period, the club held many of the states major classic events including the Victorian Oaks and Derby and the St. Leger stakes.