The municipality is located in the northeast part of Bono Region and has Wenchi as its capital town.

The municipality lies within latitudes 7° 30′ South and 7° 15′ North and longitudes 2o 17’ West and 1° 55′ East.

Its closeness to Techiman, a major national market, poses several benefits for agricultural production.

The majority of the people in the municipality derive their livelihoods mainly from the environment thus the land for farming, animal husbandry and settlements.

A good human resource base of the people in Wenchi Municipal depends greatly on their level of education.

This partly contributed to a high drop-out rate at the JHS level as pupils had to commute over longer distances to access a facility.

The municipality recognized the need to improve access to secondary education and started another senior high school at Nchiraa in 2010.

Factors contributing to this included the introduction of the capitation grant, the School Feeding Programme and other such social interventions.

Even though the municipality had recorded some significant increases in the number of health professionals in the past two years since 2008, the numbers in 2010, were still not enough considering that the hospitals in the municipality serve as a referral point for health facilities in the Tain District.