The St Patrick's Festival is a major annual cultural activity that celebrates the historical links with Westbury and its early Irish community.

The Festival celebrates via song and dance as well as a street parade and other family activities On 30 September 2019 Westbury was named as the preferred location for the new Northern Tasmanian prison.

[5] From early in the 19th century the village green has been the site for the Westbury St Patrick’s Festival celebrating the town’s Celtic links.

Gaelic was the local language in Westbury for many generations and a strong Irish brogue is reputed to have lasted throughout the 19th century.

Westbury has a oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb), with very mild, slightly drier summers and rather cold, wetter winters.

Westbury's largest employer is Tasmanian Alkaloids, a company that specialises in the processing of poppies for pharmaceutical products.