The town contains a number of small businesses and is in the centre of a prosperous and diverse agricultural area which produces wine, stone fruit, vegetables, wool, and cereal crops.

The first European settlers arrived in the area in the late nineteenth century and began clearing the land of its Mallee Scrub and planted crops.

The Woorinen irrigation area was started largely as a soldier settlement following the end of World War I.

4456) opened in 1930 in the Woorinen South township, which had gradually sprung up along Palmer Street on the north side of the Swan Hill to Piangil railway line which was finished in 1915.

Post-primary aged students attend one of the secondary schools in nearby Swan Hill.

The areas around the Woorinen South township have traditionally been used for dry land farming for the production of wheat and barley crops using natural rainfall.

Recent decades have seen the large scale expansion of stone fruit and vegetables in all of the Woorinen areas.

Accommodating this has been the construction of a number of large fruit packing sheds throughout the wider Woorinen area.

Stone fruit, vegetables and grapes produced in the region are sent to national supermarket chains and some is exported to Asia.