Situated along the Trans-Canada Highway in southeastern Saskatchewan, Wapella lies northwest of Moosomin and is accessible via both Saskatchewan Highway 1 and Highway 601. The town sits on a modest land area of 2.63 square kilometres, placing it within the wide, open plains that characterise this part of the province.
Wapella has a recorded population of 278 residents, based on the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada. That figure reflects a decline of approximately 14.7 percent from the 326 people counted during the 2016 census, continuing a trend of modest population loss seen in many small Saskatchewan communities. The town’s 278 residents were distributed across 117 of its 143 total private dwellings, producing a population density of roughly 105.7 people per square kilometre. Wapella has some notable connections to professional hockey, having produced Brett Clark and Bud Holloway, both of whom went on to play in the NHL. The community also has a historical tie to early Jewish settlement in the region – Cyril Edel Leonoff is the grandson of Edel Brotman, a homesteader and rabbi who served the Wapella farm colony between 1889 and 1906.