Wantage City, New York, is located on the Hudson River. This small city is home to 10,899 people. The climate in Wantage is fairly cool, with a daily high of 57 degrees. Rainfall is low at about 3.38 mm per day, and there are 53 percent of the days with sun.
Wantage has an extensive history of settlement and development, and was the site of a church as early as the tenth century. The Church of St Peter and Saint Paul, built in the thirteenth century, contains seventeen fifteenth-century misericords. It is also home to the King Alfred School and a highly carved Norman doorway from the town's old chantry chapel.
The town is home to several charities and almshouses. One of these is the House of Charity, run by the Sisters of Mercy. It is possible to find traces of the building still in operation as a care home for the elderly. Other charities in the area included the Union Workhouse, which had over 100 inmates in 1851, most of them agricultural laborers.
The crime rate in Wantage is one of the lowest in the county of Oxfordshire. The rate of crime in Wantage is only 64 per thousand people in 2021, which is about 6% lower than in the county of Oxfordshire.