 The Apoinga Lutheran Church opened on 10 July 1936 in the former Apoinga School, but the congregation relocated to the Black Springs Church (a former Anglican church) in 1963.The modern locality was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name".A portion of Apoinga was severed and added to Emu Downs on 20 August 2015 to resolve an access problem.