Red Hook is a very small village located in the state of New York. With a population of 1,963 people and five associated neighborhoods, Red Hook is the 601st largest community in New York.Red Hook is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 95.09% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Red Hook is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Red Hook who work in teaching (18.71%), computer science and math (12.07%), and sales jobs (10.53%). Also of interest is that Red Hook has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Of important note, Red Hook is also a village of artists. Red Hook has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Red Hook’s character. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.13% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Red Hook spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.93 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the village are less than they would otherwise be.Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Red Hook. 59.71% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%. The per capita income in Red Hook in 2022 was $54,154, which is upper middle income relative to New York, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $216,616 for a family of four. However, Red Hook contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Red Hook home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Red Hook residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Red Hook include Irish, English, German, Italian, and European. The most common language spoken in Red Hook is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and African languages.
