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. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.13% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. Residents of the village have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.93 minutes getting to work every day.If knowledge is power, Red Hook is a pretty powerful place. 59.71% of the adults in Red Hook have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns. 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.
