Reddick is a tiny town located in the state of Florida. With a population of 496 people and two associated neighborhoods, Reddick is the 470th largest community in Florida.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Reddick is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Reddick is a town of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Reddick who work in art, media, and design (22.37%), farm management occupations (21.05%), and office and administrative support (11.18%). Of important note, Reddick is also a town of artists. Reddick has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Reddick’s character. In addition, many people in Reddick have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 50.00% 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. The overall crime rate in Reddick is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Reddick has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Reddick has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Reddick than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Reddick may be for you. One downside of living in Reddick is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Reddick, the average commute to work is 34.90 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Reddick does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of people in Reddick with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.55% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Reddick in 2022 was $54,712, which is upper middle income relative to Florida, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $218,848 for a family of four. However, Reddick contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Reddick is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Reddick home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Reddick residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Reddick include English, German, African, Irish, and French. Reddick also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 22.20%. The most common language spoken in Reddick is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
