Paddock is situated just south of the Oribi Gorge, a canyon cut by the Mzimkulwana River, which is a popular tourist destination on the South Coast especially for tourists seeking adventure and outdoor activities.

[1] Paddock is administered by the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality which governs the Lower South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal.

It mainly involves a group of commercial and residential farms that have been built south of the N2.

[4][5] Paddock once formed part of the Alfred County Railway which was an 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway which ran from Port Shepstone in the east, through Izotsha in the south-east and Paddock to Harding in the north-west.

The N2 connects Paddock with Port Shepstone to the east and with Izingolweni and Kokstad to the north-west.