The suburb includes the Redruth Resource Recovery Park[2] and landfill.

[3] Saltwater Creek runs along the southern and eastern side of Redruth.

[4] Redruth covers 1.35 km2 (0.52 sq mi) and is part of the Timaru East statistical area, which includes the mostly non-residential areas on the east side of the city including Port Timaru.

The percentage of people born overseas was 26.4, compared with 27.1% nationally.

Although some people chose not to answer the census's question about religious affiliation, 46.2% had no religion, 33.0% were Christian, 1.1% had Māori religious beliefs, 1.1% were Hindu, 1.1% were Muslim, 2.2% were Buddhist and 3.3% had other religions.