Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Hudson has less crime per resident than 86% of Canadian towns
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. What’s more, the yearly rates were 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 12.9 and 31.2 in the typical town its size. The Safety Grade comes out at A, drawn from crime the police covering Hudson reported through 2023 to 2025: #53 of 503 in Quebec. Its violent half comes to 61.7 and its non-violent half to 30.5, where the norm is 85.7 and 62.8.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Area-wide: crime severity, crime rate and incident counts, counted over the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC.
What stands out about safety in Hudson
A lower index than most towns its size
Set among the 40 Canadian towns closest to it in population, Hudson comes 6th, counting from the lowest Crime Severity Index. Towns its size ↓
Under the Quebec norm
The typical Quebec town scores 56.1; Hudson, 39.2. Towns its size ↓
Above-typical clearance
The weighted clearance rate, the share of crime police solve, is 49% for Hudson (69% violent, 34% non-violent), beside 34% for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. Questions ↓
The violent half stands out
Hudson scores 61.7 for violence and 30.5 for other crime; the typical Canadian town its size scores 85.7 and 62.8. By type ↓
Written from Statistics Canada’s police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025. Figures are what police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Hudson’s grade
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #53 of 503 in Quebec and #279 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Hudson, type by type
Mischief and theft under $5,000 sit below it.
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 2.7 | 0.02 | — |
| Sexual violations against children | 60.3 | 0.4 | 53% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 47.3 | 0.3 | 93% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 6 | 0.04 | 67% |
| Robbery | 23 | 0.1 | 43% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 20 | 0.1 | 100% |
| Other violent violations | 37 | 0.2 | 68% |
| Breaking and entering | 175 | 1 | 18% |
| Possession of stolen property | 74 | 0.4 | 86% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 237.3 | 1.4 | 16% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 52.7 | 0.3 | 15% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 412.7 | 2.4 | 29% |
| Mischief | 269.7 | 1.6 | 21% |
| Weapons violations | 21 | 0.1 | 99% |
| Administration of justice violations | 262.7 | 1.6 | 94% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 58.7 | 0.3 | 72% |
| Drug violations | 78 | 0.5 | 88% |
| Impaired driving | 271.7 | 1.6 | 100% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 294 | 1.7 | 14% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment, incidents a year its own. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
By its index, Hudson stands 6th of 40 towns its size
| # | Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Havelock Ontario | 5,663 | 29.2 | 33.7 | A+ |
| … | |||||
| 3 | West Lorne Ontario | 5,566 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 4 | Southwold Ontario | 5,473 | 31.5 | 41.2 | A |
| 5 | Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay British Columbia | 5,390 | 35.8 | 32 | A |
| 6 | Hudson Quebec | 5,533 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| 7 | Orford Quebec | 5,698 | 39.9 | 58.3 | A− |
| 8 | Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce Quebec | 5,339 | 44 | 75.8 | A− |
| 9 | Saint-Boniface Quebec | 5,405 | 44.3 | 60.8 | A− |
| 10 | Windsor Quebec | 5,368 | 45 | 82.8 | A− |
| 11 | Waterloo Quebec | 5,714 | 45.3 | 73.7 | A− |
| … | |||||
| 14 | Cookshire-Eaton Quebec | 5,491 | 50.5 | 89.1 | B+ |
| … | |||||
| 16 | Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan Quebec | 5,675 | 54 | 93.4 | B |
| … | |||||
| 40 | The Pas Manitoba | 5,634 | 572.1 | 753.3 | D− |
The 40 Canadian towns of 2,500+ people closest in population; city neighbourhoods, city totals and reserves are left out. Towns on one police service or detachment share its index.
The Canadian towns closest to Hudson in population, the lowest Crime Severity Index first (2023–2025 means).
Around 1,430 violent incidents a year in the 170,600-resident police area around Hudson, 2023–2025
Violent incidents per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Property crimes per 1,000 a year, 2023–2025
Statistics Canada counts actual incidents; those police record as unfounded are listed apart and kept out of its crime rates and severity index. Each incident is filed under its most serious violation, which the survey sets partly by the maximum penalty.
Property crime adds about 1,760 a year and other violations 1,130 (2023–2025 average). Of 1,000 dots, one per resident, the coloured ones are a year’s incidents at these rates.
Year by year in Hudson: steady, 2023 to 2025
Crime Severity Index
Its heaviest year fell in the middle, 2024, at 39.9; 2025 was the lightest, at 37.9. Over 2023–2025, the typical Canadian town its size moved from 74.3 to 64.2.
Every year as a table
| Year | Hudson | Typical town its size |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37.9 | 64.2 |
| 2024 | 39.9 | 68.8 |
| 2023 | 39.8 | 74.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Hudson, each year, against the typical Canadian town its size.
Crime in the places around Hudson
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | 5,533 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Kanesatake | 1,872 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
| Saint-Lazare | 22,895 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Oka | 4,312 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 83 | 129.3 | C |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac | 1,340 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
| Vaudreuil-Dorion | 46,413 | 39.2 | 61.7 | A |
Hudson has the lowest index of the places around it. 3 neighbours are on the same police service or detachment: they share the figure and aren’t compared here.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Reading the number. Figures are relative to one fixed point, Canada in 2006 at 100, rather than to this year’s national number.
- Solved cases. A crime is cleared when police lay or recommend a charge, or solve it another way; the weighted rate counts serious crimes for more.
- How serious, not how safe. Police-reported incidents, each multiplied by a weight drawn from court sentences, summed and divided by the population: that is the index, and its makers attach a caution, “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.”
- The whole MRC. The Sûreté du Québec reports by MRC, so the figures cover every municipality it polices there, Hudson among them.
Questions about safety in Hudson
Is Hudson safe?
Hudson’s Crime Severity Index is 39.2 (2023–2025 mean); its police record 8.4 violent incidents and 10.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year. The middle of Canadian towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people is 68.5.
What is the most common crime in Hudson?
The three biggest groups are assault at 4.2, Criminal Code traffic offences at 4 and fraud at 3, each per 1,000 residents a year.
Is crime going up in Hudson?
Not much: the index went from 39.8 in 2023 to 37.9 in 2025.
How much of Hudson’s crime do police solve?
49%, by the weighted clearance rate, where the typical Canadian town its size manages 34%. Violent crime is cleared at 69% and non-violent crime at 34%.
Whose figures are these?
A police service or detachment that covers Hudson and other places, so the figures are shared.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).