KahnawakeQuebec
With 11,142 residents, it is a First Nations reserve in Quebec. Statistics Canada counts it in the Montréal metro area.
Is Kahnawake a good place to live?
Health is its strong suit (A). Safety is another plus (B+).
As a First Nations reserve, Kahnawake isn’t given an overall grade or ranked. Too much of a reserve’s data is suppressed or uncollected by Statistics Canada for a fair comparison with other towns.
Rents here are the metro area's average, shared by every town and neighbourhood in it. No School Grade: this province doesn't publish comparable results school by school. Health is graded on the health region's survey figures and life expectancy, with the distance to hospital giving the town its own spread. A First Nations reserve: subject grades only, with no overall grade and no place in ranked lists.
How Kahnawake grades
Each subject compares Kahnawake with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.
As a First Nations reserve, Kahnawake isn’t given an overall grade or ranked. Too much of a reserve’s data is suppressed or uncollected by Statistics Canada for a fair comparison with other towns.
How TownRatings grades Canadian towns →
The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kahnawake.
For health, Kahnawake is ahead of 94% of Canadian towns
Health survey and life expectancy for the Région de la Montérégie
The survey counts 11% of adults as smokers, lower than both Quebec’s towns (12%) and Canadian towns (12%). Women in the region live to 84.2 and men to 80.8, 82.5 years taken together (2022/2024). Across the region, 55% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). Measured from where Kahnawake’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km.
Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised
| Health | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic conditions (average share) | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| Very good or excellent health | 55% | 56% | 52% |
| Smokers | 11% | 12% | 12% |
| Life expectancy at birth | 82.5 | 82.5 | 81.5 |
Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities
Kahnawake earns a B+ for safety
Property crime accounts for 12.2 incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Each year, 14.9 violent crimes are recorded per 1,000 residents.
Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year
| 2023–2025 | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Property crime per 1,000 | 12.2 | 16.6 | 31.2 |
| Violent crime | 14.9 | 12.4 | 12 |
Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average
More of the land around Kahnawake is protected than around 9 in 10 Canadian towns
Protected areas open to the public, within 10 km of the town: 25, above both Quebec’s towns (10) and Canadian towns (4). The nearest national park is more than 100 km away. The closest provincial park is Oka National Park (Québec), 20 km from the edge of town. 0.4 km out lies the largest, Lac St-Louis (Centre du Lac) Water Fowl Gathering Area, at 3,183 ha.
Protected land · of the land within 10 km
| Outdoors | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protected land within 10 km | 19% | 4.9% | 2.3% |
| Public protected areas within 10 km | 25 | 10 | 4 |
Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches
Summer afternoons in Kahnawake are warmer than in 78% of Canadian towns
Frosty days number 146 in a normal year, below Quebec’s towns (161) and Canadian towns (159) alike. Rain and snow peak in October, at 103 mm. Between the last spring frost, 29 April, and the first in autumn, 14 October, lie 167 days. Most of the snow comes in January, about 52 cm.
Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Normals, 1991–2020 | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowfall a year | 217 cm | 217 cm | 141 cm |
| July afternoon high | 26.7°C | 26.5°C | 25.5°C |
| Days with frost a year | 146 | 161 | 159 |
| Precipitation a year | 1,041 mm | 1,041 mm | 883 mm |
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Montréal Trudeau (Airport))
Kahnawake keeps a building from 1716: Caughnawaga Mission / Mission of St. Francis Xavier
Inside the town there are 3 historic places, all of them top designations.
Historic places by designation · inside the town
Among them
Canadian Register of Historic Places, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations, Québec’s Répertoire du patrimoine culturel, Wikidata; Census 2021 homes by period
What November brings in Kahnawake: −2°C at night, 6°C by day
For today and the week ahead, the Weather page carries ECCC’s Saint-Constant forecast. A typical November adds 16 cm of snow. By December, a normal day reaches −1°C and a night falls to −9°C. In November, the normal is 84 mm of rain and snow.
Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Season | High | Low | Rain and snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | −3°C | −12°C | 243 mm |
| Spring | 11°C | 1°C | 253 mm |
| Summer | 26°C | 15°C | 268 mm |
| Autumn | 13°C | 5°C | 277 mm |
ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Montréal Trudeau (Airport)); the forecast is on the Weather page
Jacques Ramsay (Liberal Party of Canada) represents Kahnawake in Ottawa as MP for La Prairie—Atateken
From Quebec come 78 MPs, 44 of them with the Liberal Party of Canada.
Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada
Kahnawake has one public library, Kahanwake Library
It sits 3.2 km from the centre of Kahnawake.
Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada
4 boards run the schools in and around Kahnawake
Of the 55, 10 teach in English (10% of schools in Quebec). Teenagers have 3.5 km to go to the closest secondary school, above Quebec’s towns (1.2 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km) alike.
| School | Level | Students | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| Karonhianonha SchoolIn KahnawakeElementary | Elementary | – | Other |
| Kahnawake Survival SchoolIn KahnawakeSecondary | Secondary | – | Other |
| École primaire Saint-Willibrord EnglishTeaches in EnglishElementary | Elementary | – | English public |
Schools by system · Schools within 3 km
| Schools within 3 km | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| School boards | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| Nearest secondary school | 3.5 km | 1.2 km | 1.2 km |
| Nearest elementary school | 2.5 km | 0.5 km | 0.5 km |
Provincial school lists and results, 2025-26 · Source note: the ministry publishes its success rates by school service centre, not school by school, so there’s no schools grade in Quebec.
A flood study covers Kahnawake: 2 on the national inventory, the newest from Gouvernement du Québec
About as many homes carry radon around Kahnawake as elsewhere, 8.2% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%.
Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³
| Hazards | Kahnawake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radon tests above the guideline | 8.2% | 8.2% | 6.6% |
NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory · Area behind the radon tests figures: the Monteregie health region
Everything we know about Kahnawake
Kateri Hall and 19 more in and around Kahnawake
From museums to parks and historic sites: Kahnawake’s places to visit and those just beyond its edge, most famous first.
MuseumCanadian Railway Museum3.9 km outside town, to the east · 47K visitors a year
GardenParc Angrignon3.6 km outside town, to the northeast
MuseumLeBer-LeMoyne House1.5 km outside town, to the north
MuseumThe Fur Trade at Lachine1.6 km outside town, to the north
MuseumMaison Étienne-Nivard-de Saint-Dizier3.5 km outside town, to the northeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Canadian Railway Museum: Fraccle, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Parc Angrignon: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- LeBer-LeMoyne House: Jeangagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- The Fur Trade at Lachine: Adqproductions, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maison Étienne-Nivard-de Saint-Dizier: Thomas1313, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Famous people from Kahnawake
19 notable people were born in Kahnawake.
Photo credits
Waneek Horn-Miller: CBC Sports, CC BY 3.0 · Kahsennenhawe Sky-Deer: Amélanches, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Billy Two Rivers: Unknown author, Public domain · Derek White: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Don Eagle: This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1931 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice . For further explanation, see Commons, Public domain
About Kahnawake
First Nations reserve in Quebec
Statistics Canada counts Kahnawake, a First Nations reserve in Quebec, as its own census subdivision. Statistics Canada has no 2021 census figures for Kahnawake: the reserve wasn’t enumerated, or its counts were suppressed.
Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.
- Population
- 11,142 (people, 2025 estimate)
- Province or territory
- Quebec
- Census division
- Roussillon
- Metro area
- Montréal
- First Nation
- Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke
- Census subdivision
- 2467802
Kahnawake’s neighbours
The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada
| Town | People | km | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kahnawake | 11,142 | — | — | — | B+ | A |
| Châteauguay | 53,508 | 4.5 | B | C− | B+ | A |
| Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre | 31,113 | 6.3 | C− | D− | C | A |
| Cecil-P.-Newman | 34,965 | 6.4 | C− | D− | C | A |
| Lachine-Ouest | 15,315 | 6.5 | B− | C− | C | A |
| Sault-Saint-Louis | 47,270 | 7.8 | C− | D− | C | A |
| Montréal-Ouest | 5,197 | 8.1 | A− | B− | C | A |
People: Statistics Canada, Census 2021. Distances: centre to centre.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population 2021 · population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155) and 2021 census boundaries · Uniform Crime Reporting Survey 2023–25 (35-10-0026, 35-10-0183 to 35-10-0190) · CMHC rents as published by Statistics Canada (34-10-0133) · grades by TownRatings. 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).