KanesatakeQuebec
1,872 people live in this First Nations reserve in Quebec. It sits within the Montréal census metropolitan area.
Is Kanesatake a good place to live?
Health is its strong suit (A). Police record more crime here than in most towns (C). It also trails on hazard risk (C−).
No overall grade, and no ranking: Kanesatake is a First Nations reserve, and Statistics Canada holds back or never gathers enough of a reserve’s figures to compare it fairly with other towns.
Rents here are the metro area's average, shared by every town and neighbourhood in it. Safety is the Sûreté du Québec unit's figure for the whole MRC. 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 Kanesatake grades
Each subject compares Kanesatake with Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far it is from the middle. Towns in other countries are graded separately.
No overall grade, and no ranking: Kanesatake is a First Nations reserve, and Statistics Canada holds back or never gathers enough of a reserve’s figures to compare it fairly with other towns.
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The data
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Kanesatake.
Few places match Kanesatake for health: it beats 89% of Canadian towns
The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kanesatake’s is long: 16 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Age-standardised, three fifths of the region’s adults put their health at very good or excellent, above Quebec’s towns (56%) and Canadian towns (52%) alike. Across the region, life runs to 82.2 years on average: women 83.7, men 80.8, in 2022/2024. Kanesatake doesn’t get its own health survey and life expectancy figures; the ones here come from the Région des Laurentides.
Very good or excellent health · adults, age-standardised
| Health | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Very good or excellent health | 60% | 56% | 52% |
| Chronic conditions (average share) | 13% | 15% | 17% |
| Smokers | 11% | 12% | 12% |
| Life expectancy at birth | 82.2 | 82.5 | 81.5 |
Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 and life expectancy 2022/2024; Open Database of Healthcare Facilities
Kanesatake is on Canada’s flood inventory: 1 listed, led by Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal
Radon is higher than usual: a tenth of tested homes in the survey area topped the guideline, against 6.6% for the typical town. Earthquakes are expected to cost $0.10 a year for every $1,000 of buildings, lower than Quebec’s towns ($0.14) yet higher than Canadian towns ($0.030).
Radon tests above the guideline · share of tested homes, 200 Bq/m³
| Hazards | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radon tests above the guideline | 10% | 8.2% | 6.6% |
| Earthquake loss per $1,000 of buildings a year | $0.10 | $0.14 | $0.030 |
NRCan seismic risk model and burned areas, Health Canada radon survey, the Flood Hazard Map Inventory · Not measured by town: radon tests (the Laurentides health region)
The force covering Kanesatake records more serious violence than Quebec’s towns or Canadian towns, at 129
The index for the force that serves it came to 83, above Quebec’s towns (56) and Canadian towns (67) alike. Across its police area, there are 20.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The force’s area logs 13.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year.
Year by year · Crime Severity Index for each year
| 2023–2025 | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime Severity Index | 129 | 88 | 86 |
| Crime Severity Index | 83 | 56 | 67 |
| Property crime per 1,000 | 20.3 | 16.6 | 31.2 |
Statistics Canada, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, 2023–2025 average · Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000: one figure for all of Deux-Montagnes MRC
Kanesatake has more protected land around it than 9 in 10 Canadian towns
For a provincial park, Oka National Park (Québec) lies 1.2 km off. CPCAD lists 35 protected areas within 10 km. Within 100 km there is no national park.
Protected land · of the land within 10 km
| Outdoors | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protected land within 10 km | 19% | 4.9% | 2.3% |
| Public protected areas within 10 km | 24 | 10 | 4 |
Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (CPCAD), OpenStreetMap routes and beaches
More rain and snow fall on Kanesatake than on 88% of Canadian towns: 1,178 mm a year
A normal October brings 120 mm of precipitation, more than any other month. Snowfall adds up to 218 cm a year, close to Quebec’s towns (217 cm) and above Canadian towns (141 cm). Gardeners get 143 frost-free days, from 12 May to 3 October. Snow peaks in January: 56 cm in a normal year.
Average high by season · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Normals, 1991–2020 | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precipitation a year | 1,178 mm | 1,041 mm | 883 mm |
| Snowfall a year | 218 cm | 217 cm | 141 cm |
| July afternoon high | 26.5°C | 26.5°C | 25.5°C |
Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 (Lachute)
Expect November days around 5°C in Kanesatake, nights around −2°C
At the extremes, July afternoons reach 27°C and January nights −15°C. The month after, December, normally sees −2°C afternoons and −10°C nights. Snowfall in a normal November: 17 cm. Rain and snow over a typical November come to 93 mm.
Normal highs, the months ahead · ECCC normals, 1991–2020
| Season | High | Low | Rain and snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winter | −4°C | −13°C | 262 mm |
| Spring | 11°C | 0°C | 262 mm |
| Summer | 25°C | 14°C | 327 mm |
| Autumn | 13°C | 4°C | 327 mm |
ECCC normals, 1991–2020 (Lachute); the forecast is on the Weather page
Kanesatake’s MP is Jean-Denis Garon (Bloc Québécois), for Mirabel
Kanesatake is a First Nations reserve, governed by its band council; no open list of band councils is used here.
Wikidata, MAMH, MMAH, Statistics Canada
Kanesatake has no public library of its own; the nearest is Bibliothèque Myra-Cree, 3.2 km away
The next is War Memorial Library Hudson Heights (Hudson), 3.6 km away.
Provincial library statistics, OpenStreetMap, the CRA and Statistics Canada
Teaching in English: 2 of Kanesatake’s 6 schools
They come under 3 school boards. Counting a 3 km margin, Kanesatake has 4 elementary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 school for every grade.
| School | Level | Students | System |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotiwennakéhte SchoolIn KanesatakeElementary | Elementary | – | Other |
| Ratihen:te High SchoolIn KanesatakeAll grades | All grades | – | Other |
| École secondaire Westwood Senior EnglishTeaches in EnglishSecondary | Secondary | – | English public |
Schools by system · Schools within 3 km
| Schools within 3 km | Kanesatake | Quebec | Canada |
|---|---|---|---|
| School boards | 3 | 2 | 3 |
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.
Everything we know about Kanesatake
Musée d'Hudson and 3 more in and around Kanesatake
What there is to see in Kanesatake and within a short drive, starting with the places most people have heard of.
MuseumMusée d'Hudson1.9 km outside town, to the southwestMuseumMuseumGreenwood Centre for Living History1.4 km outside town, to the southNational parkNational park · SépaqOka National Park4.3 km outside town, to the eastZooZooPerroquets en folie3.5 km outside town, to the northwestPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Musée d'Hudson: Cantons-de-l'Est, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Famous people from around Kanesatake
2 notable people were born in Kanesatake; with them, the best known born in the towns around it.
Photo credits
Jean-Paul L'Allier: Simon Villeneuve, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ovide Charlebois: Église catholique, 1936, Public domain
About Kanesatake
First Nations reserve in Quebec
The reserve is its own census subdivision in Quebec, and the figures for Kanesatake cover the whole of it. The 2021 census gives no figures for Kanesatake, either because it wasn’t counted or because Statistics Canada suppressed them.
Statistics Canada: population estimates 2025 (17-10-0155), Census of Population 2021, 2021 census boundaries.
- Population
- 1,872 (people, 2025 estimate)
- Province or territory
- Quebec
- Census division
- Deux-Montagnes
- Metro area
- Montréal
- First Nation
- Mohawks of Kanesatake
- Census subdivision
- 2472802
Kanesatake’s neighbours
The nearest places of 1,000 or more. Statistics Canada
| Town | People | km | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kanesatake | 1,872 | — | — | — | C | A |
| Oka | 4,312 | 3.7 | C+ | C | C | A |
| Hudson | 5,533 | 3.8 | A− | C+ | A | B+ |
| Saint-Placide | 1,751 | 9 | — | C− | C | A |
| Saint-Lazare | 22,895 | 9.4 | A | B | A | A− |
| Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac | 1,340 | 9.5 | — | B | A | A− |
| Saint-Joseph-du-Lac | 7,391 | 10 | A | C+ | A+ | 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).