The census was not authorized here: Statistics Canada lists Kahnawà:ke among the partially enumerated reserves of 2021, reason “Permission not granted”, and publishes no population figure at all. What follows therefore comes from the Mohawk Council and from Quebec's ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation, which counts 11,154 people over 48.7 km² in 2026. The Council records 2,527 households living in what it calls “primarily single dwelling homes”: the entire multi-unit stock of the territory amounts to 26 duplexes, 4 triplexes, 12 quadruplexes, six six-unit buildings and one ten-unit building. Put plainly, the typical address has a driveway to itself.
Two residential areas share the territory. The village sector, north of Routes 132 and 138, which the Council describes as dense and lined with narrow streets. And the newer development just south of Route 132, west of the Mercier Bridge. The rest is houses in clusters at the end of the territory's 29 km of gravel roads — against 72.5 km of paved roads. One last figure weighs heavily when the time comes to pick a spot: 558 individual septic systems remain, mostly in the south, and a leach field will not take a load. The Council's housing survey, run in April 2026 among 367 respondents, gives the measure of the work under way: 56.83% of respondents own their home, and 56% of those owners struggle to pay for their major repairs and renovations.
2023-2029 residual materials management plan for the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke (sections 1.1 and 1.3), the Mohawk Council's Community Housing Survey (PlanIt Consulting, April 10, 2026), MAMH map 670 (February 2026) and Statistics Canada's table of partially enumerated reserves, 2021 census — consulted August 17, 2026.