Hudson
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About Hudson
Town in Massachusetts, United StatesHudson is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, with a total population of 20,092 as of the 2020 census. It contains the census-designated place of the same name. Before its incorporation as a town in 1866, Hudson was a neighborhood and unincorporated village of Marlborough, Massachusetts, and was known as Feltonville. From approximately 1850 until the last shoe factory burned down in 1968, Hudson was a mill town specializing in the production of shoes and related products. At one point, the town had 17 shoe factories, many of them powered by the Assabet River, which runs through town. The many factories in Hudson attracted immigrants from Canada and Europe. Today most r…
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Housing in Hudson
The typical Hudson home is worth about $621,000, up 1.8% in a year, 6% below the Massachusetts typical home.
A seller's market
Safety in Hudson
Safety Grade B
Hudson reports less crime per resident than 60% of the U.S. towns and cities we grade. Massachusetts has less reported crime than most states, so among its own towns Hudson sits closer to the middle.
Schools in Hudson
All Hudson schools →School Grade C+
The public schools Hudson’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 65% of Massachusetts’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within MA. Ratings are from neighbors.
Where Hudson is
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