About Hudson

Hudson is a very small town located in the state of Indiana. With a population of 2,654 people and just one neighborhood, Hudson is the 205th largest community in Indiana.

Hudson is a blue-collar town, with 55.8% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Hudson is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hudson who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.10%), sales jobs (7.18%), and management occupations (6.07%).

Hudson is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Hudson isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.62% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Hudson is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Hudson Information and Demographics

The population of Hudson has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.61% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 14.96%.

The per capita income in Hudson in 2000 was $20,792, which is upper middle income relative to Indiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,168 for a family of four.

The people who call Hudson home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Hudson is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Hudson include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and French.

The most common language spoken in Hudson is English. Some people also speak Spanish.