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SheetHI-HALAWA-HI · Halawa, HI 13,809 pop · income 79th pct
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Halawa
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Halawa on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Waycross · lowest
37,398
Waycross · lowest
37,398 median HH income
25.5% of the leader · rank #1
Fish Springs · near
102,969
Fish Springs · near
102,969 median HH income
70.2% of the leader · rank #2
Mina · near
102,969
Mina · near
102,969 median HH income
70.2% of the leader · rank #3
Pacific · near
102,976
Pacific · near
102,976 median HH income
70.2% of the leader · rank #4
Halawa · this city
102,987
Halawa · this city
102,987 median HH income
70.2% of the leader · rank #5
China Grove · near
103,000
China Grove · near
103,000 median HH income
70.2% of the leader · rank #6
Newington · highest
146,681
Newington · highest
146,681 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Halawa on ACS population and median household income
. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 13,809.
Halawa ranks in the 79th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
79th
percentile, household income
97th
percentile, home value
99th
percentile, median rent
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Halawa, HI
13,809 people live in Halawa, Hawaii - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Halawa households earn a median of $102,987 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 5.1%. Home values in Halawa run a median of $1,005,400, and the median resident age is 47.6 years. Educational attainment runs 30.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.8% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Hawaii carries a cost-of-living premium: the state registers 110.0 on a 100-equals-national-average index (Well Above Average) per BEA Regional Price Parities 2024. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,433 monthly. Monthly utility costs average around $280 across Hawaii, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. Commute times here average 22.7 minutes, with 66.6% driving alone and 5.7% working from home, per Census ACS commuting data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.0 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Halawa's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to housing and income to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Halawa, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates, annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Halawa?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 66.6%. The reported mean trip to work is 22.7 minutes.
How far does income reach against housing in Halawa?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 9.8 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 5.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Which cities make useful reference points for Halawa?
Within Hawaii, the closest population matches are Royal Kunia (13,687 residents, $133,579 income); Waimalu (14,176 residents, $89,016 income); Hawaiian Paradise Park (13,273 residents, $81,892 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Waycross, GA (13,813 residents); Lumberton, TX (13,803 residents); Hawaiian Gardens, CA (13,816 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, Hawaii average
C-
City profile score · Halawa, HI
54/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Household income B+
$102,987
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate B-
5.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C
30.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Cost of living F
110.0 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime N/A
N/A
No FBI UCR violent-crime rate for this place (coverage is incomplete).
Halawa profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 78/100 (B+) · $102,987
Poverty rate: 65/100 (B-) · 5.1%
Bachelor's+ share: 59/100 (C) · 30.7%
Cost of living: 8/100 (F) · 110.0 index
How does Halawa compare to other US cities?
Where Halawa sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income79% higher than other cities
Home value97% pricier than other cities
Median rent99% pricier than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Halawa against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Hawaii only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Hawaii-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Halawa near the bottom of Hawaii's cities
Among the 160 Hawaii cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Halawa ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Halawa only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#57 of 155
63rd percentile in Hawaii
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Median Home Value
#29 of 150
81st percentile in Hawaii
Poverty Rate
#99 of 160
38th percentile in Hawaii
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#76 of 160
53rd percentile in Hawaii
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Hawaii only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
79th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Halawa's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$1,005,4003rd percentilemore affordable than 3% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Halawa's home-value-to-income ratio: 9.8×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#15,338 of 15,516
More affordable than 1% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,282 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 9.8×, Halawa sits in the pressured band:
national rank #15,338 of 15,516 and #3,282 of 3,317small cities (10,000–49,999).
Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median, a comparison flag, not a verdict on any household.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$102,987Halawa, HI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Halawa, HI median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Halawa, HI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)30.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)5.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.8%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,809
Median Income
$102,987
Median Home Value
$1,005,400
Median Age
47.6
Poverty Rate
5.1%
Labor force participation
55.8%
Bachelor's Degree+
30.7%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
22.7 minutes
Drive Alone
66.6%
Carpool
15.5%
Public Transit
3.9%
Walk
2.6%
Work from Home
5.7%
Other
5.7%
Based on 6,905 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Hawaii statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $280
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Hawaii at $280 (electricity about $220 , water and sewer about $60 ).
These are Hawaii statewide averages, not a meter reading for Halawa. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Hawaii's BEA cost-of-living index is 110.0 (Well Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Halawa is $2,433/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Hawaii statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.0 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Hawaii statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Halawa sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Halawa compares to similar-size Hawaii cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.