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SheetHI-HONOMU-HI · Honomu, HI 370 pop · income 48th 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 Honomu
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Honomu on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Tiki Gardens · lowest
21,546
Tiki Gardens · lowest
21,546 median HH income
14.1% of the leader · rank #1
Honomu · this city
69,063
Honomu · this city
69,063 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #2
Eagarville · near
69,063
Eagarville · near
69,063 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #3
Good Hope · near
69,063
Good Hope · near
69,063 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #4
Olive Hill · near
69,063
Olive Hill · near
69,063 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #5
Mora · near
69,063
Mora · near
69,063 median HH income
45.3% of the leader · rank #6
Kapalua · highest
152,292
Kapalua · highest
152,292 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 Honomu 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: 370.
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Honomu lands in the 48th percentile for household income. Source: Census ACS.
48th
percentile, household income
80th
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: Honomu, HI
370 people live in Honomu, Hawaii - a small town by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Honomu households earn a median of $69,063 annually, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 0.0%. Typical homes in Honomu are valued around $433,800, and the median resident age is 45.0 years. About 39.0% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 63.3% 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. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Hawaii's average monthly utility costs around $280 (state average). 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 Honomu'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 comparison shortlist to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Honomu, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, matched public-school count, local building permits, FBI reported-crime rates; 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 Honomu?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. Remote work has a visible role in the local pattern. That can reduce commute exposure for some workers, but it says nothing about job availability or broadband quality; read it alongside income and housing rather than as a stand-alone lifestyle score.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 59.4%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
Which cities make useful reference points for Honomu?
Within Hawaii, the closest population matches are Kawela Bay (371 residents, $76,094 income); Kukuihaele (366 residents); Tiki Gardens (362 residents, $21,546 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Powers, MI (370 residents); Cary, MS (370 residents); Maxwell, NM (370 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Honomu?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.3 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 0.0%, 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.
Below median income · poverty 0.0% (Very low poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
110.0 (US=100)
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, Hawaii average
C
City profile score · Honomu, HI
56/100
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.
Poverty rate A+
0.0%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B
39.0%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Household income D
$69,063
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); 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).
Honomu profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Poverty rate: 100/100 (A+) · 0.0%
Bachelor's+ share: 73/100 (B) · 39.0%
Household income: 48/100 (D) · $69,063
Cost of living: 8/100 (F) · 110.0 index
How does Honomu compare to other US cities?
Where Honomu sits among all US cities (population 1,000+) on each measure, computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income48% higher than other cities
Home value80% 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 Honomu 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 Honomu near the bottom of Hawaii's cities
Among the 160 Hawaii cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Honomu ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Honomu only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#128 of 155
17th percentile in Hawaii
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Median Home Value
#118 of 150
21st percentile in Hawaii
Poverty Rate
#152 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#46 of 160
71st 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
48th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Honomu's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$433,80020th percentilemore affordable than 20% 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
Honomu's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.3×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,317 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#10,586 of 11,323
Micro cities (under 10,000)
At 6.3×, Honomu sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,317 of 15,516 and #10,586 of 11,323micro cities (under 10,000).
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
$69,063Honomu, HI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Honomu, 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 Honomu, HI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)39.0%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)0.0%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)63.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
370
Median Income
$69,063
Median Home Value
$433,800
Median Age
45.0
Poverty Rate
0.0%
Labor force participation
63.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
39.0%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
59.4%
Carpool
18.9%
Public Transit
0.0%
Walk
0.6%
Work from Home
21.1%
Based on 180 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 Honomu. 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 Honomu 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 Honomu sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Honomu 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.