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Place dossier plate
SheetHI-KANEOHE-HI · Kaneohe, HI 35,945 pop · income 89th 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 Kaneohe
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Kaneohe on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Lauderdale La… · lowest
44,333
Lauderdale La… · lowest
44,333 median HH income
29.7% of the leader · rank #1
Pottsgrove · near
124,605
Pottsgrove · near
124,605 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #2
Rocky Point · near
124,615
Rocky Point · near
124,615 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #3
Kaneohe · this city
124,632
Kaneohe · this city
124,632 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #4
Country Lake… · near
124,636
Country Lake… · near
124,636 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #5
Lake Petersbu… · near
124,643
Lake Petersbu… · near
124,643 median HH income
83.4% of the leader · rank #6
Moorpark · highest
149,403
Moorpark · highest
149,403 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 Kaneohe 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: 35,945.
Kaneohe ranks in the 89th percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
89th
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: Kaneohe, HI
35,945 people live in Kaneohe, Hawaii - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Median household income here is $124,632 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 4.9%. Home values in Kaneohe run a median of $990,100, and the median resident age is 45.3 years. Educational attainment runs 36.7% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 55.3% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 75.9°F with 50.9 inches of precipitation per year.
Hawaii carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Hawaii scores 110.0 (Well Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. A typical two-bedroom carries a HUD Fair Market Rent of $2,433 per month statewide. EIA 2023 residential energy data puts Hawaii's average monthly utility costs around $280 (state average). The average commute for Kaneohe workers runs 24.4 minutes, with 71.4% driving alone and 9.3% working from home. 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 Kaneohe'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 comparison shortlist to work and mobility to schools and households to climate and hazard context to housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Kaneohe, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for annual population history, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Comparison shortlist
Which cities make useful reference points for Kaneohe?
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.
Within Hawaii, the closest population matches are Kailua CDP (Honolulu County) (39,762 residents, $146,615 income); Waipahu (39,871 residents, $98,633 income); Mililani (27,495 residents, $124,123 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Benton, AR (35,954 residents); Moorpark, CA (35,957 residents); Lauderdale Lakes, FL (35,924 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Kaneohe?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 71.4%. The reported mean trip to work is 24.4 minutes.
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.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
The NCES join finds 12 public schools within the city match. 36.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 75.9°F, with 50.9 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Hawaii is 75.0 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Housing and income
How far does income reach against housing in Kaneohe?
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.
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 7.9 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 4.9%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
Value / income
7.9×
Home value
$990,100
Household income
$124,632
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, Hawaii average
C
City profile score · Kaneohe, HI
59/100
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 A
$124,632
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Bachelor's+ share B-
36.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate B-
4.9%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
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).
Kaneohe profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $124,632
Bachelor's+ share: 69/100 (B-) · 36.7%
Poverty rate: 66/100 (B-) · 4.9%
Cost of living: 8/100 (F) · 110.0 index
How does Kaneohe compare to other US cities?
Here's how Kaneohe stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income89% 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 Kaneohe 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 Kaneohe near the bottom of Hawaii's cities
Among the 160 Hawaii cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Kaneohe ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Kaneohe only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#27 of 155
83rd percentile in Hawaii
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Median Home Value
#30 of 150
80th percentile in Hawaii
Poverty Rate
#102 of 160
36th percentile in Hawaii
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#50 of 160
68th 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
89th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Kaneohe's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$990,1003rd 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
Kaneohe's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.9×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,993 of 15,516
More affordable than 3% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,192 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.9×, Kaneohe sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,993 of 15,516 and #3,192 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
$124,632Kaneohe, HI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Kaneohe, 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 Kaneohe, HI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)36.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)4.9%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)55.3%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
35,945
Median Income
$124,632
Median Home Value
$990,100
Median Age
45.3
Poverty Rate
4.9%
Labor force participation
55.3%
Bachelor's Degree+
36.7%
Climate
Avg Temperature
75.9°F
Annual Precipitation
50.9"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
12
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
24.4 minutes
Drive Alone
71.4%
Carpool
13.0%
Public Transit
2.2%
Walk
2.1%
Work from Home
9.3%
Other
2.0%
Based on 16,993 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 Kaneohe. 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 Kaneohe 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 Kaneohe sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Kaneohe 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, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, 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.