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SheetHI-MILILANI-HI · Mililani, HI 27,495 pop · income 88th 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 Mililani
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Mililani on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Pearl · lowest
54,643
Pearl · lowest
54,643 median HH income
26.3% of the leader · rank #1
Cedar Flat · near
124,118
Cedar Flat · near
124,118 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #2
North Springf… · near
124,118
North Springf… · near
124,118 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #3
Mililani · this city
124,123
Mililani · this city
124,123 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #4
Redwood · near
124,125
Redwood · near
124,125 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #5
Echo · near
124,145
Echo · near
124,145 median HH income
59.8% of the leader · rank #6
Belmont · highest
207,609
Belmont · highest
207,609 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 Mililani 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: 27,495.
Nationally, Mililani sits in the 88th percentile for household income among US cities with a population of 1,000 or more. Source: Census ACS.
88th
percentile, household income
96th
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: Mililani, HI
27,495 people live in Mililani, Hawaii - a small city by U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Mililani households earn a median of $124,123 annually, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 1.8%. Mililani's housing stock carries a median value of $884,800, and the median resident age is 45.8 years. About 41.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, while 59.0% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
The city is served by 7 public schools according to NCES Common Core of Data.
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. Statewide, HUD pegs Fair Market Rent for a two-bedroom unit at $2,433 monthly. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Hawaii run around $280, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. Workers in Mililani report an average commute of 28.4 minutes, with 79.7% driving alone and 7.0% working from home. FEMA's National Risk Index rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.0 out of 100 (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Mililani'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 schools and households to housing and income to work and mobility to comparison shortlist; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Mililani, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares, matched public-school count.
No matched row is reported here for within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history, FBI reported-crime rates, local building permits; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
1. Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Mililani?
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 7 public schools within the city match. 41.5% 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.
How far does income reach against housing in Mililani?
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 7.1 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 1.8%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
What does the journey to work look like in Mililani?
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 79.7%. The reported mean trip to work is 28.4 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.
Which cities make useful reference points for Mililani?
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 Kahului (27,068 residents, $92,062 income); Ewa Gentry (26,738 residents, $131,755 income); Kapolei (23,033 residents, $129,260 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Marshalltown, IA (27,491 residents); Bristol, TN (27,490 residents); Lemon Grove, CA (27,489 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.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, Hawaii average
B-
City profile score · Mililani, HI
66/100
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
$124,123
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A
1.8%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share B+
41.5%
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).
Mililani profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 88/100 (A) · $124,123
Poverty rate: 87/100 (A) · 1.8%
Bachelor's+ share: 76/100 (B+) · 41.5%
Cost of living: 8/100 (F) · 110.0 index
How does Mililani compare to other US cities?
Here's how Mililani stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income88% higher than other cities
Home value96% 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 Mililani 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 Mililani near the bottom of Hawaii's cities
Among the 160 Hawaii cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Mililani ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Mililani only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#29 of 155
81st percentile in Hawaii
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Median Home Value
#43 of 150
71st percentile in Hawaii
Poverty Rate
#145 of 160
9th percentile in Hawaii
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#36 of 160
78th 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
88th percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Mililani's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$884,8004th percentilemore affordable than 4% 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
Mililani's home-value-to-income ratio: 7.1×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,722 of 15,516
More affordable than 5% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,128 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 7.1×, Mililani sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,722 of 15,516 and #3,128 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
$124,123Mililani, HI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Mililani, 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 Mililani, HI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)41.5%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)1.8%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)59.0%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
27,495
Median Income
$124,123
Median Home Value
$884,800
Median Age
45.8
Poverty Rate
1.8%
Labor force participation
59.0%
Bachelor's Degree+
41.5%
Schools
Total Schools
7
Public schools in this city
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Average Commute Time
28.4 minutes
Drive Alone
79.7%
Carpool
9.8%
Public Transit
1.9%
Walk
1.0%
Work from Home
7.0%
Other
0.6%
Based on 13,576 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 Mililani. 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 Mililani 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 Mililani sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Mililani 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, 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.