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SheetHI-ROYAL-KUNIA-HI · Royal Kunia, HI 13,687 pop · income 91st 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 Royal Kunia
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Royal Kunia on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Marshall · lowest
54,815
Marshall · lowest
54,815 median HH income
37.3% of the leader · rank #1
Bass Lake · near
133,482
Bass Lake · near
133,482 median HH income
90.9% of the leader · rank #2
North Falmouth · near
133,571
North Falmouth · near
133,571 median HH income
90.9% of the leader · rank #3
Royal Kunia · this city
133,579
Royal Kunia · this city
133,579 median HH income
90.9% of the leader · rank #4
National Harb… · near
133,616
National Harb… · near
133,616 median HH income
91.0% of the leader · rank #5
Goffstown · near
133,657
Goffstown · near
133,657 median HH income
91.0% of the leader · rank #6
East Islip · highest
146,890
East Islip · highest
146,890 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 Royal Kunia 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: 13,687.
Royal Kunia ranks in the 91st percentile for household income nationally, out of every US city with at least 1,000 residents. Source: Census ACS.
91st
percentile, household income
95th
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: Royal Kunia, HI
Census ACS 2023 estimates count 13,687 residents in Royal Kunia, a small town within Hawaii. Median household income here is $133,579 per year, placing it in the top quartile of U.S. cities for household income, with a poverty rate of 2.2%. Home values in Royal Kunia run a median of $833,000, and the median resident age is 43.6 years. Educational attainment runs 32.9% of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher. Separately, 62.2% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
Hawaii carries a cost-of-living premium: BEA Regional Price Parities 2024 puts Hawaii at 110.0 on a 100-equals-national-average scale (Well Above Average). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $2,433 per month. Monthly utility costs average around $280 across Hawaii, per EIA 2023 residential energy estimates. 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 Royal Kunia'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 housing and income; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Royal Kunia, city-specific coverage includes commute-mode shares.
No matched row is reported here for local building permits, matched public-school count, FBI reported-crime rates, within-city Census tract profiles, annual population history; the page leaves those layers out instead of substituting a statewide or national value.
Question 1
Which cities make useful reference points for Royal Kunia?
Within Hawaii, the closest population matches are Halawa (13,809 residents, $102,987 income); Hawaiian Paradise Park (13,273 residents, $81,892 income); Waimalu (14,176 residents, $89,016 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are East Islip, NY (13,687 residents); Shorewood, WI (13,682 residents); Mercerville, NJ (13,693 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.
What does the journey to work look like in Royal Kunia?
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 71.2%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
How far does income reach against housing in Royal Kunia?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 6.2 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 2.2%, 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.
Highest-decile cost · BEA RPP 2024, Hawaii average
C+
City profile score · Royal Kunia, HI
63/100
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+
$133,579
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Poverty rate A-
2.2%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Bachelor's+ share C+
32.9%
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).
Royal Kunia profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Household income: 91/100 (A+) · $133,579
Poverty rate: 84/100 (A-) · 2.2%
Bachelor's+ share: 63/100 (C+) · 32.9%
Cost of living: 8/100 (F) · 110.0 index
How does Royal Kunia compare to other US cities?
Here's how Royal Kunia stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income91% higher than other cities
Home value95% 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 Royal Kunia 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 Royal Kunia near the bottom of Hawaii's cities
Among the 160 Hawaii cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Royal Kunia ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Royal Kunia only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#16 of 155
90th percentile in Hawaii
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 160
0th percentile in Hawaii
Median Home Value
#59 of 150
61st percentile in Hawaii
Poverty Rate
#140 of 160
12th percentile in Hawaii
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#67 of 160
57th 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
91st percentile nationally for median household income. Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
How Royal Kunia's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$833,0005th percentilemore affordable than 5% 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
Royal Kunia's home-value-to-income ratio: 6.2×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
pressured
> 5.0×
National rank
#14,287 of 15,516
More affordable than 8% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#3,017 of 3,317
Small cities (10,000–49,999)
At 6.2×, Royal Kunia sits in the pressured band:
national rank #14,287 of 15,516 and #3,017 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
$133,579Royal Kunia, HI median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Royal Kunia, 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 Royal Kunia, HI.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)32.9%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)2.2%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)62.2%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
13,687
Median Income
$133,579
Median Home Value
$833,000
Median Age
43.6
Poverty Rate
2.2%
Labor force participation
62.2%
Bachelor's Degree+
32.9%
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
71.2%
Carpool
15.3%
Public Transit
5.6%
Walk
2.2%
Work from Home
5.3%
Based on 7,228 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 Royal Kunia. 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 Royal Kunia 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 Royal Kunia sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Royal Kunia 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.