Hawaii Statistics

... General Excise and Use Tax (GET) collections are down by 21.8% from last fiscal year ....

... Hawaii has a fast-food joint for every 1,025 residents ....

... Hawaii Corporate Income tax tops out at 6.4% .... 

...Nineteen states and the District of Columbia are in the highest-rated category, “Working Toward Innovative Equality”....

“...Because of COVID-19, we are all thinking more about lung health. Now is the time for lawmakers to act and take this opportunity to achieve lasting reductions in tobacco-related death and disease....”

... Institutions in Hawaii have only spent 40 percent of total allocated funds ....

... For all of 2020, total visitor arrivals declined 73.8 percent from the previous year .... 

... Research shows that half of Hawaii’s population wants the vaccine and another quarter are still deciding ....

... 36.7% of State revenue comes from GE Tax ....

... "Recent analysis by the Hawai'i Budget & Policy Center finds that this statewide program got out more housing assistance to help renters per capita than any other state effort across the country" ....

... Honolulu ranks 92nd in STEM-friendliness, 97th in Professional Opportunities, and dead last in STEM wages ....

... Nearly 6,000 new systems installed, most with energy storage ....

... Honolulu’s financial problems stem mostly from unfunded retirement obligations that have accumulated over the years ....

... monthly demand was 251,300 unit nights (-59.9%), resulting in an average monthly unit occupancy of 40.5% (-34.9%) ...

... UHERO second quarterly survey of rental property owners and managers ....

... Hawaii vs Alaska Safest COVID States ....

... gas prices to rush-hour traffic congestion to road quality ....

... In December 2020, Hawai‘i hotels statewide reported substantial declines in revenue per available room ....

... Honolulu is the only city where mortgages have taken up more than 40% of homeowners’ incomes in 2010, as well as in 2015 and 2020 ....

... 33 Hours worked to afford median rent for nurses -- Hawaii ranks 43rd ....

... Hawaii Cost of Living Index is 196.3--the US Average is 100 ....

... gaps between black people and white people ....

... potential monetary losses — including both the lifetime and annual cost of a cigarette pack per day, health care expenditures, income losses and other costs .... 

...Of its 117 total traffic deaths in 2018, 45 traffic deaths in Hawaii came when one or more of the drivers had been drinking....

... SWOT Analysis and Action Plan Identify Challenges and Opportunities for Economic Growth ....

... Vaccine doses received 91,700 - Vaccinations administered 35,000 = 56,700 ....

... 8 of 16 Hawaii towns are among the worst 10% credit card debtors in USA ....

... Statewide, the greatest specialty shortages by percentage are: Colorectal Surgery (65%), Pathology (64%), Pulmonology (63%), Infectious Disease (58%), Allergy/Immunology (55%), and Hematology/Oncology (44%) ....

... This annual report includes HDOT Highways Division goals, progress made towards those goals (including statistics), and expenditure breakdown .... 

... 84% of government property grabs go uncontested when local agencies initiate administrative cases with the Hawaii Department of the Attorney General ....

... Hawaii’s population has been declining over the past four years ....

... if your festivities still include popping a bottle of bubbly, the champagne you toast with will be taxed ....

... In November 2020, visitor arrivals decreased 77.3 percent compared to a year ago ....

... All 5 States with Worst Homeless Problems Governed by ‘Democrat Trifectas’ ....

... Soft on Homelessness is inhumane.  The humane approach is to force them off the streets into shelter ....

...a new policy went into effect on November 24 requiring all trans-Pacific travelers participating in the pre-travel testing program to have a negative test result before their departure to Hawai‘i....

... The number of people leaving in fiscal 2020 was almost 5 times what local economic researchers were predicting just weeks ago ....

... Hawaii ranks 25th ....

...The data comes from the firm Safegraph, which collects cellular location data from the apps that run in the background of many people’s smartphones....

... Since July, 26.8 percent of users searching in Honolulu from somewhere else in the country were looking for a short-term lease, up significantly from 14.9 percent at this time last year....

... With a population with a strong demographic base, what has happened to the job situation which makes it so high? The answer in a word is “tourism” ....

... Hawaii sees an average of 410 stolen cars per 100,000 registered vehicles. ...

... However, traffic volumes, or the amount of vehicle trips on the roads, has also been greatly decreased ....

... one less argument for anti-development activists ....

... slightly more travelers arrived in Hawaii than in previous months, when testing was not an option ....

...only 7 Hawaii-based patents awarded in 2019....

...The largest percentage decline in non-farm payroll occurred in Hawaii (-17.3 percent)....

...The DOE said the federal waiver does not apply to the current 2020-21 school year....

...This proves the Green Energy initiative is a sham designed to justify shoveling rate payer dollars to useless non-baseload wind, solar, and battery schemes.....

... This is a five-spot improvement from the previous report, where Hawaii ranked 47th overall ....