Hawaii Statistics

Total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands in March 2016 set a new record for the month with 786,262....

When it comes to hiring a home health aide, where you live matters....

College Affordability Diagnosis shows that higher education has gone from expensive to unaffordable for most American families....

...Hawaii's aggregate scores are in the highest quartiles of both illegal and legal corruption....

Illinois has the nation’s highest median property tax rate at 2.67 percent, according to new data from CoreLogic, while Hawaii has the lowest median property tax rate at 0.31 percent....

...second in problem gambling treatment....

A new accounting standard is requiring Hawaii to come clean about its pension debt, but the state is still hiding billions of pension and health care debt from its financial reports....

...Compared with 2004‐2005, Honolulu consumers spent more on housing in 2013‐2014, with the share of housing increasing from 31.7% to 43.2%....

...Child care for a 4-year-old costs an average of $776 each month....

"...only four cities—Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.; Elmira-Corning, N.Y.; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Salinas, Calif.—qualified for the 'cleanest cities' list in the "State of the Air' report...."

We reviewed 28,561 U.S. public high schools; 17 Hawaii schools made our rankings....

...Employment Forecasts for the Short-Term Future – 2017....

...Hawaii fails to provide any information at all on recipients of key subsidy programs....

...report examines the non-English speaking population in Hawaii based on data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from 2010 to 2014....

...and the highest total sales and gross receipts tax as percentage of personal income....

...Grassroot Institute says state tax burden continues to stifle economic growth in Hawaii....

...Americans will collectively spend more on taxes in 2016 than they will on food, clothing, and housing combined....

...contrasting state and local tax rates with the quality of the services provided....

School by school reports...

Total spending by all visitors was $43.3 million per day in February 2016....

...Hawaii Cigarette Taxes are $3.20 per pack....

Startclass examined data from the National Center for Education Statistics to find the public schools with the highest tuition increases over the past 10 years....

... the three-year cost of car ownership in Hawaii is $12,065 ....

... Hawaii beer tax is $0.93 per gallon ....

... Honolulu ranks 10th in US traffic time wasted ....

...Oahu ranks best followed by Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Counties....

... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....

This base is far wider than the national median, where the sales tax applies to 34.46 percent of personal income....

Does the Pro Bowl really brings revenue to the state?

Hawaii's debt levels are high for a U.S. state government, and Fitch expects them to remain so....

• Hawaii Island electricity use almost 49 percent from renewables
• Maui County 35 percent renewables; 
• Oahu 17 percent renewables

And Hawaii legislators are considering a gas tax hike ....

In advance of the Hawaii caucuses on March 8 and March 26, the Census Bureau presents a variety of statistics that give an overall profile of the state’s voting-age population and industries....

...Pew Research Center’s most recent Religious Landscape Study....

...lists and ranks states on 39 different tax and fiscal measures, including: rates, ranks, collections, burdens, and more....

The national average of people with a graduate degree or professional degree was 11.0 percent while Hawaii’s population fell slightly short with 10.3 percent.....

At one end of the spectrum, fully 71% of those who live in the District of Columbia, 70% of those in Vermont and 68% of those in Hawaii said stricter environmental regulations are worth the cost....

...a new digital GIS layer to identify commercial agricultural crops grown in the state....

...The nation’s least expensive markets for gas are Oklahoma ($1.42), Missouri ($1.46) and Kansas ($1.47)....

... Hawaii ranks 48th out of 51 for number of bad bridges ....

...State-based estimates of healthy sleep duration prevalence ranged from 56.1% in Hawaii to 71.6% in South Dakota....

The Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) released its first quarter 2016 Statistical and Economic Report.... 

...three sectors that are key to future sustainability in Hawai‘i - energy, agriculture and natural resource management....

Temporary tax increases expired in Hawaii. The three top rate brackets were eliminated, and the top marginal rate fell from 11 percent to 8.25 percent....

According to Gallup, Hawaii is the 2nd most Democrat state but conservatives outnumber liberals by 1.3% and Hawaii is 3rd in self-described moderates....