Hawaii Statistics

Across all metro areas, Urban Honolulu, Hawaii has the highest cost of living, while Danville, Illinois is the least expensive place to live in the country....

Why? Cost of living is the main issue....

Fortunately, our lawmakers are allowing the three top rates to die a natural death at the end of this year with our highest marginal rate a more modest 8.25%....

Hawaii has just won last place in the latest ranking of business climates among the fifty states....

...96.8% of Hawaii Gays stay outside 'Marriage'....

Total Visitor Expenditures Increased 10.4 Percent to $1.2 Billion....

...by the numbers on just about everything else, Hawaii doesn't measure up, and not only for reasons beyond its control....

In Hawaii only 4.7% of high schools have a 10%+ gender equity gap in sports....

Check out today’s map below to see where your state lies on the wine tax spectrum....

Our data set includes 23 key metrics, such as age, gender and income as well as household makeup and housing tenure....

...the median district in states like Hawaii, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming is more than 70% to 30% for the majority party....

...A total of 1,217 homeless refusing shelter have been added to Hawaii's homeless population in the last two years....

...Hawaii’s employees earn 9 percent more than those in the private sector—the 3rd highest wages and salaries ratio in the country....

The median income for families (dad present) with kids younger than 18 adjusted for cost of living is two times higher in the District of Columbia than in Hawaii....

...nearly one-in-four residents (24%) identify as multiracial....

2015’s Strictest and Most Lenient States on DUI....

Some play video games in homes littered with pizza crusts and empty Mountain Dew cans. Others watch daytime soap operas....

WalletHub compared each of the 150 most populated U.S. cities across 30 key metrics. Our data set ranges from crime rates to school system rankings to housing costs....

...retirement in Hawaii would require $65,822 annually in disposable income, and (given Hawaii’s relatively high income taxes) pre-tax income of $91,451....

Multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S....

Hawaii collects $2,088 per person....

...analysis reveals those who love their job enough to tweet about it in the United States live in the Western half of the country....

...driving conditions for teens in the 50 U.S. states based on 16 key metrics....

...Hawaii-specific EV and car sales data to provide a preliminary forecast of potential EV adoption in Hawaii....

...Hawaii continues to have high levels (93%) of household participation in giving cash, goods or time....

Twenty of the 150 largest metros had a share of less than 25 percent of its new jobs since 2010 created in occupations that pay a living wage....

...there are around 38,000 who have enrolled in coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, but have yet to pay their bills....

WalletHub analyzed the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia across 20 key metrics....

...state and local combined individual income tax collections per person....

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy released the annual 50-State Property Tax Comparison Study, a comprehensive analysis of effective property tax rates in each state’s largest city....

...United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings Senior Report: A Call to Action for Individuals and Their Communities....

“...taxes are the single most expensive ingredient in beer, costing more than labor and raw materials combined....”

The Obama administration had implemented the special enrollment period from March 15 - April 30 to assist individuals who were unaware they would face a tax penalty for not having “qualifying” health insurance....

The 2014 State Preschool Yearbook is the newest edition of our annual report profiling state-funded prekindergarten programs in the United States....

Hawaii ranked fourth for senior health this year, according to the third edition of United Health Foundation’s America’s Health Rankings® Senior Report....

Only 15% of Hawaii rural roads are 'good'....

... the average military retirement age is 44 years old ....

Statewide average wage to afford 2 br rental: $31.61 (Highest in USA)

In 1987, the federal government repealed the CON mandate, and throughout the 1980s, states began retiring their CON programs--but not Hawaii....

The lowest federal share occurred in North Dakota at 19.0 percent, followed by Hawaii (21.5 percent)....

In 2014 Hawaii ranked 40 with 14 dog bite claims. Amount Paid $355,566....

...local authorities share fingerprints from everyone booked into jail with federal authorities, who comb the prints for immigrants, those here legally and illegally, so they can be deported....

Many public two- and four-year colleges and universities avoided significant tuition increases for the second year in a row... but not UH....

...Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released its 2015 Congressional Pig Book, the 23rd edition of the group’s exposé on pork-barrel spending....

...economic class diversity, ethno-racial and linguistic diversity, economic diversity and household diversity....

...the League of American Bicyclists has released its 2015 Bicycle Friendly State rankings....

Honolulu Ranks 101st: 95th for 'Professional Opportunities' and 107th for 'Quality of Life'....

...Millennial women experience depression 10.7 more days per year than Millennial men....