Hawaii Statistics

...Hawaii is one of six states with more self-identified liberals than conservatives....

...the Hawaii State Personal Income Tax vacuums up $1,481 per person....

...By exporting airliner exhaust, the nearly 50% growth in Hawaii tourism numbers since 2008 is simply evaporated from this report.....

...Topping the list, by a large margin, is Hawaii, scoring a risk level more than quadruple the lowest-scoring state, Rhode Island. The average score was 88, and 26 states scored over that level. Hawaii was the only state to break the 150s....

...HLPA Predicts Residential and Commercial Building Increase in 2019....

...Honolulu is the 18th-most congested city in USA....

...Here's How Much Generation Zers Will Need To Save For A Honolulu Home in 2031....

...We expect downward revisions in the healthcare industry and in accommodation and food services, where job gains remained lackluster throughout 2018....

...Goods and services are 61.4 percent more expensive...Housing is particularly unaffordable...an average of 9.7 percent of the city's labor force has been out of work over the last five years....

...In fiscal year 2017, the highest state sales tax collections per capita were found in Hawaii -- $2,269....

...Over the past five years, Hawaii's cumulative increase in higher education funding is more than 30%....

...Report: 63 out of America’s largest 75 cities can’t pay their bills, acquired $330 billion in unfunded debt....

...Honolulu has a Taxpayer Burden of $23,000, earning it an "F" grade....

...data set ranges from share of adolescents who visited a dentist in the past year to dental treatment costs to share of adults with low life satisfaction due to oral condition....

...Hawaii's GE Tax base is more than triple the average sales tax base for US states....

...American Lung Association ‘State of Tobacco Control’ Report Finds Hawaii Must Do More to Prevent, Reduce Tobacco Use....

...Hawaii Ranks 15th....

...In addition to the 66 unprovoked attacks worldwide, there were also 34 provoked attacks. Those include instances where divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, as well as attacks on spearfishers or people trying to feed sharks....

...the average per-Taxpayer Burden for these 15 states runs almost $24,000—more than four times the average for the other 35 states....

...Hawaii: State and Local Taxes rake in $6,467 per capita....

...Hawaii already does more than any other state to discourage car ownership....

...Hawaii and New York had the highest union membership rates--23.1 percent and 22.3 percent, respectively....

...Hawaii suffered the second-largest construction employment decline in USA....

...Hawaii, a state with a sales tax base so broad that it applies to more than the state’s entire economy, taxes not just the machinery businesses use to manufacture goods, but also the raw materials used in manufacturing....

...percent of average wages to rent--Santa Cruz County, California (81.7 percent); Honolulu County, Hawaii (74.4 percent); Spotsylvania County, Virginia (73.0 percent); Maui County, Hawaii (69.5 percent)....

...WalletHub measured the gaps between blacks and whites across 22 key indicators of equality and integration in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

...As of Nov. 30, 2018 there were approximately 6,659 registered patients and 383 caregivers on Hawai‘i Island of the total 23,479 patients and 1,734 caregivers registered statewide. The primary reported condition for adult registered patients is ‘severe pain’. The primary reported condition for children under 18 years of age is ‘seizures’....

...The Volker Alliance gave states grades of A to D-minus, the lowest possible mark, for their practices in five areas that are the building blocks of budgeting nationwide....

...Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid?....

"...Eighty percent of those forcibly initiated into prostitution via sex trafficking also prostituted without a trafficker at a later point...."

...The Real Cost of Smoking by State....

...The Case for Inclusion 2019 Ranks States on Policies and Programs that Encourage Employment and Community Living....

...2019’s Best & Worst States to Raise a Family....

...WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across five key metrics. They range from each state’s share of federal jobs to federal contract dollars per capita to the share of families receiving food stamps....

... Only five states had more wildly gyrating rankings than California — Hawaii, Vermont, Alaska, Nevada and Connecticut ....

...Total visitor arrivals rose to 781,990 (+4.3%) in November compared to a year ago....

...the state still spent about $2 billion more than it generated in fiscal year 2018, and its overall net position dropped by $718.4 million dollars over the course of the fiscal year, in spite of a $326 million increase in revenue generated mostly by airport and harbor fees....

...Four states had average charitable deductions greater than $10,000...Hawaii averaged $4,111.80....

...Amphetamine-positive patients spent more time per visit on average in the emergency department and were more likely to require medication and physical restraints....

...The Cato Institute has released its 14th biennial fiscal report card on the governors....

• #4 -- HAWAII 460 / 7.6% increase 2007-2018
• #4 -- HAWAII -690 / -9.6% decrease 2017-2018

... Hawaii takes the cake as the most expensive state in the Union .... 

...Hawaii is spending $4.5 million this year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is just 32.9 percent of the $13.7 million recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

...According to the Grassroot Institute, high taxes, high government spending and burdensome regulation were major reasons economic freedom in the state continued to decline; they also contributed heavily to the state’s high cost of living....

...Honolulu is tied for most inadequate kitchens--Pearl City has the least inadequate plumbing in USA....

... America’s Health Rankings Annual Report ....

... Hawaii ranks 44th in USA ....

...the blame can be placed squarely on high housing prices....

...but Hawaii ranks 48th for protection of elders from abuse....

...Wallet Fitness is about turning one of Americans’ top stressors, money, into one of your biggest strengths....