Hawaii Statistics

...the costs can add up to as much as $57,772 per year in Hawaii....

...An average household in Hawaii County spent an average of $51,700 in 2014....

...CarInsurance.com ranked states on eight metrics to identify which ones are more favorable for motorists....

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

This study is comprised of 2,464 offenders from the Fiscal Year 2012 cohort....

Hawaii Ranked in Bottom Five States for Economic Freedom....

The share of infrastructure expenditures funded by tolls, user fees, and user taxes ranges from 14.3 percent in Alaska to 79.8 percent in Hawaii....

...2016’s States with the Best & Worst Economies....

... California's wine tax is only $0.20 ....

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is administered in odd-numbered years to Hawai‘i public school students in grades 6–12....

Compared to taxes on alcoholic beverages such as wine and beer, distilled spirits are taxed at much higher rates....

A typical Maui household spent an average of $65,197 in 2014. About 72 percent of the total household spending went towards the three basic needs categories....

... for Asian-Americans the Hawaii Graduation rate is 6th-lowest in USA ....

...liabilities are equal to 73 percent of total state personal income....

Honolulu Metro Area Hits All-Time April Construction Employment High as Employers add 5,000 New Jobs....

...the average officer is only 47 years old upon retirement from service....

Next-generation seniors set to be less healthy than current seniors, with 55 percent growth in diabetes, 25 percent increase in obesity....

...but total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands increased 3.4 percent from a year ago to 700,573 visitors....

...The increase was highest among unaccompanied homeless adults: 8,250 accessed services in FY 2015....

In Hawaii the two-bedroom housing wage is $34.22/hr ....

...In addition to the federal estate tax of 40 percent....

...ratios of pre-retirement income that seniors are replacing range from a high of 72.59% in Hawaii to a low of 48.22% in Massachusetts....

...For the sixth year in a row Hawaii was named the worst state to make a living for its 68.6 percent higher cost of living than the national average....

Hawaii’s four counties are moving steadily forward, accommodating new visitors, restoring lost jobs, and growing household incomes....

In Hawaii, this is the first year the Executive Office on Early Learning’s pre-K program was included in the report....

...a spate of new regulatory restrictions that have affected Hawaii....

... 41% growth in regulatory impact between 1997 and 2013 ....

...compared to the national average cost of goods and services....

...two studies that serve as guides for legislators, the media, and the public as to the state of marijuana taxation today and the implications of taxing marijuana in the future....

...After all the hype, 94% of Hawaii baseload electricity comes from non-renewable sources....

At 18.5%, Hawaii has the lowest adult obesity rate in the U.S., closely followed by Colorado at 19.8%....

The Justice Index 2016 Findings, just released by the National Center for Access to Justice, ranks Hawaii among the top three states....

... In Honolulu 1.49% of Mortgages are written off as noncollectable by lenders ....

...Study Examining Senior Care Cost and Quality Reveals Best and Worst States to Age in....

...Are you feeling hot under the collar yet?....

...Thirty-five states experienced a decrease in absolute debt levels....

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....