Hawaii Statistics

... Maui is averaging just under 21 approved permits per month ....

... While Hawai‘i performed strongly in most categories, the report identified several areas where performance declined ....

... 7,188 positions taken by 340 organizations on 1,747 bills ....

... with just $489 left over each month after covering essential living expenses, residents are left with little room to save ....

... in Hawaii, rent for a one-bedroom unit costs 46% of beginning, bachelor-degree-holding teacher salary ....

... Nearly half of participants are still in temporary housing ....

... submitting claims multiple times before they’re paid is necessary and sometimes claims are completely ignored ....

... This is up 9.48% from just a year ago ....

... Hawaii has only 2.5 registered boats per 100 residents--dead last in USA ....

"...they have grandparents who just passed away recently or moved into assisted living, so now they can move back home and live in that house....”

... residents in the most expensive states like California, Hawaii, and New Jersey paying up to 39% more than the national median, while those in the most affordable states like West Virginia, Mississippi, and Oklahoma pay up to 44% less ....

...Hawaii serves just 5% of its four-year-olds and 2% of three-year-olds in state-funded preschool programs, dead last among Pacific states....

... Hawaii taxes beer at $0.93 per gallon .....

... 70.6% of third graders in Hawaii experience tooth decay—the highest rate in the nation ....

... Hawaiʻi ranks 24th in overall children’s well-being in the Data Book, as well as 33rd in the economic well-being ....

... an estimated 3,120 students in 4th grade likely cannot perform skills like adding and subtracting multidigit whole numbers, fractions, and decimals ....

... 49th for innovation, 50th for high-tech jobs ....

... There were 833,219 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in April 2025, up 7.9 percent from April 2024. Total visitor spending measured in nominal dollars was $1.69 billion, which was growth of 9.4 percent from April 2024 ....

... Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) and low-income respondents, ratings dropped from 40% describing their health as excellent or very good to 23%—a 17 percentage point decrease in 18 months ....

... Hawaii medical malpractice claim count is 71% higher than the national average ....

... Hawaii has the 4th-largest increase in mortgage delinquency ....

... 64,490 additional units are needed through 2027 but only 13,471 units are currently in development pipelines and anticipated to be available by 2027 .... 

... 11.6% of Honolulu rentals are under 348 square feet ....

... Hawaii has the third-lowest percentage of single-mother households at 3%.  Single-father households make up 1.4% of the 493,898 households in Hawaii ....

... The pace of new housing construction remains historically low. Housing permitting times continue to be long, especially in Honolulu and Maui ....

... Hawaii among 13 states ranked low for emergency readiness ....

.... Hawaii extracts $9,503 per person ....

... States With the Best Budgeting Education in High Schools ....

... There were 903,891 visitors to the Hawaiian Islands in March 2025, up 3.0 percent from the same month last year ....

... only San Jose and Washington, DC are worse ....

... Hawaii Residents Spend the Highest Percentage of Income on Housing ....

... Hawaii ranks #50 among states for the share of its population seeking treatment ....

... 2,456 licenses were issued (some licensees hold multiple licenses in order to select between different carry guns), 119 were denied, and six were revoked ....

... Hawaii ranks as the least affordable state, with a median home price of $840,256 and a relatively high cost of living ....

... you need a gross salary of roughly $145,000 in order to actually take home $100,000 in Hawaii.  This is the third-worst in USA ....

... Hawaii has the highest annual costs associated with raising a small child, at $36,472 ....

... The absence of these low-performing students artificially increases average test scores ....

... completers of Dual Credit classes up 3% from 24% to 27% ....

... domestic out-migration, particularly among young adults, continues ....

... Hawaii residents pay nearly 14% of their income in taxes: 4.2% on income taxes, 2.6% on property taxes, and 7.2% in sales and excise taxes ....

... at $796,947, homeowners purchasing a home at this price point will need to work 17 days each month just to cover the payment of $5,222 ....

... Hawai‘i still pays significantly higher prices than the rest of the U.S., which averages at $4.90 per dozen ....

... Hawaii significantly revised its individual income tax brackets under H.B. 2404, enacted in June 2024 ....

... Hawaii has increased its proportion of roadway spending furnished by road users from 78 percent to 97.2 percent--7th highest in the USA ....

... Hawaii has the highest average commercial rent at $36 per square foot (#51) and the second-highest monthly electricity cost at $1,514.20 (#50) ....

... In February 2025, the average daily census of 20,686 Canadian visitors decreased from February 2024 (20,977 visitors, -1.4%) ....

... the State of Hawaii takes $7,070 per person in taxes ....

...Tax Day can be a painful reminder of how much we have to invest in federal, state and local governments, though many of us aren’t sure exactly what we get in return....

... Hawaii ranks dead last for medical environment ....

... Hawaii has among the highest rates of rooftop solar adoption in the nation and yet we are 90.8% fossil fuel ....