Hawaii Statistics

Sole proprietorships, S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs)....

...Hawaii has 49 different CON laws, 3rd highest in USA....

Housing / homelessness is now the new hot button concern, increasing from 6% to 17% over the past year, overtaking Education as well as infrastructure, covering roads and mass transit....

...21 key metrics, ranging from the median household income gap to the unemployment rate gap....

...In fiscal year 2013-2014, Hawaii’s captive insurers wrote more than $2.85 billion in premium volume and generated more than $20 million in economic benefits to Hawaii....

...a new state-by-state comparison puts Hawaii as #1 in terms of the gap between the income residents earn and the cost of housing....

... 8,282,680 visitors came to the Hawaiian Islands in 2014, exceeding the 2013 record of 8,174,461 visitors by 1.3 percent ....

...Hawai‘i has the largest gap in the nation between residents’ income and housing costs, ranking dead last....

Pass-through businesses pay a significant role in the US economy. They account for 95 percent of all businesses, more than 60 percent of all business income, and more than 50 percent of all employment....

...Correcting this problem and allowing businesses to deduct the full cost in the first year is known as “full expensing”....

...the share of all income held by the top 1% is on a three-decade upswing....

Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....

...the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has released a report. ranking the states in terms of how progressive their tax systems are....

Hawaii union membership slips from 22.1% in 2013 to 21.8% in 2014 ....

Delaware (49.5 percent) and Hawaii (48 percent) are the only states with pass-through employment less than 50% share of total private sector employment....

Hawaii ranks 4th with 32,829 millionaire households out of 473,750 total households = 6.93%....

Nationally, bed bug business increased 18 percent last year with nearly half of cities showing a rise in bed bug treatments....

In 2014, Mississippi had the lowest number of homeless people per 100,000, as it did for the previous three years....

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

This annual resource, dubbed “the playbook” of model legislation, combines more than 50 pieces of our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators....

"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"

Hawaii's Effective 13.4% rate of taxation on the poorest 20% is second only to Washington State....

The annual median wage for STEM workers (adjusted for cost of living) is two times higher in Houston than in Honolulu....

...five states with the lowest costs Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, Hawaii....

Hawaii receives 23.5 percent of its total state general revenues from the federal government....

The 2015 edition of Education Week’s Quality Counts report—Preparing to Launch: Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown....

...It is projected that 2,470 will lose their lives this year in Hawaii because of cancer....

Total expenditures by visitors who came to the Hawaiian Islands in November 2014 increased 3.4 percent to $1.1 billion, compared to last November....

This report presents annual statistics on social, business and economic trends for the State and each of its four counties, from 1990 to 2013....

As marijuana legalization took hold in Colorado, the estimated percentage of regular cannabis users in the state jumped to the second-highest level in the country....

WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2014’s Best & Worst College Cities & Towns in America....

...these units would account for up to 25 percent of Hawai‘i’s total lodging inventory. In comparison, hotels units make up approximately 50 percent of visitor accommodations....

The study did note three positives: a low corporate capital gains tax; low property taxes and low wireless taxes....

...how many workers commute in and out of the area on a typical workday? ....

...The latest installment in the UHERO dashboard project is packed with information on the cost of travel to Hawaii from the US mainland....

3,500 is far short of the 130,000 cited by Kissel in a Nov 28 Star-Adv interview as a break-even figure for the Connector....

Study sheds new light on e-cigarette behaviors in teens as regulators consider curbing sales to minors....

according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations....

Low Ranking on Small Business Policy Index Points to Need for Economic Reform....

WalletHub ranked the 100 most populated U.S. cities to find the ones that offer the most cost-effective and accessible fitness and sports facilities....

“Evidence suggests that e-cigarettes are being used by students who are not cigarette smokers....”

...the “2014 Congressional Pigbook,” published by the Citizens Against Government Waste identifies federal government “pork” spending in the millions of dollars in Hawaii....

Hawaii’s strengths include low prevalence of obesity and low rate of preventable hospitalizations; state’s challenges include high prevalence of binge drinking and high incidence of infectious disease....

...2014’s Cities with the Highest and Lowest Population in Need....

... California, Colorado, Florida, and Hawaii all moved up by at least 10 positions on our ranking ....

In Hawaii and Utah total borrowing by students at public institutions spiked by more than 100 percent since the start of the Great Recession....

WalletHub conducted an in-depth analysis of 2014’s Most & Least Charitable States....

"Hawaii's poor ranking--tied for 40th out of all states and in the bottom 3rd quartile overall--demonstrates the need for statewide economic reform," stated Keli'i Akina, Ph.D., President of the Grassroot Institute....

DHRD’s jurisdiction consisted of 21,783 positions, of which 15,069 were civil service and 6,714 exempt....