Here are a few tidbits about Hawaii gleaned from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey, based on a four-year period dating to 2011.

• Most of the 1.4 million people living in Hawaii are employed, drive alone to work, have graduated from high school, speak English at home and are not living in poverty.

• Of those 25 and older on Oahu, the census designated places of Koolina, Hickam Housing and Wheeler Air Force Base are estimated to have the lowest percentages of people who graduated from high school or have a GED.

University of Hawaii at Manoa foreground with Diamond Head in background. HECO. HEI. Hawaiian Electric. TILT SHIFT LENS USED. 28 nov 2015. photograph Cory Lum/Civil Beat
During the 2011-2015 period, about 1.4 million people lived in Hawaii. Cory Lum/Civil Beat

• The average age in Hawaii is 38.

• For residents reported to be of one race, almost half are Asian, and a little more than a third are white. Thirteen percent are of Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander descent.

• While Oahu households have a median household income of $74,460, those living in the Maunawili and Makaha areas have the highest and lowest earnings, respectively. Statewide, the median household income is $69,515.

• Out of 527,400 housing units across the state, nearly 450,600 are occupied. A little more than half are occupied by owners, most of whom have mortgages.

• Diamond Head owner-occupied housing units have the highest median value of more than $2 million. Eight other areas – in Windward Oahu, East Honolulu, Makiki and south Maui neighborhoods – have average values of $1 million to $1.9 million.

• Waiawa, Coral Creek Golf Course, Diamond Head, Waialae Iki and the Lunalilo Park Subdivision have the highest median gross rents – the contract rent plus the estimated average monthly cost of utilities like electricity and water – of more than $3,500.

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