Where in Hawaii can one find the highest median household income? Waialae Iki on Oahu, where the average is $163,000.

The highest percentage of people below the poverty rate in the whole state? Linapuni Street in Kalihi — it’s almost 68 percent of the population.

The greatest number of folks who speak a language other than English? Mayor Wright Housing, the low-income project just west of downtown Honolulu.

Those factoids and others come from the crunching of census tract data, part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s just-released American Community Survey 2010-2014.

The ACS has been sharing the surveys for 10 years now, providing detailed information “critical for making informed decisions about their people, places and economy,” according to the Census Bureau. “Users can now identify trends for social and economic characteristics for even the smallest communities on a more frequent basis.”

Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson said in a press release Thursday that the survey “immediately proved to be a vital tool in providing a portrait of Gulf Coast communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina.”

Here in the islands, the staff at the Hawaii State Data Center — part of the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism — helps break the statistics down locally. (You can find more by clicking here.)

The latest ACS has a “big difference” from previous surveys, according to DBEDT, because it contains two non-overlapping time periods (2005-2009 and 2010-2014) so data users can look at trends.

And here are some tidbits from the national survey:

• Poverty rates were 30 percent or higher in 119 counties. Of these, 93 counties were in the South.
• 182 counties, or 6 percent, had a median gross monthly rent of more than $1,000, with 65 counties in the South, 62 counties in the West, 49 counties in the Northeast, and six in the Midwest.
•  In 171 counties, owners with a mortgage had a median monthly housing cost greater than $1,750, with 63 (36.8 percent) of these counties located in the Northeast.