Hawaii Statistics

...The average Oahu driver spends 64 hours in congestion each year....

...workers who rely on public transit are most likely to be super commuters, by a wide margin....

...If you retire with $1 million in Hawaii, you’ll have less than a dozen years to ride out your savings....

...Theft and Juvenile Delinquency: Where Are Teens Most Likely to Steal?....

...Six Hawaii community colleges ranked on quality and affordability....

...Death in Hawaii is by far the priciest among all the states....

...Hawaii 47th -- Amount of R&D per 100,000 people -- $1,640....

...Hawai‘i DOE submits request to US Department of Education to amend data submission....

...The Hawaii State Data Book is the most comprehensive statistical book about Hawaii in a single compilation....

... $100 is effectively worth the least in Hawaii ($84.39) ....

...Data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection show Hawaiʻi to be the worst state in the nation for public school students with disabilities....

...Hawaii ranks 36th for health care access....

...State Gasoline Tax Rates as of July 2019....

...The Manufacturing Scorecard shows how each state ranks among its peers in several categories that are of particular interest to site selection experts for the manufacturing and logistics industries....

...Hawaii Visitor Statistics Released for the First Half of 2019....

...Hawaii is No. 1 in the country when it comes to residents whose consumer debt, not including mortgages, outweighs their yearly salary....

...How Well-Funded are Pension Plans in Your State?....

...2019’s States with the Most At-Risk Youth....

...Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times....

...WalletHub compared 300 cities of varying sizes across 27 key indicators of market attractiveness, affordability and quality of life....

...Student Debt as % of Income, Adjusted for Cost of Living  (3rd-lowest)....

...To rank CNBC's 2019 America's Top States for Business, we put all 50 states through a rigorous test and graded them based on more than 60 measures of competitiveness in 10 broad categories....

...Hawaii ranks 47th....

...“These constraints, largely imposed at the local level, raise costs and limit the number of homes that can be built in places where demand is highest.”....

...despite the nation's lowest electricity consumption, chart-topping rates give Hawaii the 10th highest electric bills....

...Acreage harvested for all seed crops is expected to total 2,530 acres during the 2018-19 season, down 17 percent from the previous season....

...Hawaii residents have been moving away from the islands in droves in recent years; in fiscal 2017, more than 13,000 people departed — the highest negative net migration ever....

... average daily visitor spending was down 4.2% -- Total visitor arrivals increased 4.6 percent to 841,376 ....

... and the lowest voter turnout for 2016 Presidential election ....

...Out of Reach documents the significant gap between renters’ wages and the cost of rental housing....

...Honolulu residents spend the 2nd-most for food, 3rd-most as a percentage of income....

... Hawaii taxes distilled spirits at $5.98 per gallon ....

...Between 2008-2017, Hawaii adults over 50 were 2.6 times as likely to be struck and killed while walking compared to people under 50….

...conditions have shown little to no improvements in more recent years, with the state’s rank for this domain slipping from 30 in 2018 to 34 in 2019....

...nineteen Senators and two Representatives – all Democrats – earned membership in the ‘Coalition of the Radical Left’ by scoring 10% or less.... 

...in Hawaii, 29% of federal criminal convictions are for white collar crime, second only to New Jersey....

...and Hawaii has the 4th-lowest home ownership rate in USA....

...Hawaii taxes wine at $1.38/gallon, 14th highest in USA....

...Suicide deaths rose to the second-highest rate in the country at 15.2 per 100,000 in 2017, the latest data available, from 8.2 per 100,000 in 2005, while alcohol deaths climbed to 5.8 from 3.5 and drug poisonings increased to 13.8 from 9.4....

... Hawaii imposes $0.93 tax per gallon of beer ....

...373 people who were considered homeless at the time of their deaths have died on O‘ahu from 2014 through 2018....

...91 percent of Honolulu’s Housing First clients came into the program as chronically homeless, and over 60 percent came directly from living on the streets....

...based on several criteria, including crime rates, air quality, housing affordability, entertainment offerings, cultural diversity, and economic vitality....

... identified as having a “persistent record of poor care” ....

...low tech, low patents, low innovation....

...in Hawaii the dollar has less buying power than in any other state....

...lots of jobs sit unfilled as Hawaii has the 5th-lowest avg starting salaries (adjusted for cost of living) in the USA....

... Hawaii derives 22.9% of tax revenue from individual income taxes .... 

...“It’s not surprising to see a decrease in visitor spending during 2018 since most of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park was closed for 134 days due to unsafe and unpredictable volcanic activity”....

...Oahu population is down 12,612 from its 2016 peak....