Hawaii Statistics

...after a decade of hype, Hawaii is still 75% coal and oil....

...The report includes an evaluation of the following categories: aviation (C-), bridges (C+), coastal areas (C-), dams (D), drinking water (D+), energy (C-), roads (D+), schools (D+), solid waste (C), storm water (D-) and wastewater (D+)....

...Hawaii economic growth well below U.S. average over the past 10 years....

...Hawaii GE Tax takes 8.43% of income from low income families but only 3.31% from high income families -- 2nd most regressive in USA....

...Hawaii is the worst state for single women—Wahiawa is best city in Hawaii for single women....

...Hawaii is among states which lost the most residents to outmigration over the last 10 years....

...Tourism challenges were not limited to the aftermath of flood and fire, but also reflected weakening in some key markets and a falloff in spending. At home, population growth has been negative for the past two years, weighing on demand....

...Zumper National Rent Report: March 2019....

...pedestrian fatalities up 1800% in Hawaii....

...Visitors to the Hawaiian Islands spent a total of $1.62 billion in January 2019, a decrease of 3.8 percent compared to January 2018....

...14 Hawaii communities compared -- Hilo is the most affordable, Kailua the least....

...the number of homeless in shelters is down 19%....

...Hawaii ranks among top half of all states for babies, according to a first-of-its kind report. The State of Babies Yearbook: 2019....

...The 2018 consolidated renewable portfolio standard (RPS) remained the same percentage as it was in 2017, at 27 percent. The consolidated number would have been 29 percent had Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) produced at the same level as 2017....

...Hawaii residents reported the highest wellbeing in the U.S. in 2018, reaching the top spot for the seventh time since Gallup began tracking wellbeing in 2008....

...In order to get to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, Trump would have to win all but one or two of the states in which his 2018 approval rating was between 41% and 49%....

...The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have created a five-star, quality rating system for nursing homes....

...Hawaii is one of six states with more self-identified liberals than conservatives....

...the Hawaii State Personal Income Tax vacuums up $1,481 per person....

...By exporting airliner exhaust, the nearly 50% growth in Hawaii tourism numbers since 2008 is simply evaporated from this report.....

...Topping the list, by a large margin, is Hawaii, scoring a risk level more than quadruple the lowest-scoring state, Rhode Island. The average score was 88, and 26 states scored over that level. Hawaii was the only state to break the 150s....

...HLPA Predicts Residential and Commercial Building Increase in 2019....

...Honolulu is the 18th-most congested city in USA....

...Here's How Much Generation Zers Will Need To Save For A Honolulu Home in 2031....

...We expect downward revisions in the healthcare industry and in accommodation and food services, where job gains remained lackluster throughout 2018....

...Goods and services are 61.4 percent more expensive...Housing is particularly unaffordable...an average of 9.7 percent of the city's labor force has been out of work over the last five years....

...In fiscal year 2017, the highest state sales tax collections per capita were found in Hawaii -- $2,269....

...Over the past five years, Hawaii's cumulative increase in higher education funding is more than 30%....

...Report: 63 out of America’s largest 75 cities can’t pay their bills, acquired $330 billion in unfunded debt....

...Honolulu has a Taxpayer Burden of $23,000, earning it an "F" grade....

...data set ranges from share of adolescents who visited a dentist in the past year to dental treatment costs to share of adults with low life satisfaction due to oral condition....

...Hawaii's GE Tax base is more than triple the average sales tax base for US states....

...American Lung Association ‘State of Tobacco Control’ Report Finds Hawaii Must Do More to Prevent, Reduce Tobacco Use....

...Hawaii Ranks 15th....

...In addition to the 66 unprovoked attacks worldwide, there were also 34 provoked attacks. Those include instances where divers are bitten after harassing or trying to touch sharks, as well as attacks on spearfishers or people trying to feed sharks....

...the average per-Taxpayer Burden for these 15 states runs almost $24,000—more than four times the average for the other 35 states....

...Hawaii: State and Local Taxes rake in $6,467 per capita....

...Hawaii already does more than any other state to discourage car ownership....

...Hawaii and New York had the highest union membership rates--23.1 percent and 22.3 percent, respectively....

...Hawaii suffered the second-largest construction employment decline in USA....

...Hawaii, a state with a sales tax base so broad that it applies to more than the state’s entire economy, taxes not just the machinery businesses use to manufacture goods, but also the raw materials used in manufacturing....

...percent of average wages to rent--Santa Cruz County, California (81.7 percent); Honolulu County, Hawaii (74.4 percent); Spotsylvania County, Virginia (73.0 percent); Maui County, Hawaii (69.5 percent)....

...WalletHub measured the gaps between blacks and whites across 22 key indicators of equality and integration in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

...As of Nov. 30, 2018 there were approximately 6,659 registered patients and 383 caregivers on Hawai‘i Island of the total 23,479 patients and 1,734 caregivers registered statewide. The primary reported condition for adult registered patients is ‘severe pain’. The primary reported condition for children under 18 years of age is ‘seizures’....

...The Volker Alliance gave states grades of A to D-minus, the lowest possible mark, for their practices in five areas that are the building blocks of budgeting nationwide....

...Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid?....

"...Eighty percent of those forcibly initiated into prostitution via sex trafficking also prostituted without a trafficker at a later point...."

...The Real Cost of Smoking by State....

...The Case for Inclusion 2019 Ranks States on Policies and Programs that Encourage Employment and Community Living....

...2019’s Best & Worst States to Raise a Family....