Hawaii Statistics

Traffic fatalities, 65 and older: 9.1 per 100,000....

...Feds say in Hawaii the drop was only 3% not the 58% claimed by Caldwell....

One hundred percent of Maryknoll High School seniors have been accepted to colleges....

June 2016 Arrivals Up 4.2 Percent, Expenditures Gained 4.3 Percent....

...the combined federal, state, and local rate paid by the taxpayer on capital gains income....

The most expensive nationwide is Honolulu, where coffee costs an average of $7.56....

There are less police officers on the streets today per person than there were in the 1990’s....

Some of the most common excise taxes include gas taxes, cigarette taxes, and taxes on the purchase of beer, wine, and liquor....

Prices in urban Honolulu are 23.5% higher than average....

...costs are the highest in the nation....

Between low wages and high net prices, no state can claim that the average four-year college is affordable for low-income students....

...2016 VoterVoice Survey Results....

The sales taxes in Hawaii and South Dakota have bases that include many services and so are not strictly comparable to other sales taxes....

... Average daily spending by Japanese tourists is down 10.1% ....

Hawaii has the lowest effective rate at 0.28 percent....

...Homeless growth on Maui and Oahu less than 1%....

...the costs can add up to as much as $57,772 per year in Hawaii....

...An average household in Hawaii County spent an average of $51,700 in 2014....

...CarInsurance.com ranked states on eight metrics to identify which ones are more favorable for motorists....

...according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book....

This study is comprised of 2,464 offenders from the Fiscal Year 2012 cohort....

Hawaii Ranked in Bottom Five States for Economic Freedom....

The share of infrastructure expenditures funded by tolls, user fees, and user taxes ranges from 14.3 percent in Alaska to 79.8 percent in Hawaii....

...2016’s States with the Best & Worst Economies....

... California's wine tax is only $0.20 ....

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey is administered in odd-numbered years to Hawai‘i public school students in grades 6–12....

Compared to taxes on alcoholic beverages such as wine and beer, distilled spirits are taxed at much higher rates....

A typical Maui household spent an average of $65,197 in 2014. About 72 percent of the total household spending went towards the three basic needs categories....

... for Asian-Americans the Hawaii Graduation rate is 6th-lowest in USA ....

...liabilities are equal to 73 percent of total state personal income....

Honolulu Metro Area Hits All-Time April Construction Employment High as Employers add 5,000 New Jobs....

...the average officer is only 47 years old upon retirement from service....

Next-generation seniors set to be less healthy than current seniors, with 55 percent growth in diabetes, 25 percent increase in obesity....

...but total visitor arrivals to the Hawaiian Islands increased 3.4 percent from a year ago to 700,573 visitors....

...The increase was highest among unaccompanied homeless adults: 8,250 accessed services in FY 2015....

In Hawaii the two-bedroom housing wage is $34.22/hr ....

...In addition to the federal estate tax of 40 percent....

...ratios of pre-retirement income that seniors are replacing range from a high of 72.59% in Hawaii to a low of 48.22% in Massachusetts....

...For the sixth year in a row Hawaii was named the worst state to make a living for its 68.6 percent higher cost of living than the national average....

Hawaii’s four counties are moving steadily forward, accommodating new visitors, restoring lost jobs, and growing household incomes....

In Hawaii, this is the first year the Executive Office on Early Learning’s pre-K program was included in the report....

...a spate of new regulatory restrictions that have affected Hawaii....

... 41% growth in regulatory impact between 1997 and 2013 ....

...compared to the national average cost of goods and services....

...two studies that serve as guides for legislators, the media, and the public as to the state of marijuana taxation today and the implications of taxing marijuana in the future....

...After all the hype, 94% of Hawaii baseload electricity comes from non-renewable sources....

At 18.5%, Hawaii has the lowest adult obesity rate in the U.S., closely followed by Colorado at 19.8%....

The Justice Index 2016 Findings, just released by the National Center for Access to Justice, ranks Hawaii among the top three states....

... In Honolulu 1.49% of Mortgages are written off as noncollectable by lenders ....

...Study Examining Senior Care Cost and Quality Reveals Best and Worst States to Age in....