City safety & data profile
East HonoluluHI
East Honolulu, HI is a 50K-resident city in Honolulu County with a median household income of $159,518.
Honolulu County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for East Honolulu, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. East Honolulu has a population larger than 79% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $1,212,000, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 50K
- Population (place)
- Top 21%
- By size
- $159,518
- Median income (place)
- $1,212,000
- Median home (place)
- 5.3%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on East Honolulu
East Honolulu posts a median household income higher than 94% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the East Honolulu area.
- Top 6%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near East Honolulu
Composite score · East Honolulu, HI
88/100
4 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2024
A transparent index Areazine derives from Census ACS medians (income, poverty, bachelor's share) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when published, not an official Census Bureau or FBI rating. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability rating, not a recommendation to move to or avoid any place. Missing inputs drop out and redistribute weight. How it is calculated.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents. State-level rate (per-city UCR reporting is incomplete/voluntary): every city in the state shares this value; lower is stronger on this axis.
East Honolulu in context: the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where East Honolulu income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$159,518 Top 6% higher than 94% of 3,889 places Areazine profiles
Each bar is a $20,000-wide band; taller bars hold more places Areazine profiles. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (place-level) · 2024 ACS 5-year
The quick read
Reading East Honolulu, HI beyond the headline numbers
East Honolulu sits inside Honolulu County, Hawaii, at roughly 21.29°N, -157.72°W. Population 49,914, $159,518 median household income. Median home value $1,212,000, median rent $3,313. Poverty rate 5.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around East Honolulu (nearest 7.1 mi away), 3.7/5 avg rating, 4 with an ER. Climate: 75.8°F annual average, 42.6" precipitation.
$3,313/month is the median rent in East Honolulu, HI, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
The median home in East Honolulu costs around 7.6 times what a median household earns in a year -- the most expensive quarter of reporting cities, and far enough ahead of local pay that ownership is largely closed to median earners.
At 49.1 years, East Honolulu's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, frequent mental distress departs furthest from its peer median: 10.9% in East Honolulu, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
A bachelor's degree or higher is common in East Honolulu: 59.9% of adults, the highest quarter of reporting cities -- a labor pool skewed toward credentialed work.
Hardship is low by national standards: 5.3% of East Honolulu, HI residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
17.3% of East Honolulu workers are remote, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Unemployment in East Honolulu sits at 4.5%, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for East Honolulu from FEMA, NOAA, FDA, and CPSC. Economic comparison bars use the unweighted average across tracked Census places with a reported value, not a household-weighted national median.
A Decade of Change 2013–2024
County-level trend (Honolulu County): East Honolulu's own historical series isn't separately published by the Census Bureau, so these year-over-year figures track the surrounding county, not the city alone.
Economic Snapshot
The clearest outlier in East Honolulu's numbers is median rent: $3,313/mo, which is 115% above what's typical across the tracked-city set. Median household income also diverges: $159,518, 78% above average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 5.3% -57% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 4.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 59.9% |
| Work From Home | 17.3% |
| Public Transit | 1.3% |
Population Snapshot
Health Snapshot 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Closest Hospitals 5 within 25 mi
CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating (1-5): a composite score across dozens of reported measures, not a single outcome guarantee for any patient. It isn't adjusted for patient case mix and isn't directly comparable across hospital types, a critical-access facility and a large teaching hospital aren't rated on the same measure set.
Climate
NOAA 1991-2020 NormalsCost of Living
BEA 202411.0% above national average
Metro area: Urban Honolulu, HI (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Claims on Record
FEMA NFIP, county-levelHonolulu County has recorded 866 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $44.8M in payouts since 2016.
244 claims trace back to 2026-03-KonaStorm, the biggest named event in the county's flood-claim history.
Source: FEMA National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) claims, via OpenFEMA. County-level data: individual claims are not attributed to a specific city or address by FEMA.
What alerts and safety updates affect East Honolulu?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for East Honolulu right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-EAST-HONOLULU · East Honolulu
East Honolulu: 1 tagged alert; lead category NWS weather alert.
- VOL-TRACE 1 on record
- WX-LED 100% weather
- DESK-MIX NOAA
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Houston
Tagged alert mix: East Honolulu
Published notices carrying this city slug or location tag
- Weather Alerts
Weather Alerts
1
What this shows 1 tagged notice on record for East Honolulu.
Nearest tagged-volume peer: Houston, TX (1 tagged · Δ0)
Counts reflect published articles tagged to East Honolulu; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Hawaii state hubs · Methodology
Similar alert activity elsewhere 4
Nearest published-notice counts on Areazine (1 tagged here), a feed-density peer set, not an ACS demographic match.
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for East Honolulu, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (5.3% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($159,518 here).
Compare East Honolulu with another city
Pick a second U.S. city to open a side-by-side profile on population, income, health, and hospitals, the same federal datasets as this page.
In the Area 8
Using East Honolulu's profile
Use this as a starting research checklist, not a verdict on whether to live here.
- Check live recalls, weather and hazard alerts scoped to the East Honolulu area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Read the poverty rate alongside the income figure, two places with the same median can have very different realities.
- Compare East Honolulu against Hawaii peers on any ranking lens. Explore Hawaii
Place-level figures for population and economics (income, home value, poverty, education) come from U.S. Census ACS; health data is CDC PLACES; hospital counts cover facilities in and around the city. Any county-level trend is labeled as such.
Data Sources
All data on this page comes from official U.S. government sources. Population and economic data from the Census Bureau American Community Survey (2024 5-year estimates, place geography). Health data from the CDC PLACES program (2023). Hospital ratings from CMS Hospital Compare (2024). Climate data from NOAA. Education data from NCES. Cost of living from Bureau of Economic Analysis. Crime statistics, where referenced on Areazine, originate from the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Housing market figures referenced on Areazine come from HUD Fair Market Rents. Census economics and population are at place geography; some health and hospital indicators are reported at the county level (Honolulu County) where that is the smallest published unit.
Every figure on Areazine is published directly from official U.S. government sources, no number is typed in by an editor. City demographic and health figures are compiled directly from U.S. Census (place-level ACS), CDC, and CMS releases, updated quarterly within 30 days of upstream release. County-level trends are labeled when shown. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-09-16.