City safety & data profile
KahuluiHI
Kahului, HI is a 26K-resident city in Maui County with a median household income of $98,077.
Maui County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Kahului, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Kahului has a population larger than 58% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $862,600, and 2 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 26K
- Population (place)
- Top 42%
- By size
- $98,077
- Median income (place)
- $862,600
- Median home (place)
- 8.7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Kahului
Kahului posts a median household income higher than 67% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 2 hospitals serve the Kahului area.
- Top 33%
- by median income, US cities
- 2
- hospitals in & near Kahului
Composite score · Kahului, HI
59/100
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.
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.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis. ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
See the full national tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Kahului income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$98,077 Top 33% higher than 67% 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 Kahului, HI beyond the headline numbers
Kahului sits inside Maui County, Hawaii, at roughly 20.89°N, -156.47°W. Population 26,337, $98,077 median household income. Median home value $862,600, median rent $1,488. Poverty rate 8.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
2 hospitals in/around Kahului (nearest 3.7 mi away), 2/5 avg rating, 1 with an ER. Climate: 77.1°F annual average, 16.1" precipitation.
The median home in Kahului costs around 8.8 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.
3.2% of Kahului workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Among the CDC measures on this page, obesity departs furthest from its peer median: 23% in Kahului, the lowest-prevalence quarter of the 3,759 cities reporting that measure.
At 43 years, Kahului's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Only 5% of Kahului workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Kahului's labor market runs tight: 3.5% unemployment, in the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
24.6% of Kahului adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
At 8.7%, poverty in Kahului, HI runs below the midpoint of reporting cities -- enough to matter locally, not enough to dominate the city's profile.
Median rent in Kahului, HI runs $1,488/month, above the midpoint for reporting cities -- worth weighing against the income figures on this page.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Kahului 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.
Looking Back a Decade 2013–2024
County-level trend (Maui County): Kahului'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.
Economics
What stands out most about Kahului's economic profile: poverty rate at 8.7%, 30% below the average across tracked places. A second figure worth noting: median household income at $98,077, 10% above the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 8.7% -30% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 3.5% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 24.6% |
| Work From Home | 5% |
| Public Transit | 3.2% |
Headcount
Health Snapshot 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Nearby Hospital Options 2 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 20249.4% above national average
Metro area: Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI (MSA)
Source: BEA Regional Price Parities via FRED. RPP of 100 = national average.
Flood Insurance Claims History
FEMA NFIP, county-level309 flood insurance claims have been filed in Maui County since 2016, with $19.9M paid out by the NFIP.
2026-03-KonaStorm alone generated 156 of those claims, the county's largest named flood event in this record.
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 Kahului?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Kahului right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-KAHULUI · Kahului
Kahului: no area-tagged alerts on record. State hubs carry the live CAP stream.
- FEED-QUIET No tagged alerts
- LEAD-NONE Feed idle
- DESK-IDLE Awaiting feed
Counts reflect published articles tagged to Kahului; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Hawaii state hubs · Methodology
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Kahului, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (8.7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($98,077 here).
Compare Kahului 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
Turning this into a research checklist
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 Kahului area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- A median income figure alone can mislead, cross-check it against the poverty rate for the fuller picture.
- Compare Kahului 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 (Maui 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.