City safety & data profile
Pearl CityHI
Pearl City, HI is a 48K-resident city in Honolulu County with a median household income of $118,112.
Honolulu County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Pearl City, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Pearl City has a population larger than 78% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $901,500, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 48K
- Population (place)
- Top 22%
- By size
- $118,112
- Median income (place)
- $901,500
- Median home (place)
- 5.8%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Pearl City
Pearl City posts a median household income higher than 81% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Pearl City area.
- Top 19%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Pearl City
Composite score · Pearl City, HI
75/100
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.
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.
Median household income vs cities tracked on Areazine; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS 5-Year Estimates.
Curious how Pearl City stacks up nationwide? See the full tables: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Pearl City income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$118,112 Top 19% higher than 81% 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 Pearl City, HI beyond the headline numbers
Pearl City sits inside Honolulu County, Hawaii, at roughly 21.40°N, -157.98°W. Population 47,698, $118,112 median household income. Median home value $901,500, median rent $2,316. Poverty rate 5.8%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Pearl City (nearest 5.8 mi away), 3.8/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER. Climate: 78°F annual average, 16.4" precipitation.
The median home in Pearl City 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.
Among the CDC measures on this page, short sleep duration departs furthest from its peer median: 46.2% in Pearl City, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.
At 45.8 years, Pearl City's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
$2,316/month is the median rent in Pearl City, HI, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
Pearl City's labor market runs tight: 2.6% unemployment, in the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
2.3% of Pearl City workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Hardship is low by national standards: 5.8% of Pearl City, HI residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
Remote work covers 9.1% of Pearl City workers, under the midpoint for reporting cities.
39% of Pearl City adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Pearl City 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 (Honolulu County): Pearl City'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
Pearl City's poverty rate of 5.8% runs 53% below the tracked-city average, the most notable of the economic figures Areazine tracks here. Median rent runs 50% above average too, at $2,316/mo.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 5.8% -53% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 2.6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 39% |
| Work From Home | 9.1% |
| Public Transit | 2.3% |
By the Numbers
Health Profile 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.
2026-03-KonaStorm alone generated 244 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 Pearl City?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Pearl City right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-PEARL-CITY · Pearl City
Pearl City: 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 Pearl City; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Hawaii state hubs · Methodology
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Cities nationwide with a comparable poverty or income figure 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Pearl City, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (5.8% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($118,112 here).
Compare Pearl City 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.
Cities Close By 8
Using Pearl City'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 Pearl City 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 Pearl City 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.