City safety & data profile
Royal KuniaHI
Royal Kunia, HI is a 15K-resident city in Honolulu County with a median household income of $135,361.
Honolulu County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Royal Kunia, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Royal Kunia has a population larger than 25% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $862,400, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 15K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 26%
- By size
- $135,361
- Median income (place)
- $862,400
- Median home (place)
- 4.7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Royal Kunia
Royal Kunia posts a median household income higher than 89% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Royal Kunia area.
- Top 11%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Royal Kunia
Composite score · Royal Kunia, HI
77/100
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.
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.
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 Royal Kunia income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$135,361 Top 11% higher than 89% 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 Royal Kunia, HI beyond the headline numbers
Royal Kunia sits inside Honolulu County, Hawaii, at roughly 21.39°N, -158.03°W. Population 14,525, $135,361 median household income. Median home value $862,400, median rent $2,921. Poverty rate 4.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Royal Kunia (nearest 9.1 mi away), 3.8/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER. Climate: 75.3°F annual average, 17" precipitation.
4.8% of Royal Kunia workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
$2,921/month is the median rent in Royal Kunia, HI, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
Among the CDC measures on this page, short sleep duration departs furthest from its peer median: 48% in Royal Kunia, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.
The median home in Royal Kunia costs around 6.4 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 42.9 years, Royal Kunia's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
Hardship is low by national standards: 4.7% of Royal Kunia, HI residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
Only 5.9% of Royal Kunia workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Unemployment in Royal Kunia sits at 6%, above the midpoint of reporting cities.
32.8% of Royal Kunia adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Sources: U.S. Census ACS, CDC PLACES, CMS Hospital Compare, plus live alerts for Royal Kunia 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.
10-Year Trends 2013–2024
County-level trend (Honolulu County): Royal Kunia'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
The clearest outlier in Royal Kunia's numbers is median rent: $2,921/mo, which is 90% above what's typical across the tracked-city set. Poverty rate runs 62% below average too, at 4.7%.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 4.7% -62% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 6% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 32.8% |
| Work From Home | 5.9% |
| Public Transit | 4.8% |
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.
NFIP Flood Claim History
FEMA NFIP, county-level866 flood insurance claims have been filed in Honolulu County since 2016, with $44.8M paid out by the NFIP.
The largest single contributor was 2026-03-KonaStorm, accounting for 244 claims.
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 Royal Kunia?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Royal Kunia right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-ROYAL-KUNIA · Royal Kunia
Royal Kunia: 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 Royal Kunia; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Hawaii state hubs · Methodology
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Nationwide cities with similar poverty or income 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Royal Kunia, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (4.7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($135,361 here).
Compare Royal Kunia 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.
Nearby Places 8
What to do with Royal Kunia's numbers
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 Royal Kunia area before relying on national headlines. Check your area
- Income and poverty rate tell different stories, two places sharing a median can still diverge sharply on poverty.
- Compare Royal Kunia against Hawaii peers on any ranking lens. Explore Hawaii
U.S. Census ACS supplies the place-level population and economics figures (income, home value, poverty, education); CDC PLACES supplies health; hospital counts reflect nearby facilities. County-level trends carry their own label.
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.