City safety & data profile
WahiawaHI
Wahiawa, HI is a 18K-resident city in Honolulu County with a median household income of $87,143.
Honolulu County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Wahiawa, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Wahiawa has a population larger than 37% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $806,200, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 18K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 38%
- By size
- $87,143
- Median income (place)
- $806,200
- Median home (place)
- 16.3%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Wahiawa
Wahiawa posts a median household income higher than 57% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Wahiawa area.
- Top 43%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Wahiawa
Composite score · Wahiawa, HI
45/100
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.
Compare against every tracked city: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Wahiawa income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$87,143 Top 43% higher than 57% 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 Wahiawa, HI beyond the headline numbers
Wahiawa sits inside Honolulu County, Hawaii, at roughly 21.50°N, -158.02°W. Population 17,821, $87,143 median household income. Median home value $806,200, median rent $1,546. Poverty rate 16.3%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Wahiawa (nearest 11.2 mi away), 4/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER. Climate: 71.9°F annual average, 64.1" precipitation.
The median home in Wahiawa costs around 9.3 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: 50.2% in Wahiawa, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.
5% of Wahiawa workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Only 6.1% of Wahiawa workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
Poverty in Wahiawa, HI stands at 16.3%, above the midpoint of reporting cities. A median income can look comfortable while a share this size sits well beneath it, which is why the two figures belong together.
22.1% of Wahiawa adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
Unemployment in Wahiawa sits at 3.7%, below the midpoint of reporting cities.
Median rent in Wahiawa, HI runs $1,546/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 Wahiawa 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): Wahiawa'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 Wahiawa's numbers is poverty rate: 16.3%, which is 31% above what's typical across the tracked-city set. Median household income also diverges: $87,143, 3% below average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 16.3% +31% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 3.7% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 22.1% |
| Work From Home | 6.1% |
| Public Transit | 5% |
Headcount
Health at a Glance 15 measures
Health Indicators
Preventive Care
Other Measures
Nearest 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-levelHonolulu County has recorded 866 National Flood Insurance Program claims totaling $44.8M in payouts since 2016.
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 Wahiawa?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Wahiawa right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-WAHIAWA · Wahiawa
Wahiawa: 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 Wahiawa; untagged NOAA county warnings may still appear in the site feed. Browse Hawaii state hubs · Methodology
Questions & Answers 9
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Similar poverty or income, nationwide 8
Two ACS-derived peer sets for Wahiawa, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (16.3% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($87,143 here).
Compare Wahiawa 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 Wahiawa'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 Wahiawa 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 Wahiawa 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.