City safety & data profile
WaipioHI
Waipio, HI is a 12K-resident city in Honolulu County with a median household income of $109,877.
Honolulu County, Hawaii. Federal health, economic, and safety indicators for Waipio, drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, CDC PLACES, and CMS Hospital Compare. Waipio has a population larger than 11% of the 4,640 U.S. cities Areazine tracks, a median home value of $749,500, and 5 hospitals serving the surrounding area.
- 12K
- Population (place)
- Bottom 12%
- By size
- $109,877
- Median income (place)
- $749,500
- Median home (place)
- 5.7%
- Poverty rate (place)
The read on Waipio
Waipio posts a median household income higher than 77% of U.S. cities Areazine tracks, where 5 hospitals serve the Waipio area.
- Top 23%
- by median income, US cities
- 5
- hospitals in & near Waipio
Composite score · Waipio, HI
70/100
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.
Compare against every tracked city: Healthiest Cities in America (health outcomes only) · Community Wellbeing Cities (this page's blended composite).
Where Waipio income ranks nationally
Median household income vs. every place Areazine profiles (place-level ACS)
$109,877 Top 23% higher than 77% 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 Waipio, HI beyond the headline numbers
Waipio sits inside Honolulu County, Hawaii, at roughly 21.42°N, -158.00°W. Population 11,674, $109,877 median household income. Median home value $749,500, median rent $2,219. Poverty rate 5.7%, read against that income figure since two cities on the same median can differ underneath it.
5 hospitals in/around Waipio (nearest 7.4 mi away), 3.8/5 avg rating, 5 with an ER. Climate: 71.9°F annual average, 64.1" precipitation.
Among the CDC measures on this page, short sleep duration departs furthest from its peer median: 48.4% in Waipio, the highest-prevalence quarter of the 3,852 cities reporting that measure.
The median home in Waipio costs around 6.8 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.
At 45.9 years, Waipio's median age is in the oldest quarter of reporting cities.
$2,219/month is the median rent in Waipio, HI, placing it in the priciest quarter of reporting cities; housing cost is doing real work against the household budget here.
2.4% of Waipio workers commute by public transit, a larger share than at least three quarters of reporting cities.
Waipio's labor market runs tight: 2.8% unemployment, in the lowest quarter of reporting cities.
Hardship is low by national standards: 5.7% of Waipio, HI residents live below the poverty line, in the least-affected quarter of the 3,890 cities reporting a rate.
Only 8.1% of Waipio workers report working from home, the lowest quarter of reporting cities -- an economy still built around showing up somewhere.
29.3% of Waipio 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 Waipio 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): Waipio'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 Waipio's economic profile: poverty rate at 5.7%, 54% below the average across tracked places. A second figure worth noting: median rent at $2,219/mo, 44% above the tracked-city average.
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
| Median Rent | |
| Poverty Rate | 5.7% -54% vs avg |
| Unemployment | 2.8% |
| Bachelor's Degree+ | 29.3% |
| Work From Home | 8.1% |
| Public Transit | 2.4% |
Population
Health Profile 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.
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 Waipio?
No area-tagged alerts are on record for Waipio right now. New federal and counterpart-agency notices still land in the site feed as agencies publish them.
City alert dispatch desk
Sheet HI-WAIPIO · Waipio
Waipio: 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 Waipio; 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 Waipio, both outside Hawaii so the neighborhoods are not the geographic nearby list below.
Similar poverty rate
Nearest place-level ACS poverty rates outside HI (5.7% here).
Similar median income
Nearest place-level ACS median household incomes outside HI ($109,877 here).
Compare Waipio 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 Waipio'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 Waipio 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 Waipio 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.