Hawaii cities and towns

This directory lists every place the US Census Bureau tabulates in Hawaii, ranked from the largest to the smallest by population. Incorporated cities, towns and villages appear alongside census-designated places (CDPs) — unincorporated communities that have no local government of their own but are counted separately because they have a recognised name and settled population. The suffix in each name ("city", "town", "village", "CDP") is the Census legal/statistical description, which is why you will see entries such as "Urban Honolulu CDP".

The largest place in Hawaii is Urban Honolulu CDP with 346,323 residents, and the 163 places on this page hold 1,407,113 people between them. Median household income across the listed places runs from $21,546 to $188,750, and median home values range from $107,500 to $2,000,001 — a spread that shows how much local housing markets diverge inside a single state.

Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates, which average survey responses over sixty months. That averaging is what makes small towns measurable at all, but it also means the numbers describe the period as a whole rather than today. Blank cells are estimates the Census suppressed because the local sample was too small to publish reliably. Select any place to open its full profile with affordability ratios, poverty and homeownership rates, and links to nearby communities of similar size.

Hawaii splits between a handful of population centres — 49% of its 1,407,113 counted residents live in the ten largest places — and a long tail of smaller communities. 2 places pass 50,000 residents, while 39 sit below a thousand. The median row holds just 3,049 residents. At that scale margins of error widen sharply, and a single large household or seasonal population can shift a median.

Housing is the defining pressure in Hawaii. The median place here posts a home value of $743,600 against a household income of $89,637 — a price-to-income ratio of 8.3, well past the national 3.9. High local incomes do not close that gap. Median gross rent runs $1,895 including utilities, or about 25% of median household income annually.

The internal range is wide but not exceptional: $132,645 at the ninetieth percentile against $55,903 at the tenth, a 2.37× gap. At the edges, Makena CDP tops the list at $188,750 and Tiki Gardens CDP anchors the bottom at $21,546.

Coverage is close to complete: only 6 of 163 rows show a blank where the Census suppressed an estimate for sample-size reasons. The rest are published five-year values, averaged over sixty months of responses.

How many places does Hawaii have? 163 appear in the current federal tabulation, counting incorporated cities, towns and villages together with census-designated places — unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. The legal suffix in each name is the Census description, which is how two communities can share a name.

Which Hawaii row should I compare mine against? Pick places within roughly the same population band. In a state this spread out, size drives the housing and income figures more than region does.

How current is this? Every figure comes from the American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year release published by the US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates. It reflects the full survey window rather than a single date, and it is the most recent vintage available for places this small.