East Honolulu, HI population, income and ZIP codes

East Honolulu CDP is a small city in Hawaii, with 50,961 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #2 of 163 ranked by population — larger than 99% of them. The median age here is 49.3 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in East Honolulu CDP earn a median of $158,398 a year, 101.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 72% above the $92,062 median for the 124 Hawaii cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 4.1% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in East Honolulu CDP is valued at $1,172,300, 286.4% above the national figure and 53% above the $768,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $3,249 a month, 131.1% above the national figure, or roughly $38,988 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 24.6% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is within the standard affordability guideline. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 7.4×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 83.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

Home values sit at 7.4× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere.

All values below were released by the Census for this exact geography, with no gap-filling on our side. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.