Haiku-Pauwela, HI population, income and ZIP codes

Haiku-Pauwela CDP is a mid-size town in Hawaii, with 9,290 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #36 of 163 ranked by population — larger than 78% of them. The median age here is 38.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly younger profile than the country as a whole. 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 Haiku-Pauwela CDP earn a median of $99,520 a year, 26.7% above the national figure of $78,538 and 8% above the $92,062 median for the 124 Hawaii cities we cover. Median household income counts every pre-tax dollar arriving at an address — wages, self-employment, Social Security, pensions, interest and public assistance — for everyone living there, so multi-earner households pull the figure up even where individual pay is modest. Poverty reaches 9.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Haiku-Pauwela CDP is valued at $1,019,400, 236% above the national figure and 33% above the $768,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,341 a month, 66.5% above the national figure, or roughly $28,092 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 28.2% 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 10.2×, 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. 65.9% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. 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 10.2× 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.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. 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.