Makaha Valley, HI population, income and ZIP codes

Makaha Valley CDP is a very small community in Hawaii, with 161 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #157 of 163 ranked by population — larger than 3% of them. The median age here is 46.6 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Makaha Valley CDP earn a median of $161,000 a year, 105% above the national figure of $78,538 and 75% 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 11.8% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Makaha Valley CDP is valued at $1,636,400, 439.4% above the national figure and 113% above the $768,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. 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. 90% 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 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. With 161 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Makaha Valley CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Makaha Valley CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.