Paauilo, HI population, income and ZIP codes

Paauilo CDP is a very small community in Hawaii, with 634 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #138 of 163 ranked by population — larger than 15% of them. The median age here is 42.5 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. 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 Paauilo CDP earn a median of $65,750 a year, 16.3% below the national figure of $78,538 and 29% below the $92,062 median for the 124 Hawaii cities we cover. This figure covers the household, not the worker: two people on ordinary wages at one address outrank a single professional in the same table. Poverty reaches 12.6% of residents here, above the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Paauilo CDP is valued at $361,100, 19% above the national figure and 53% below the $768,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $1,117 a month, 20.6% below the national figure, or roughly $13,404 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.4% 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 5.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 82.4% 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. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

With 634 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Paauilo CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

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.