Waihee-Waiehu, HI population, income and ZIP codes

Waihee-Waiehu CDP is a mid-size town in Hawaii, with 11,369 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #30 of 163 ranked by population — larger than 82% of them. The median age here is 38.6 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 Waihee-Waiehu CDP earn a median of $128,266 a year, 63.3% above the national figure of $78,538 and 39% above 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 8.4% of residents here, below the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Waihee-Waiehu CDP is valued at $740,300, 144% above the national figure and 4% below the $768,200 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,224 a month, 58.2% above the national figure, or roughly $26,688 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 20.8% 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 5.8×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 86.7% 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. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

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.