ZIP code 96742

ZIP 96742 is a very small community in Kalawao County, Hawaii, with 43 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #93 of 97 ranked by population — larger than 4% of them. The median age here is 39.9 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 ZIP 96742 earn a median of $86,250 a year, 9.8% above the national figure of $78,538. Household income here is measured before tax and pooled across everyone at the address, which is why it reads higher than typical individual earnings in the same area. Poverty reaches 31.7% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in ZIP 96742 is valued at not published, while median gross rent runs $1,300 a month, 7.5% below the national figure, or roughly $15,600 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 18.1% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. 0% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, a renter-majority market, so rent figures matter more here than the home-value line. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Median income runs above the national figure while poverty also runs above it — a split distribution, not a uniformly comfortable place. Averages hide that; the two numbers together do not. With 43 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare ZIP 96742 against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld home value for ZIP 96742 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.

ZIP 96742 is tabulated inside Kalawao County, Hawaii, one of 1 ZIP areas the Census publishes for that county and 97 across Hawaii. This is one of the smallest tabulated ZIP areas in the state, the kind of rural route where a single subdivision or farm cluster accounts for most addresses. County assignment on this page follows the largest share of the ZIP's land area, which matters where a delivery route crosses a county line: mail addressed to 96742 can be handled by a post office in a neighbouring county even though the tabulation area is filed here.

Against its own county, 96742 reports a median household income of $86,250, close to the $86,250 county median, and 6% below the $91,429 typical HI ZIP. Owner-occupied homes are valued at a median of not published. Rent is reported gross — the contract amount plus tenant-paid utilities — at $1,300 a month, which is why it reads higher than the advertised rent on a listing for the same unit.

Hawaii charges 4% statewide, and local governments overlapping 96742 may add county, city or special-district levies on top. We publish the state floor for this ZIP rather than guessing a combined figure, because ZIP boundaries and taxing-district boundaries were drawn for different purposes and do not line up.

Everything above comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates for this ZIP Code Tabulation Area, with sales tax rates traced to the state revenue agency. Five-year estimates pool sixty months of responses, so they are stable enough to compare 96742 with its neighbours but always trail the current year, and any value the Census suppressed for sample size is shown as unpublished rather than filled in with a model.