Metro area · Hawaii

Urban Honolulu, HI metro area

Urban Honolulu, HI is a metropolitan area of 1 county in Hawaii, home to 988,703 residents. Urban Honolulu, HI metro area has a quality-of-life score of 86 out of 100 (very high), ranking #132 of 925 US metro and micro areas. Among metro and micro areas based in Hawaii it ranks #2 of 4. It ranks best on depression (low), traffic deaths (low) and firearm deaths (low). It ranks worst on distance to an Amtrak station (high), severe housing problems (high) and home price to income ratio (high).

86Very high
Quality-of-life score
#132 of 925 metro and micro areas
Hawaii
#2 of 4 in HI
Population
988,703 (2025)
Land area
601 mi²
Density
1,645.7 /mi²
CBSA code
46520

Percentile-based score (100 is the best in the country) from 65 of 80 indicators, with the default “Explorer” weights.

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Location of Urban Honolulu, HI metro area

Scores by category

Each category averages its indicators' percentile scores among US metro and micro areas.

  • Safety87#119/924
  • Economy93#64/925
  • Housing2#906/925
  • Health98#24/925
  • Healthcare96#36/923
  • Environment—
  • Education89#103/925
  • Infrastructure85#141/925
  • Community36#594/925
  • Leisure & amenities71#267/925

Strengths · Weaknesses

Indicators where Urban Honolulu, HI metro area ranks highest and lowest among US metro and micro areas (score = percentile, 100 = best).

Strengths

Weaknesses

What changed in five years

How each measure moved between two periods about five years apart, read against whether more or less is better, the published margin of error and the same change in other places.

Metro and micro areas like Urban Honolulu, HI metro area five years ago that improved

The places whose measures looked most like those of Urban Honolulu, HI metro area in the earlier period, ranked by how many measures improved beyond the margin of error, minus how many declined. A comparison of published data, not a forecast and not advice.

Who lives here

Age, race and education of residents, from the American Community Survey. Shares are of all residents (age), residents of every origin (race) or adults 25 and over (education).

Income

How household income is spread, not just the middle: each bar is the share of households in that income range.

Homes

Who owns and who rents, what homes cost, and what the housing stock looks like.

Getting to work

How workers travel to their job and how long it takes them.

Jobs and pay

What the largest occupations here pay, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey.

Local businesses

Employer businesses and sole proprietors by industry, per resident and against the state and the nation. Counts of businesses next to counts of people, not a measure of demand.

Federal contract spending

Federal grants & assistance

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

Counties in Urban Honolulu, HI

Whole counties, as the U.S. Office of Management and Budget delineates the area. Federal spending below is the exact sum of these counties.

  1. Honolulu CountyCentral county86988,703

Principal cities

The cities the area is named for.

  1. Urban HonoluluPrincipal city345,482

Largest cities and towns

By population, for places with most of their residents in the area.

  1. Urban Honolulu345,482
  2. East Honolulu51,360
  3. Pearl City44,547
  4. Waipahu40,482
  5. Kailua39,640
  6. Kaneohe37,355
  7. Mililani Town27,668
  8. Ewa Gentry26,563
  9. Kapolei22,232
  10. Mililani Mauka21,278
  11. Makakilo20,735
  12. Wahiawa17,996
  13. Ocean Pointe17,085
  14. Schofield Barracks16,270
  15. Halawa14,385
  16. Ewa Beach14,376
  17. Royal Kunia13,555
  18. Waimalu13,061
  19. Waianae12,918
  20. Nanakuli12,383
  21. Maili11,570
  22. Kaneohe Base10,919
  23. Waipio10,870
  24. Makaha10,066

Other metro and micro areas in Hawaii

Areas based in Hawaii, best score first.

Similar metro and micro areas

Closest indicator profiles across the country (no model: score distances).

Data and sources

Latest published value of each indicator; periods differ by source. Values flagged by their publisher are marked.

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