Urban Honolulu

City Commute Profile

Urban Honolulu, HI

Where Urban Honolulu’s 256,199 resident workers go each day — 75.4% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Pearl City.

HawaiiLODES 2023 data
67
Commute Score

67 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Urban Honolulu at a glance
Employed Residents
256,199
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
9.7mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
75.4%
Share working within the area
Work from home
9.8%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Pearl City
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Urban Honolulu proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Urban Honolulu commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Urban Honolulu

256,199 commutes, one dot at a time

Urban Honolulu

Where 256,199 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Urban Honolulu, by worker count.

1Urban Honolulu0.0 mi193,105
2Pearl City9.7 mi4,614
3Kapolei14.4 mi4,314
4Waipahu11.7 mi3,965
5Kaneohe7.3 mi3,898
6Waimalu8.1 mi3,854
7East Honolulu8.3 mi3,531
8Kailua8.9 mi3,466

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Urban Honolulu.

1Urban Honolulu0.0 mi193,105
2East Honolulu8.3 mi25,071
3Kailua8.9 mi14,877
4Pearl City9.7 mi13,576
5Wahiawa17.2 mi6,504
6Kahului93.7 mi3,913
7Halawa6.4 mi2,775
8Kihei97.9 mi2,691

Top industries

The sectors that employ Urban Honolulu’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
EDEducational Services15.1%
AFAccommodation and Food Services12.8%
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance12.0%
RTRetail Trade7.6%
PAPublic Administration7.5%
TRTransportation and Warehousing6.5%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services6.3%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services6.3%
COConstruction4.6%

Urban Honolulu city profile

Who lives in Urban Honolulu — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
345,482
Median age
43.0yrs
Median household income
$86,504
Median home value
$843,400
Median gross rent
$1,823/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
41.5%
Poverty rate
11.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

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