Work & commute · Aiea

Work & commute in Aiea, HI

Most working residents leave Aiea for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (31%), Kailua (5%) and East Honolulu (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14 of 643 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 629 Aiea residents head out of town to work, 14 work right here, and 1,917 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Aiea.

629live here, work elsewhere

14live and work here

1,917work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Aiea goes to work

Urban Honolulu6.5 mi away

31%198

Kailua12.2 mi away

5%31

East Honolulu14.9 mi away

5%30

Hilo218 mi away

4%24

Kailua173.2 mi away

4%23

Kahului100.7 mi away

2%16

Pearl City2.4 mi away

2%15

Aiea (in town)right here

2%14

Kihei105.1 mi away

2%14

Waianae17.2 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%265

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Aiea commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

43%

28%

29%

43%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

0%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Aiea is a job hub

3.00jobs per working resident

A job hub

3.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Aiea are

1,931 jobs are based in Aiea. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Aiea’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Aiea

1,931 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)77%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Aiea residents hold

643 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+55%

Jobs based in Aiea, 2013 → 2023: 1,246 → 1,931. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.