Every workday, about 120 people come to Kaloko for work
Most working residents leave Kaloko for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Urban Honolulu (30%), Kailua (21%) and Kahaluu-Keauhou (6%). Half commute less than 71 miles.
What kind of work town is Kaloko?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Where Kaloko’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Kaloko clocks in
Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 80 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 124 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Hawaii
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kaloko workers work from home, vs 10% across Hawaii. Their commute is the hallway.
Half of Kaloko commutes less than 71 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 57% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Kaloko makes things: 46% of its jobs are in goods
125 jobs are based in Kaloko. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Kaloko’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kaloko, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 125. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Kaloko and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Kaiminani (6%). Darker towns draw more of Kaloko’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Kaloko
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kaloko, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.